Mr. Temperance/Production Manager/Production Design

Casey Por

Casey Por is a multidisciplinary artist who's been performing all around the Fraser Valley and beyond since 2006. A former student of the theatre program at the University of the Fraser Valley, Casey moved on to complete the Television and Broadcast program at BCIT in 2011. Recently he's been working with Dreamqueen Immersive on the Board of Directors and appeared in their production of Mr. Nowhere's Disappearing Reappearing Starlight Carnival.  In recent years he also presented his short stories The Long Dark and In Exchange for Services Rendered at the Evergreen Cultural Center as part of their Storyteller Series, was Director of Photography for Dandyland for Telus Storyhive, and wrote and directed the short film The Ministry of Unusual Happenings.  In film he works as a Video Coordinator, recently completing work on Amazon's Carrie due out in 2026.  He also works as a technical producer at the TED Talks, recently attending the TED Countdown House in Belem Brazil in support of the COP30 Climate Conference. He also works as Technical Director for Bonus Stage Vancouver, helping to organize their many video game themed events.  He lives in Coquitlam with his partner, their sister, their dog and cat.

Some day he dreams of a day off.

Queen of Cups/Choreography

Julia Valles

Julia Valles is an artist with widespread creative interests in movement and visual arts.

She has a background in pole/aerial arts and has been an aerial instructor and performer since 2019. Additionally, she has been developing skills in sewing, costume design, and props for artistic projects. Ongoing creative explorations in dance and theatre led her to Dreamqueen’s enchanting immersive productions with recent performances in Mr. Nowhere’s Disappearing Reappearing Starlight Carnival and The Last Resort. With equal parts compassion, whimsy, and eldritch horror, she is thrilled to reprise her role as the Queen of Cups in The Last Resort!

Luna

Elaine Thrash

Elaine Thrash is a Brazilian actress, singer, dancer, writer, and model.
With more than 15 years of a multifaceted experience, she's led several plays and short films,
hosted a web TV show for three years and was the frontwoman in some Heavy Metal bands, all before deciding to start over in another country and in another language.

She is the author of the books From Depression To Creation and How To Be A Good Husband (both in Portuguese Da Depressão à Criação and Como Ser Um Bom Marido).
 

Some awards include Best Actress in Prime Time or Feast for Vultures short film at Guaru Fantastico Film Festival, and Best Actress in several plays at CIAVIP Cultural theatre company. She was and still is the lead actress in the play ‘Cleopatra, Queen of Exile’ a play by R.D. Simpson.

Elaine also speaks Portuguese, French, and a bit of Spanish.

First Lover/Choreography

Fiona Jenkins

Fiona (she/her) is an actor, dancer, and improviser originally from Portland, Oregon. She holds a BFA in Acting from UBC. Recent credits include Cats at Theatre Under the Stars; Ellen in Wolves are Coming for You (Stone’s Throw at Pacific Theatre); for UBC: Oil (May), The Greeks (Hecuba/Electra). Other credits include: Kayleen in Gruesome Playground Injuries (Just B Productions); Macduff in Macbeth (The Scottish Slay); and Eurydice in Eurydice (Oregon Children's Theatre). She has created and co-directed a Young Adult Dystopian improv show called Year 2099 for CSz Portland, and has danced with Bodyvox’s JAG company.

The Magician /Writer/Director/ Choreography/Producer/

Andy Garland

Andy Garland is a playwright, poet and screenwriter currently residing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some of his previous works include "A Year Off," (Special Merit Prize, Canadian National Playwriting Competition) "And Then, The Lights Went Out," Sea of Green," (Winner of the 2009 Uprising National Playwriting Competition,) and JUICE (Honourable Mention, BC Playwriting Competition.) He holds both an Applied Degree and Diploma from Red Deer College for Motion Picture Arts and Theatre Acting, respectively.

Second Lover/Choreography

Cleo Halls

Cleo Halls is a bold and bendy movement artist specializing in dance, pole, and aerial hoop. They grew up dancing and performing in musical theatre, and graduated from MacEwan University’s Theatre Arts Program in 2012. Shortly after graduating, they moved to Vancouver to pursue dance and movement professionally. Seeking professional level dance training, they auditioned for a training program called The Dance Initiative, where they trained for two years in ballet, contemporary, jazz, and heels/cabaret. Most recently, their love of movement, endless curiosity, and commitment to discovering what their body is capable of compelled them to begin training in circus arts. They completed The Provincial Performance Preparatory Program based out of CircusWest in Vancouver, where they trained extensively in aerial and ground based circus disciplines.

Over the past decade, Cleo has performed in a myriad of wild and wacky capacities, including engagements as a can-can dancer, a gogo dancer, a backup dancer for an ABBA tribute band, an alien performing aerial hoop, and a jellyfish wearing pointe shoes. They've been especially involved in the local heels and cabaret scene and routinely perform as a dancer and aerialist at corporate events, in nightlife, and in local cabaret shows.

Death/Choreography

Claire Elizabeth

She/Her

Social Media

Claire deBruyn (she/her) is a local theatre artist, producer, social media content creator, and dancer. Claire first started doing social media for Bramble Theatre Collective and has since branched out to supporting other artists, shows, and companies with their marketing goals! She delights in puzzling out how to best express a show’s energy through marketing, finding ways to connect audiences with shows they will love, and building a platform for artists to give behind-the-scenes insights into their shows and artistic processes. Claire is also a co-founder of Bramble Theatre Collective, an emerging theatre company focused on creating opportunities and community for people seeking artistic growth. In her spare time you may find her playing cooperative board games, planning themed parties, or cuddling other people's pets. Recent credits include: Starlight Carnival (Acting, Dreamqueen Collective); The Last Resort (Acting, Dreamqueen Collective), Shared Space (Producer, Bramble Theatre Collective); Bog Body (Acting, Foolish Productions), and I, Claudia (Acting, Guild Hall).

The Hanged Man

Andrew Wade

Andrew Wade is an award-winning actor, playwright, and stage manager, and works as Executive Director for the Richmond Arts Coalition, an arts advocacy non-profit organization. A 2011 University of Victoria graduate (BFA in Acting, BA in Writing), he won the 2011 Vancouver Young Playwright's Competition for The Romantics and has written and performed his own original works in twenty-seven festivals across Canada, including The Most Honest Man in The World, The Hatter, William vs The World, and Hullaboo and The End of Everything. Wade co-created and wrote book + lyrics for TITUS! The Light and Delightful Musical Comedy of Titus Andronicus, which received a five star review from the Vancouver Sun and won Vancouver Fringe’s ‘Pick of the Fringe’. Insta: @Andrewdewade . TikTok: @adelphis . www.andrewwade.ca .

The Devil

Mina Delic

Mina Delić was born and raised in Serbia and moved to Canada in her early teens. She showed a flair for the dramatics from an early age, performing various skits at family gatherings and always being involved with school plays, dance, and improv. Her training continued through adulthood, having attended a Theatre Arts program in college and becoming a part of Red. Collective, a theatre collective in Ontario focusing on documentary style plays such as The Matthew Shepard Story and The Triangle Factory Fire Project. After being a part of a few independent films and shorts she decided to move to Vancouver, where she studied at Railtown Actor's studio and at Artéfakt Acting Studio. Wanting to expand her portfolio, she became a part of a number of stage productions and interactive performances, including burlesque, performance art, and improv theatre, while still being a part of student and independent films. Her focus this year is on the screen but she will always make time for her first love, the stage. She is so excited to be working with such a talented and diverse cast and crew on The Last Resort, and can't wait to entertain, and maybe even frighten you, just a little.

The Fool

Julian Legere

Born and currently living on occupied Coast Salish territories, Julian is a bisexual/genderqueer artist, community organizer, and cultural worker of European and Acadian settler ancestry. As a creator, writer, and performer he works across disciplines including theatre, poetry, drag, burlesque, kink, dance, and contemporary performance. His work involves using queerness to interrupt colonial artistic hegemony, as well as enacting a bespoke queer spiritual practice through performance. He is thrilled to finally be appearing in a play again for the first time since 2019. 

The Star

Claire Davis

Claire Davis is excited to be making their debut with The Dreamqueen Collective after many years with their first home of theatre, The Broadway Chorus Society. As a multidisciplinary artist and writer, she recently presented The Community Chronicles Zine Project at the CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival. Claire is a published theatre reviewer, a conceptual installation artist, and a poet when she is not traipsing through forests pretending to look at slugs when tired.

King of Cups

Stephen Blakley

Bio coming soon!

Page of Cups

Emma Ciprian

(shey/they) is a queer artist and filmmaker with a diverse creative background and artistic skillset
stemming from a life growing up in theatre and the performing arts.
Her recent notable performance credits include A Capella Cannonbolt in Mr. Nowhere’s
Disappearing Reappearing Starlight Carnival (dirs. Fairlith & Andy Garland and Casey
Por, Vancouver Fringe Festival) and Nostalgia + Nostalgia (dir. Katie Gherasim, rEvolver
Festival). Her recent directorial film credits include La Casa di Nonna (2025 short film)
and What My Heart Wanted (2023 short film), with both films running their own festival
circuits. She has recently graduated from Simon Fraser University with her Bachelor of
Fine Arts degree as a Film Production major, and currently spends her days working in
production at a local animation studio.
@emmaciprian on Instagram

The Hermit

Lauren Ross

Bio coming soon!

Ace of Wands/Choreography

Daniel Dresser

Daniel has been performing on circus and burlesque stages across Vancouver for the past 8 years. He specializes in creating custom props, costumes and choreography to enable acts that blend juggling, dance and burlesque. Some recent highlights for him include playing a juggling pirate in The Neverland Night Circus at the 2021 Vancouver Fringe, building a ridiculously complex robot costume for a burlesque act in the show Too Hoth To Handle, and performing an act blending hip-hop movements with contact juggling at Vancouver Circus Festival Gala in 2022.

Judgement/Choreography

Daniel Cote

Bio coming soon!