"Split" A play by Michael Weller: Tickets

The Director

Born in Colchester, England, Katherine has always had a strong passion for the arts. Through being introduced initially with the operatic arts in Germany as a child, she grew to love the stage and the many possibilities of play that it provided. Katherine trained in England at The University of Reading, Berkshire and The Vancouver Film School. She has had many opportunities to work on a variety of stage performances including Macbeth and has also created a few short films of her own. This will be Katherine's directorial debut. Katherine is expecting her first child, with husband Scott Folkers, in March and was excited to take on this wonderful and exciting challenge whilst being pregnant!

Claire Linsday

Since completing her training at the Canadian College of the Performing Arts, Claire has kept busy as a professional performer. She came to Vancouver 3 years ago to further pursue her stage dreams and has since enjoyed performing in various independent projects. Some favourite shows include The Importance of Being Ernest (UBC Players Club), The Rocky Horror Show (Wicked Awesome Theatre) and This Is A Play (On The Fence Theatre). She is thrilled to be a part of Unspoken Voices’ production of Split by Michael Weller, a play that conveys the emotional highs and lows of marriage with humour and respect.

Louisa O'Keane

Louisa O'Keane was born in Dublin Ireland and grew up in Burlington Ontario. She has been singing since she could talk and dancing since she could walk. This proud drama nerd studied at the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts in Toronto and has been in over 40 productions to date. Some of her favorite roles include Gertrude McFuzz in 'Seussical the Musical' for which she won Outstanding lead actress in a musical, and Edith in 'The Pirates of Penzance'. This past year you may have seen her in 'Tony and Tinas Wedding', The Giggle Dam's 'Dam Canadian Christmas Show' and Opera Appassionata's 'Serenades at Simmons'. This will be the first non singing role she has ever attempted. She is looking very forward to a wonderful run with this great group.

Heidi Dorman

A graduate of the full time program at The William Davis Centre For Actors Study, Heidi has performed in various productions in Vancouver over the last few years. Her most notable stage performances include the feisty Effie Grey in the United Players production of the Countess and most recently as Stella Tabret in the North Vancouver Community Players’ “The Sacred Flame”. Bucking the trend of some of her past period pieces, Heidi is thrilled that in “Split” she gets to wear a catsuit rather than a corset.