Matthew TenBruggencate
Matthew TenBruggencate is a co-artistic head and a founding member of Theatre by the River, whose members he would gladly be marooned with on a desert island. Past acting credits include Saint Joan, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The History of Theatre, Comedy of Errors, The Elfin Knight (TBTR) Cherry Docs, Talk (WJT) Stripped Down Romeo and Juliet (SIR) The Skriker, The Misadventurous Perils of Pauline(Echo Theatre) Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure (Tom-Tom) Love You Forever (PTE) The History of Manitoba, A Christmas Carol (MTC) and The Appleseed Girl (Sarasvati). Directing credits include Oedipus Rex, The Comedy of Errors (TBTR) and Desire Under the Elms (UWTSA - O'Neillfest).
Mel Marginet
Mel Marginet, a graduate of the Honours program at the UofW, is a co-founder/artistic head of Theatre by the River. She has performed in many theatre productions around the city. Favourites include: Saint Joan, The Bush Ladies, Oedipus Rex, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The History of Theatre (Theatre by the River), The Skriker (Echo Theatre), Ugly Ducks, Pretty Swans (Fringe 2006), A Midsummer Night's Dream (UofW) and Eternal O (Fringe 2005). See her on the screen in Absurd Machine's Aegri Somnia, as well as Randy Guest's The Lady in Grey. She's excited to appear this season on Less Than Kind.
Brent Hirose
Brent Hirose is a local, actor, writer, director and singer. His TBTR credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona, Saint Joan and Billy Bishop Goes To War. Other credits include Bloodless (White Rabbit Productions), Arcadia (Theatre Incarnate), and Miss Saigon (Rainbow Stage). As a voice actor he has lent his talents to several projects, including Noonbory and the Super Seven, Kung Fu Dino Posse and Space Knights. He is currently writing several plays, including a new one-man show set to tour on the 2010 Fringe Festival circuit.
James Firby
James Firby is a graduate of the U of W theatre program (BAH) and is quite at home on stage. His acting roles include multiple roles in Saint Joan, Oedipus Rex and Two Gentlemen of Verona, One Last Thing at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Elfin Knight, Comedy of Errors and Churchillfest's Owners. He has crossed swords in the Manitoba Opera's Otello following his appearance in U of W's StoppardFest production of Enter A Free Man. In addition to performing, he is often delighted to be called upon for the design and creation of props, sets, posters and whatnot.
Lisa Nelson
Lisa Nelson is a founding company member of TBTR. She brings her acting, stage managing as well as her costuming talents to this talented group. Lisa has been involved in all but three of TBTR's productions. You last saw her with TBTR playing Susanna Moodie in Molly Thom's The Bush Ladies in the 2008 Winnipeg Fringe Festival. Favorite Acting credits include: Pericles, Better Living (UofW), Oedipus Rex, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors (TBTR), PACT (Lost in a Box). Favorite Stage Managing Credits include: Encore (TPM) Sunday Father (WJT) Ruddigore, Mikado, Gondoliers, Yeoman of the Guard, Pirates of Penzance (G&S), StreetZone (Sarasvati)
Derek Leenhouts
Derek Leenhouts is a local actor who has appeared with Theatre By The River in Oedipus Rex, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and A Comedy of Errors; He was also the music director for Billy Bishop Goes To War. Other acting credits include Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare (White Rabbit) Company, Assassins (Dry Cold), Pride and Prejudice (MTC), Paper Jack (Title Pending) The Full Monty (Rainbow Stage), Yeomen of the Guard (Wpg. G&S Soc.), and Lucrezia Borgia (CMTDG - Fringe 2007).
Rod Beilfuss
Since moving to Winnipeg from Brazil, in 2001, Rod Beilfuss has graduated from the University of Winnipeg with a B.A. Honours in Theatre & Film, and appeared in quite a few shows around this lovely town. Some of his most recent credits include The Merchant of Venice and Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Ruins), Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Saint Joan (TBTR), Winter's Tale (Tom-Tom Theatre) and the commedia dell'arte pieces Triumph of Love and The Mirror (Foolish Wit). Directorial projects include Resurrection Blues, Enter a Free Man and The Duck Variations (MTC Playwrights Festivals) and Billy Bishop Goes to War (TBTR). Rod also lends his voice to a couple of characters in the animated series Noonbory & the Super 7.
Megan Herkert
Megan Herkert is excited to join TBTR as a full member, having worked with the company on Saint Joan, The Bush Ladies and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. In her final session of the University of Winnipeg's Honors Theatre and Film Program, Megan performed in The Glass Menagerie and King Lear. With an interest also in film and television, Megan has appeared in House Party, The Haunting in Connecticut and Less Than Kind.
Jessica Freundl
Jessica Freundl (guest artist) is honoured to work for the Theatre by the River for the second time. Jessica is in her last year of Theatre study at the University of Winnipeg and has just finished her job as Head Electrician for Monsieur D'eon is a Woman. She is graduating with Stage Management and Production degrees. Stage Managing credits include: Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan SOW), Seussical (Brenda Gorlic's Young Stars), The Bush Ladies (TBTR), Pericles (U of W), and The Distance from Here (U of W)
Debbie Patterson
Debbie Patterson (guest artist - Habitat) is a Winnipeg actor, playwright, director and musician. She is an alumnus of the National Theatre School of Canada and the former Artistic Director of the Popular Theatre Alliance of Manitoba. She is a founding member of Shakespeare in the Ruins and has been involved in most of SIR's productions, recently directing Taming of the Shrew. Favourite roles have included Titania, the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and Jenny in Threepenny Opera. Her musical Head, about the final days of Anne Boleyn was produced in 2006 by SIR to a completely sold out run. Her other plays include two one woman shows: Pandora's Squeezebox: a sex love power pleasure cabaret, and Wide Open Beaver: Uncut Canadian Content and Candy From a Baby, which she wrote for her husband and two children to perform and which won Best of the Fest at the 2006 Winnipeg Fringe. She lives in Winnipeg with her partner Arne MacPherson and their two children Gislina and Solmund
Michael Duggan
Michael Duggan (guest artist - Habitat, One Good Marriage, The Bush Ladies Tour) prefers life backstage.
