BIOS
Melody Anderson - Playwright
Acclaimed mask-maker and designer Melody Anderson has received Jessie Awards for her work on The Number 14 for Axis Theatre (collective creation and design), Cultural Metaphors for Pangaea Arts, and The Beauty Machine and Peacemaker for Green Thumb Theatre.
Her masks are used as teaching tools in acting workshops throughout North America.
Peter Anderson - Playwright
In addition to being one of the original creators (along with his wife Melody Anderson) of the international hit The Number 14, Peter has appeared in and helped create Flying Blind, Only Birds and Fools Fly, Identical Islands, and Peter and the Wolf (with the VSO) for Axis Theatre.
Peter’s credits as a playwright include over a dozen plays for the Caravan Farm Theatre, including The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw, Coyotes’ Christmas, A Sleigh-Ride Christmas Carol, The Shepherds’ Play, Mystery Cycle (Creation, Nativity, Passion) co-produced with Western Canada Theatre, Horseplay (co-written with Phil Savath), Bull by the Horns, Animal Farm, Law of the Land, The Coyotes. Other plays include Rattle in the Dash, El Crocodor and Lysistrata.
He has received six Jessie awards in Vancouver for his work as a playwright and actor.
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