Address to the Jury
ABOUT US
Cole J Alvis - Director
Originally from rural Alberta, Cole’s
directing credits include Balls by Rob
Salerno (Ten Foot Pole Productions),
The Kente Cloth by Tawiah M'carthy
in the SummerWorks Theatre
Festival (plural productions),
CHAT on the solo-stage at the
Rhubarb! Festival (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre), Auto-Da-Fe by Tennesse Williams (Red Deer College), a reading of The Dreamer Examines His Pillow by John Patrick Shanley and a new play workshop of There You Go And Here You Are by Natalia Goodwin (Theatre Best/Before). Cole is the Co-Artistic Director of (plural productions) and holds a BFA in Acting from York University.
William Poulin - Actor
William Poulin appeared in recent
episodes of network TV shows
Flashpoint and The Listener. He is
looking forward to his first turn on a
Fringe Festival stage.
Mr. Poulin's acting credentials include
roles across the whole gamut of
modern and classical theatre. He has played murderers and innocent men, rogues, knaves and fools, sinners and believers. All of which is good preparation for the ambiguous role of John Matthews, who is either a murderer twice over or the victim of tunnel-vision policing and a media feeding frenzy.
David Hughes - Playwright
Address to the Jury is Mr. Hughes'
first play. His résumé includes the
improbable combination of an MA in
English (thesis on Chaucer),
apprenticeship as a violin-
maker, international patents in
laser-welding and wireless
communications technologies and successive careers as a tax lawyer and co-founder and senior officer of public and private businesses.
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