[WAM!Van] All female cast tackling Paper SERIES by David Yee at UBC

[Joanna Chiu]

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From: Sarah Hicks <sarahjanehicks at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 8:10 AM
Subject: All female cast tackling Paper SERIES by David Yee at UBC
To: "wamvancouver at gmail.com" <wamvancouver at gmail.com>


Hi there!

I was hoping you might be able to share this. A group of female students
(and a male co-director) are putting on Paper SERIES by David Yee. This
small group of UBC students, with the support of their department is doing
it as an extracurricular project in their spare time - each of them is
acting as well as filling some other role to get the production up and
running. The interesting thing about it is that they’re an all female cast.
They’ve adapted some of the roles to be females, but have left some of them
the same to be played by women. We think this sends an important message
about gender equality in Theatre and Film. What we want to say is “We know
that the majority of shows are written about male characters. And we know
that you think you need to pick those shows to bring in audiences and
ticket sales. But we’re showing you that even if you do choose those shows,
you can cast women (or anyone on the gender spectrum) in them, playing
women OR men, and your show will still f***ing rock!”

We’re putting the show on out of our own interest in these issues, and our
own desire to keep acting in our free time, so our target audience is not
paying viewers but likeminded people. The types of people we have invited
are Gender Studies professors, Theatre professors, and students. We are
hoping you can get the word out to people outside of UBC!

Here is a more comprehensive write up on our project:

Eight members of the intermediate year of the UBC BFA Acting program have
taken it upon themselves to stage Paper SERIES by David Yee and an exerpt
from See Bob Run by Daniel MacIvor, as an extracurricular project. In their
productions of the aforementioned plays all characters - including male
characters - will be played by female acting students. Some male characters
they have adapted to be female characters, and others they have left as
men. Rowan Denis, Sachi Nisbet, Sophia Niewerth, Sarah Jane, Stefanie
Michaud, and Cassandra Phillips-Grande each play the lead in one short play
in the Paper SERIES, while the others fill supporting roles in each play.
Tai Amy Grauman plays the lead in an excerpt from See Bob Run. The
students, with a great deal of help from the Faculty of Theatre and Film,
Theatre at UBC!, Soo Min Park, and production students Linda Yang and Elaine
Yan, each took on various roles above and beyond their ones as actors to
create this final production.

Paper SERIES -
Directors: Tai Amy Grauman and Riley Bugaresti
Rowan Denis: Assistant Director
Sachi Nisbet: Sound Design
Stefanie Michaud: Set Design/Finances
Cassandra Phillips-Grande: Costume Design
Sophia Niewerth: Props
Sarah Jane: Promotion/Marketing
Stage Manager: Linda Yang
Assistant Stage Manager: Elaine Yan

"[Paper SERIES is] a series of monologues that imaginatively explore six
lives and their curious connections to something as inconsequential as a
piece of paper."
- Playwrights Canada Press

See Bob Run -
Director: Soo Min Park

"Bob is on the road. Bob is on the run. But from what, or whom, is she
running? Follow Bob as she hops from car to car telling her story to
unsuspecting drivers as she tries to put her life in the rear-view mirror.
Will she make it to her destination? And what will she find when she gets
there? Find out in the critically adored [See Bob Run]"
- Playwrights Canada Press

Info about date/time/ticket pricing is on the poster here:


Thanks so much!

Sarah Jane
Intermediate Year BFA Acting Student
UBC Faculty of Theatre and Film



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