Western Gold Theatre

Western Gold Theatre was founded in 1994 by the distinguished Canadian actor and director Joy Coghill to establish a community of senior performing artists. The company aims to produce and present outstanding professional theatre that expands horizons and enriches the lives of mature artists and their audiences. Western Gold Theatre also offers powerful role modeling, creative opportunity and active engagement to a rapidly growing senior population as well as providing inspiration to diverse generations of theatre lovers. Bringing Western Gold Theatre into your community is a chance to see some of Vancouver's most illustrious performers, the names of whom are instantly recognizable to anyone even vaguely familiar with the development of professional theatre in Canada.

Western Gold's seminal production was a creative exploration entitled The Dream Project which was the subject of a CBC documentary, The Courage to Dream, and which culminated in a workshop production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other productions include Alice: A Play With Music by John Lazarus presented at the Arts Club Theatre, Strangers Among Us by Aaron Bushkowsky which won two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards and was presented at the Roundhouse Theatre, and One Last Kiss, also by Bushkowsky, which was co-produced by the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre and Victoria's Belfry Theatre. Our most recent production was Old Goriot, a co-production with U.B.C. Theatre and the Push Festival.

Staff

• Colleen Winton, Artistic Director
• Allyson McGrane, Manager
• Chris May, Bookings

Board of Directors

• Robert Watts, CA, President
• Joseph Shaw, Secretary/Treasurer
• Thor Arngrim, Director
• Frank Lindsay, Director
• Severin (Sev) Morin, Director
• Nuala Woodham, Director
• Frank Lindsay, Director
• Pamela Hawthorn, Director
• Anna Hagan, Director
• Don Mowatt, Director