Amanda Spottiswoode,
Executive Director
Born in England, Amanda has an extensive and varied background in professional and community theatre.She has acted in more than 30 productions since 1977 with a variety of different companies.
Currently Executive Director of Graffiti, Amanda was closely involved with Caravan Theatre in Armstrong, B.C., for 15 years. She is a co-founder of Graffiti Theatre.
Between 1993 and 1996 she studied practical theatre training at the University of B.C. Department of Theatre.
She has also studied acting for film. For a number of years Amanda was involved in the Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance and the Vancouver Cultural Alliance.
Libby Mason,
Artistic Director
Libby has been working as a theatre artist for over 30 years, initially in the UK, where she was an actor, writer, teacher and director, most notably the Artistic Director of London’s Theatre Centre. She immigrated to Winnipeg in 1993, where she directed a number of productions for Prairie Theatre Exchange and co- founded Shakespeare in the Red, a company dedicated to working on Shakespeare’s plays with First Nations’ actors and students.
Since moving to the West Coast she has directed two outdoor Shakespeare productions (As You Like It for the Victoria Shakespeare Society and The Tempest for Graffiti Theatre). She has also directed a number of productions for the Guild Theatre in Whitehorse (including The Glass Menagerie and Wit). Her teaching includes work for The University of Victoria Theatre Department, The Canadian College of Performing Arts and Kaleidoscope Theatre. She currently teaches Theatre Arts at the Lester B Pearson College of the Pacific.
David Baughan,
Associate Director
Born in England, David has a background as a theatre stage manager, production manager, lighting designer, and photographer.
Stage management credits in BC include numerous productions for TheatreOne, Graffiti Theatre, and Chemainus Theatre Festival (CTF). He is currently the production stage manager for Saint Joan and South Pacific at CTF. He was the production manager for Graffiti Theatre’s The Tempest last summer.
David has facilitated many workshops on the island to encourage local people to improve their technical skills.
David’s photographs have been exhibited in many European and North American cities. His photographs are held in the Musée national d’art moderne collection in Paris.
The board of directors
Carol Grier, Gail Beattie, Diane Copeland-Thomas, Jason Donaldson, Alan Hughes and Bill Curtin.
