THE TEAM
Green Fools Theatre year round staff includes Co-Artistic Directors Dean Bareham and Jennie Esdale, Administrator Elaine Weryshko, Marketing Co-Ordinator Johanne Deeleuw and Booking Co-Ordinator Stacy Clark. We are governed by a volunteer Board of Directors: Larry Brunton, President, Oliver Klonaris, Treasurer, Allison Moore, Vice President, Renee Daurie, Secretary, Rick Hilton, Member.
Green Fools Theatre engages dozens of artists each year as teachers, performers, musicians, writers and directors on a per project basis. Some of the outstanding artists the work with Green Fools on an ongoing basis are David Rhymer, Jamie Konchak, Vi An Diep, Eric Rose, Rebecca Devi, Flying Bob, Keith Murray, Sarah Malick, Susan Faulkner, Rory Dolinski, Jana Sharon, Adrian Young, Laryssa Yanchuk.
DEAN BAREHAM: Artistic Director
Dean began his studies as a sculpture major and performance artist at the Alberta College of Art & Design. He then attended the Dell’ Arte School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California. Today, he delights audiences around the globe with his clown characters, both on and off of stilts.
Dean’s alter ego, Gustavo the Impossiblist, is infamous world-wide. He has performed solo and with the Fools in Europe, South America, Macedonia, New Zealand, Africa, the US and Canada.
Dean is an accomplished physical theatre instructor and has taught workshops at numerous schools and universities, including the Dell’ Arte School and Cirque du Soleil. He teaches youth-at-risk in Northern Canadian communities and is proud to be a part of the Winnipeg CAMPP (Circus And Magic Partnership Program) as well as Calgary’s own Trickster Project. Both camps are aligned with Children’s Festivals, and target inner city and reservation-based youth. Recently, Dean taught circus camp to 150 impoverished students in Lesotho, Africa.
When not performing or teaching, you’ll find Dean creating, designing, building and painting puppets, masks, props and sets for Green Fools projects. He is also the lead singer and ukulele player for the Calgary-based band The Philmoronic Orchestra.
Dean was recently named one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40.
JENNIE ESDALE: C0-Artistic Director
Jennie is Co-Artistic Director of Green Fools Theatre and is a performer, designer, writer and director with the company. Her artistic work includes graphic design, costume design, the design and creation of many of our stilt roving characters & puppets, as well as directing and / or writing many of our spectacle and theatre productions. She is also a creator and performer of many of our touring and spectacle shows and animated productions.
Jennie also works with several leading and independent Canadian theatre companies including: Theatre Calgary, The National Arts Centre, Citadel Theatre, Sage Theatre, Ghost River Theatre, Theatre Network, Shadow Theatre, Stage West, generic theatre, Lunchbox Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Mammilian Diving Reflex and Teatro La Quindicino.
Jennie has received a Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama for her performance in Ghost River Theatre’s Confessions of a Paperboy, as well as a Betty Mitchell Award Nomination for her work as Isabel in Sage Theatres’ Lion in the Streets and a Elizabeth Sterling Hayes Nomination for her performance in Fringe Theatre Adventures production of Night Light.
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