Don works in many areas of the theatre including acting, directing, set design/construction, production and industrial design, radio plays He has worked with the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival as coordinator of the Playwrights Staged Reading Series as well as many Ottawa theatre companies.

Acting credits include: The Seagull, Poor Superman, A Live Bird in its Jaws and That Summer. Directing credits include: Marcel Pursued by the Hounds, Cherry Docs and many plays with the Algonquin Theatre Arts Program.

Don received his B.A. from Queen’s University. While studying theatre he occasionally worked as an IATSE stagehand. He was fortunate enough to have taken a course in German Expressionist Drama, an experience which influences his work today.

Phone: 1-613-727-4723 ext. # 5489
Email: laflamd@algonquincollege.com

Lynn Cox
Lynn has been a member of Ottawa’s professional theatre community for the past 16 years. She has worked extensively in many areas of the field including: producing, direction, stage management, technical direction, scenic painting, lighting design, set design and makeup.

Lynn worked with the National Arts Centre Theatre and Atelier for over seven years in a variety of positions, but primarily as a director, designer, scenic painter technician. She has also worked with the Great Canadian Theatre Company on numerous shows. Lynn works in both official languages as a designer and has done the lighting for many shows by Théâtre de la Catapulte at the Nouvelle Scène.

For many years Lynn was the Technical Coordinator of the Arts Court Theatre, while also working as a professor of Technical Theatre and Design at the University of Ottawa and Memorial University in Newfoundland. She recently joined the Algonquin College Theatre Arts program. After completing a B.A. Honours in Theatre at the University of Ottawa, she returned to complete a second degree in Education. Lynn is a member of Canadian Actors Equity and works with IATSE as a scenic painter.
Phone: 1-613-727-4723 ext #5776
Email: coxl@algonquincollege.com

Teri Rata Loretto

Teri has a BA in Arts with a concentration in Theatre at the University of Ottawa.

An 11-month stint with the Caravan Stage Barge found Teri on a tall ship doing environmental theatre for audiences along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States and Canada in 1998. In 1999 and 2000 she toured Canada and the U.S. with Toronto-based, Tanglewood Family Entertainment, singing in the live musical version of such children’s’ favourites as Franklin the Turtle and Elliot Moose.

Teri has since become a full member of The New Ottawa Repertory Theatre and is helping set up the New Playwrights Series at Arts Court. She has also been seen with The Company of Fools and Eddie May Murder Mysteries and in various local independent films. Teri played Cinna in Third Wall Theatre’s Julius Caesar and had the lead in this company’s productions of Murder in the Cathedral and The Brother’s Menechmus.

Teri is more frequently seen onstage with NORT (On Any Monday Night) or in various local musical groups (Suicide Kings, The Connection Band, Marika, Trevor Finlay).

Phone: 1-613-727-4723 ext. #5865
Email: lorettt@algonquincollege.com

John Koensgen

John has been acting and directing for over 27 years. He has appeared in over 40 shows at the Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC), over 20 with the National Arts Centre and if you lump those in with all the other shows he’s been in, the total comes to over 90. He has been the Fight Director for well over 100 productions and has taught at the National Theatre School and Dawson College. Directing credits include: GCTC’s production of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl.

Mary Ellis

Mary has worked extensively in theatre in the Ottawa area for many years. She is currently in rehearsal for Relative Good, a new play by David Gow at the Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC). Some favourite roles include Penelope in The Odyssey for the NAC, Sylvia in Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, and Elizabeth in Better Living, both at GCTC, and Gillian in Marriage Play with Ottawa Lunchbox Theatre. Mary does a lot of voice-over work around town, has done film and video, and also teaches at the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama. She is delighted to be returning to Algonquin again.