All Team Members

Eugene Stickland

Eugene Stickland

Instructor

Eugene Stickland has been one of Canada’s most prolific playwrights for three decades. At the same time, he has taught playwriting workshops at universities and theatres throughout the world, from Calgary to Singapore to Australia.

Jason Long

Jason Long

Instructor

Jason has been writing for film and theatre in Canada for over six hundred  years. He’s co-written four feature films, written and directed a couple of shorts, and has worked tirelessly for four plus years to convince an incredibly skittish neighbourhood cat to like him.

Frances Ewington

Frances Ewington

Instructor

Frances completed her Associate and Licentiate diplomas in Speech Arts and Drama with a focus on voice production from the Mount Royal Conservatory in 1997. She was awarded the
“Love of Literature” Scholarship and received the highest mark attainable on her Associate Pedagogy.

Sally Cacic

Sally Cacic

Studio Coordinator & Instructor

Sally Cacic is a West Australian actor, director and producer of Slavic descent. Exposed to music and performing arts at a young age as great niece to famed Australian bass-baritone Bruce Martin, Sally first trained in classical ballet and jazz piano before beginning her actor training in later years.

Christiane Hirt

Christiane Hirt

Co-Founder

Throughout a CHprofessional career spanning over thirty years, Christiane has studied extensively in Vancouver, LA and is an Alumni of New York’s prestigious, HB Studio. As Co-Founder of Company of Rogues Actors’ Studio (est. 1993)

Joe-Norman Shaw

Joe-Norman Shaw

Co-Founder

Joe-Norman Shaw is Studio Director and Co-Founder of Company of Rogues Actors Studio and Artistic Director of Rogues Theatre.

Aaron Coates

Aaron Coates

Instructor

Aaron is a director, actor, playwright, and teacher. He studied acting at Mount Royal College and at École Philippe Gaulier in Paris. Aaron co-founded Trepan Theatre