Dean Constable

Instructor:
Technical Aspects of Theatre

Dean Constable has been a professional stage manager for over 10 years. Originally from P.E.I., Dean studied Technical Theatre at Studio 58 in Vancouver. He is currently Production Stage Manager at the Charlottetown Festival, where he has called Anne of Green Gables, Hairspray! and The Buddy Holly Story and has worked on numerous other productions in his eight years with the Festival. He was Production Stage Manager for P.E.I. Day for the 2010 Olympic Medal Ceremonies in Vancouver. Dean has toured across North America with a variety of productions, from a one woman play to large scale musicals. In Canada, Dean has had the opportunity to work across the country with theatre companies such as Neptune Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, The Citadel Theatre, Roseneath Theatre, and Axis Theatre.

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Jade Lipton

Instructor:
Dance Performance: Introduction and Intermediate

Jade Lipton is a graduate of the Dance Performance Studies program at George Brown College in Toronto. Since graduating, she has performed with Toronto Rock Dance Pack, Confederation Centre Young Company, Carnival Cruise Lines and Casino Nova Scotia, to name just a few. Throughout her career she has had the opportunity to travel to many places including Japan, Mexico, Alaska and Hawaii. Jade recently returned to her home province of Prince Edward Island to become an instructor with dance umbrella. She challenges her dancers’ technical skills and encourages them to share their passion and energy for dance through movement. Jade has taught many levels of jazz and ballet and looks forward to being a part of the School of Performing Arts faculty.

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Wade Lynch

Instructor:
Acting Essential, Introduction and Intermediate Performing Arts Overview

Wade Lynch is a 15-year veteran of the Charlottetown Festival as an actor, writer and director. In 2006, he was invited to take on duties as the Associate Artistic Director for the Festival. A Vancouver native and graduate of the Performing Arts Faculty of the University of Western Washington and the Broadcast Journalism program at BCIT, he has enjoyed a 30-year career on stages all over North America.

Wade’s Festival debut was 1992’s A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline. He has since performed in Anne of Green Gables, Puttin’ on the Ritz, 18 Wheels, The Legend of the Dumbells, 8 to the Bar, Shear Madness, Stones in His Pockets, Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story and Hairspray!, among many others.
Co-creator of the Festival hit, Canada Rocks, Wade was on the creative team of the Festival Young Company’s show, Abegweit, Soul of the Island, which was performed at BC Place Stadium during the 2010 Olympics.Other recent theatre includes Annie for Neptune Theatre, Halifax; Peter Pan for Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre; Irma Vep for Calgary’s Vertigo Theatre; and Sancho in Man of Lamancha for the Drayton Festival.

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Julain Molnar

Instructor:
Voice Essentials, Introduction and Intermediate (Performing Arts Foundation)
Private Lessons:
Voice (Music Performance)

For the past 28 years Julain Molnar has been a professional performer in productions all over Canada and the United States. She has played lead roles in more than 100 shows and her theatre credits include The Phantom of the Opera, Ragtime, The Sound of Music, Into the Woods, Side by Side by Sondheim, two seasons at the Stratford Festival and 12 seasons at the Charlottetown Festival. She has won many awards for both singing and acting, received an Honours Certificate in Vocal Performance from Trinity College, UK and studied acting with the Stratford Festival Young Company. She has been teaching voice and text interpretation for 15 years and has led the vocal program for the Confederation Centre Young Company for the past 10 years.

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Jody Racicot

Instructor:
Performance Business

With over two decades of professional acting experience, Jody Racicot’s early career was spent in Ontario theatre, where he was part of the cast for Toronto's long running production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap; David French’s Jitters at the Huron Country Playhouse; Annex Theatre’s production of MacBeth;  Leah Poslun’s Theatre production of  One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest;  and Theatre Passe Muraille’s The Tyrant of Pontus. Since his film debut in the early 90s in the 20th Century Fox comedy PCU, Jody has racked up more than 50 leading and supporting roles in television and film, most recently in the 2010 comedy/western, Gunless. His performance as Dr. Zarkov in TV’s Flash Gordon earned him a Leo Award in 2008 as Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series.He has worked in major centres across Canada and can be seen or heard on television at least once a week in a movie, a television series or in a commercial.

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Peggy Reddin

Instructor:
Dance Performance: Introduction and Intermediate

Peggy Reddin is Director of Arts Education at Confederation Centre of the Arts. In 1988, she co-founded dance umbrella with Julia Sauvé and has served as its director since 1996. She is a graduate of the National Ballet School Teacher Training Program and holds a BA (Philosophy) from the University of Prince Edward Island. Ms. Reddin taught with Charlottetown Ballet Theatre, DancEast, and the Charlottetown Festival Young Company, and has directed and choreographed numerous events on the Island. She was also the project founder for Dance with D.A.W.N., an innovative dance programme for women with disabilities. In addition to her work in arts education, Ms. Reddin is very involved in the local arts community. She has worked in collaboration with Theatre PEI, the PEI Symphony, and the UPEI Music Department, among others. She has served on the boards of the PEI Council of the Arts and Culture PEI, and as a juror for the New Brunswick Arts Board and the PEI Council of the Arts

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Gaylene Carragher

Instructor:
Communication in the Arts (Performing Arts Foundation and Music Performance)

Since joining Holland College in 1997, Gaylene Carragher has held a number of teaching positions at several college locations including two campuses in China. Currently, she teaches Technical Communication in the Applied Sciences and Engineering Department at Holland College, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the University of Prince Edward Island and she operates her own consulting firm, Carragher Consulting Inc.  After receiving a Certificate in Adult Education in 1999, Gaylene earned a Bachelor’s of Education, a certificate in Business Communications, a Master’s in Education, a diploma in Corporate Etiquette and International Protocol, and a certificate in Human Resource Management, and is currently working on a Master’s of Business. She has conducted customer service training for staff and industry members, delivered continuing education courses, and served as a judge in the Prepared Speech category for The National Skills Competition.  Gaylene has edited two technical communication textbooks for Oxford University Press and was the recipient of an Award of Excellence from the Poetry Institute of Canada for her poem The Wash.

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Julia Sauvé

Instructor:
Creativity: An Introduction to Creative Thinking

Julia Sauvé, MA has been performing, teaching, and choreographing dance in Canada and the United States for the past 31 years. A co-founder of dance umbrella, she has a Bachelor's degree in Dance from SUNY Brockport and her Masters in Movement Education from Goddard College. Julia has choreographed numerous productions on Prince Edward Island and facilitates workshops on Kinesthetic Learning for a variety of educators and organizations. Most recently, Julia has created Luminosity Black Light Theatre.

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Alan Dowling

Instructor:
Music Business Introduction, Music Styles: Rock and Country
Director:
Holland College Welshmen Community Band

Alan Dowling is a music educator and drummer who has performed with Doug Riley, Measha Bruggergosman, Murray McLauchlan, Danny B and many others.He has appeared on several national CBC broadcasts for both TV and radio. After studying Music Performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Alan completed degrees in both music and mathematics from UPEI. His educational experience includes several years in the Newfoundland and Labrador public school system and over 10 years with Holland College.He is an active performer in many genres and has played and recorded drums with artists covering such styles as rock, country, pop, Celtic, jazz, classical and world music. Alan was the Doug Riley Artist for the 2010 PEI Jazz and Blues Festival and the musical director for Doug Riley tribute performances in 2007 and 2008. He performed as the onstage drummer with the Charlottetown Festival for five years and played in such box office hits as Canada Rocks, British Invasion, and Fire. Alan has earned three East Coast Music Association awards and several Music PEI awards. He founded and currently directs the Holland College Welshmen Community Concert Band which performs at public concerts, Hurricanes’ athletic events and graduations.

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Sean Ferris

Private Lessons:
Piano

A graduate of McGill University’s Bachelor of Music program, Sean Ferris completed studies in composition, experimental music and jazz improvisation. As a performer, he has had the opportunity to play jazz, blues and alternative music with many regional, national and international artists over the years and he still performs regularly with his electronic and improvisational based jazz trance funk group, OST.  An arranger, composer and producer for over 25 years, Sean's compositions have been presented internationally and include electro-acoustic music, installations, experimental music videos, avant-garde chamber and orchestral pieces as well as music for film, television, dance, and theatre. Composer for six seasons of The Food Network’s Chef at Home series, this year he was composer for Shaw Cable’s first ever web series Chef Michael’s Kitchen. Also in 2011, he was commissioned to compose the music for Mi’Kmaq Legends, a two hour theatrical presentation of Mi’Kmaq song and dance; his composition ‘The Creation’ was workshopped and performed with members of Symphony Nova Scotia and the PEI Symphony among others; and he was chosen as the 2011 Doug Riley Artist for the Charlottetown Jazz and Blues Festival.

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Donald Fraser

Instructor
Keyboard Harmony: Introduction

After earning his Bachelor’s of Music degree from Mount Allison University in 1986, Donald Fraser graduated with a Master’s of Music from the University of Toronto in 1989 with a major in Organ Performance and Musicology. Director of Music at Trinity United Church in Charlottetown for the past 19 years, he is also the Music Director of the Charlottetown Festival, since 2005, and Director of Music at Confederation Centre of the Arts. Mr. Fraser was Music Director for the 1996 East Coast Music Awards CBC Television Production broadcast on the national network. Included among his long list of credits are: freelance orchestrator and arranger for Symphony Nova Scotia; Music Director and Tour Conductor for Confederation Centre’s Anne of Green Gables production, which toured Japan in 1991; Interim Music Director at First United Church, Mississauga, Ontario; Music Director at Erindale United Church, Mississauga, Ontario; and Assistant Organist at St. George's on-the-Hill Anglican, Islington, Ontario. He is a member of the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors.

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Terry Hatty

Private Lessons:
Voice

After six years of touring America with the internationally famous band The Guess Who and releasing two albums, Terry Hatty began the next phase of his career in theatre and corporate events. His work for Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, General Motors and Abbott Pharmaceuticals among others have kept him very busy during the periods of time when he is not performing in theatrical or concert venues. He has made regular appearances at the Charlottetown Festival in productions such as Anne of Green Gables, Dracula and Fire as well as starring in roles in other Canadian cities including Toronto and Calgary. In 2005 Terry co-wrote, Canada Rocks, a musical revue celebrating the diversity and vitality of Canadian pop music. The show premiered in June of 2005 on the main stage of the Charlottetown Festival, and became the biggest selling second show in the 41 year history of the Festival. In his latest album, Dream Dogs, released in 2005, Terry moved toward the world of jazz. Most recently, he has been focusing on vocal instruction for pop, R&B, rock, and jazz stylings.

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Devin Hornby

Instructor:
Ear Training: Introduction; Ensemble: Rock and Country
Private Lessons
Bass

Devin Hornby graduated with Honours from Humber College’s Jazz Performance program and is currently working on his Bachelor of Music. Mr. Hornby’s performance experience includes Confederation Centre of the Arts Charlottetown Festival productions of The Full Monty, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Hairspray!, Christmas Blaze, and the Late Night series. With the group Celtic Blaze, he has played throughout Ontario and the Maritimes including their Live On Stage! tour, and also with the group has performed in showcases in Nashville, Tennessee, and ContactEast. For Canwest Cabaret Festival, he has performed in their production of Leonard Cohen Songbook as well as the Young Centre’s Gordon Lightfoot Songbook. Mr. Hornby’s work can be heard on Stephanie Cadmen’s Celtic Blaze recording, Ladybirds self-titled album, Chris Chambers’ It’s About Time, and Kae Sun’s Blow At The Stars.

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M.J. Mullin

Instructor:
Music Theory: Introduction
Private Lessons:
Guitar

More than 20 years of experience has made M.J. Mullin one of the most versatile guitarists around.He has played rock, blues, jazz and classical on stages from Newfoundland to Ontario and has been a member of some of the region’s most popular bands.He opened the PEI School of Guitar in 1993, which he still runs, and has become one of the most sought after guitar teachers in the province.Recent theatre credits include the Charlottetown Festival’s The Full Monty, Hairspray!, Stan Rogers - A Matter of Heart and Canada Rocks Christmas.

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Alan David White

Instructor:
Ensemble: Rock and Country
Private Lessons:
Drums

Alan David White first started playing drums in junior high and high school jazz and concert bands. He enrolled in the Humber College Music Program and studied drums with some of Canada’s top drummers, including Mark Kelso, Paul DeLong and Ted Warren.After graduating from Humber College with honours in 2007, Mr. White started playing drums professionally. Knowledgeable and functional in many different styles including jazz, Latin, Afro-Cuban, rock, funk, country, Celtic and pop music, he has performed alongside some of Canada’s finest musicians. His professional credits include several main stage productions with the Charlottetown Festival, including The Full Monty, Christmas Blaze, Christmas Rocks, and British Invasion: America Strikes Back.Internationally, Alan has entertained passengers on Celebrity Cruises of the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas.  In Charlottetown, he's performed with Thrillhouse, Big City, Cynthia MacLeod, and most currently with Groove Company.

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Julain Molnar

Instructor:
Voice Essentials, Introduction and Intermediate (Performing Arts Foundation)
Private Lessons:
Voice (Music Performance)

For the past 28 years Julain Molnar has been a professional performer in productions all over Canada and the United States. She has played lead roles in more than 100 shows and her theatre credits include The Phantom of the Opera, Ragtime, The Sound of Music, Into the Woods, Side by Side by Sondheim, two seasons at the Stratford Festival and 12 seasons at the Charlottetown Festival. She has won many awards for both singing and acting, received an Honours Certificate in Vocal Performance from Trinity College, UK and studied acting with the Stratford Festival Young Company. She has been teaching voice and text interpretation for 15 years and has led the vocal program for the Confederation Centre Young Company for the past 10 years.

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