Starlight Carnival Cast and Crew | Dreamqueen Immersive

Cast

Julia Valles is an artist with a love for movement, and a flair for spinning through the air as a pole dancer and aerialist. She has been an aerial instructor and performer in various circus, stage, and private productions since 2019, and continues to explore and evolve in her creative expression. She is thrilled to join the talented crew of Dreamqueen’s new and exciting project, The Starlight Carnival!

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.

Lois Warwick is a seasoned actor with over 10 years of experience in the entertainment industry, known for her dedication, versatility, and passion for the craft. Throughout her career, she has cultivated a reputation for bringing depth and authenticity to every role, whether in theater, television, or film.
Her commitment to continuous growth is evident in their ability to transform into a wide array of characters, from complex dramatic roles, to charming support leads.
With a diverse body of work and a career built on dedication and skill, Lois continues to make a lasting impact in the world of entertainment, always striving to challenge herself and elevate the stories she brings to life.

Fiona (she/her) is an actor, dancer, and improviser originally from Portland, Oregon. She holds a BFA in Acting from UBC. Recent credits include The Last Resort with Dreamqueen Immersive, 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.

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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.

Emma Ciprian (she/they) is a queer artist and filmmaker with a diverse creative background and artist skillset stemming from a life growing up in theatre and the performing arts.
Her recent notable performance credits include Nostalgia + Nostalgia (dir. Katie
Gherasim, rEvolver Festival) and The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Bras Burlesque
(dir. Fairlith Harvey). Her recent directorial film credits include La Casa di Nonna (short
film, 2024) and What My Heart Wanted (short film, 2023), with WMHW running the festival
circuit in events such as NFFTY and the Whistler Film Festival + Summit. This is their
first time in an immersive production and they are excited to be portraying the role of A
Capella Cannonbolt alongside the cast of Mr. Nowhere’s Starlight Carnival!
She has recently graduated from Simon Fraser University with her Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree as a Film Production major.

Carl Leatherz/Anuar is a bisexual performer who finds pleasure in performing for people in as many ways as possible. With experience on many different types of stages, he looks forward to entertaining folks as the host of this intriguing soiree. Anuar has worked with Fairlith in past productions such as The Last Resort, The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert, and The Neverland Night Circus and can't wait to bring her next immersive vision to life! He can normally be found singing live on stages on Davie Street in a variety of Drag Shows or on various burlesque stages under the moniker of Carl Leatherz.

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 their production of The Last Resort, he 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 the series Dandyland for Telus Storyhive, and wrote and directed the short film The Ministry of Unusual Happenings. He's also been known to host a burlesque show here and there, work as a technical producer at the TED Talks, and is one of the founding members of the Vancouver ska band The Wavebirds though they have since parted ways. He lives in Coquitlam with his partner, their sister, the family dog and cat as well as the ghost of their previous cat.

Claire Davis is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and creative producer with a background in installation and poetic multimedia art. Her work often intersects interactive spaces, performance, and poetic expression, exploring how memory, identity, and time shape experience. She recently performed as The Star in The Last Resort (Dreamqueen Collective, now Dreamqueen Immersive Theatre), a site-specific piece serving equal parts surreal seductive narrative and pergatorial cabaret. Alongside theatre work, she engages in public-facing poetic projects—often with a typewriter in tow—focused on connection, place, and everyday observation. Claire brings mischievous physicality to the role of the Bat Clown, playfully disrupting the veneer of ego and impostor syndrome. Ever teasing, ever probing, this figure invites audiences into a dance of contradiction—both mocking and embracing the demands of the human condition.

Claire deBruyn (she/her) is a local theatre artist, producer, and dancer. Recent credits include: The Last Resort (Dreamqueen Collective), Bog Body (Foolish Productions), and I, Claudia (Guild Hall). 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. She hopes you enjoy the show!

Crew

A graduate of New York’s AMDA, Fairlith has been sharing her imagination, directing, writing, and performing professionally for almost 20 years. Passionate about experiential design and immersive art, she creates opportunities for audiences to lose themselves along with her.

Selected favourite creations: Kill the Ripper, The Last Resort, Slumber Here, Alice in Glitterland, The Neverland Night Circus, A Nude Hope, How I Met My Mother: A Back to the Future Parody Musical. Too many to list! Founded Dreamqueen Immersive (YVR), Geekenders (YVR), and Company 1B (NYC). She has the proud distinction of being the most successful producer in East Vancouver's Rio Theatre's history.

She's so happy to be sharing this production with two family members and dedicates the show to them and the courage they give her: her fiance Andy, to whom she is getting married during the run of the show, and her honourary dad, Gord, who will be giving her away.

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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.) After a lengthy absence, Andy was thrilled to return to theatre-making as the co-writer and co-director of “The Last Resort.” He holds both an Applied Degree and Diploma from Red Deer College for Motion Picture Arts and Theatre Acting, respectively.

Talia Bordallo Mico is an animator, drag artist and performer from Spain and currently residing in Vancouver, British Columbia. As an animation industry professional, Talia has worked in productions by clients like Disney, Dreamworks and Netflix. Talia holds a double Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art and Media by the Universidad Europea de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and a Bachelor's Degree in Character Animation by The Animation Workshop (Viborg, Denmark).

Talia started their performing journey through the “Drag 101” program at the Passion & Performance dance studio in 2023 and since then has participated in multiple local dance productions and events, both as a student of P&P and their drag king persona “Conrad de Goya”. As Conrad, Talia explores themes like humour in the macabre, neurodivergency and gender expression through numbers involving hand-made outfits and props. Conrad has also been part of events such as Drag Attack at the Rio theatre, Willow’s Wild Things at Junction and IGNITE! 2024 at the Cultch, Historic Theatre, and Dreamqueen's The Last Resort, as The Hermit.

Keagan is a Studio 58 Graduate. Living with a love of and passion for lighting. As a gender-fluid non-
binary designer they love working with masculine, feminine and other aspects of themselves to add to the creative process. As a designer they paint the performers and their environments with light, working to build an atmosphere that pulls the audience in.

Recent design credits include: The Last Resort (Dreamqueen Immersive), Campbell Bay Music Festival ‘23, Midsummer Night’s Dream, You Can’t Take It With You (SAMC Theatre), Kill the Ripper (Geekenders & Affair of Honor), Circus Gala (Circus3), Living Room (Acrovert), Crisis on Planet Z ( Monster Theatre), Six of One (Studio 58), Neverland Night Circus (Geekenders), Trans Scripts (Zee Zee & Frank Theatre), The 70’s Show (Vancouver Men’s Chorus), Centurions (Centurion Project), Alice in Glitterland (Geekenders), Centurions (The Centurions Project), The 70’s Show (Vancouver Men’s Chorus), Awkward Hug (O Albatross), Illicit (Illicit Productions) Four Play (Studio 58), How I Met My Mother (Geekenders), Who Killed Gertrude Crump? (Monster), Lion in the Streets (Resonance Theatre), Alma (East Van Opera), Peter Pan (Mulgrave), and Award winning Fighting Season (Hardline & Bleeding Heart).

They love playing with the emotions of llights, and how lighting effects the tone and reality of what is being poured on stage. Playing with the psychology of lighting and colour theory.

Favourite recent stage management credits include: “Alice’s Wonderland,” “Super,” “Journey,” “Polaris,” and “Mosaic” with Triumph Acrobatics; “West Side Story” with CTORA; “The Ballad of Georges Boivin” with Bouche Collective; “Monster: Medusa’s Musical,” “Ver·i·si·mil·i·tude,” and “Hysteria” with Direct Theatre Collective; “YES!? AND?!” and “Eviction Conniption” with David C. Jones; “Qi Pao” and “Totally ‘80s” with Tynan Productions; “Smash Up!,” “Dim Sum Diaries: Second Helpings,” and “The Untold Legend of Imogen Flight” with Fabulist Theatre; “The Old Maid and the Thief” and “Don Carlo” with Heroic Opera; “The Freedom of the City,” “Under Milk Wood,” “Cauldron,” and “Changed Utterly” with Vital Spark; “Troika: A Trio of Chekhov Comedies,” “No Man’s Land,” “Look Back in Anger,” and “An Inspector Calls” with Smoking Gun Collective; “Mozart and Her Brother” with Geniusettes Collective; “Finishing” with SUM Gallery Projects; “Beirut” with Clever Bird Entertainment; “Gianni Schicchi” with Opera Mariposa; “Unsettled” and “Being Animal” with Theatre Terrific; “Jerusalem,” "Suppliant Women," "Nell Gwynn," and "Pitmen Painters" with United Players; “Mystery at Greenfingers,” "Comfort Cottages," "Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon," "Three Tall Women," "The Miser," "The Mousetrap," and "Relatively Speaking." with Western Gold; "Into the Woods," "The Merry Widow," "Pirates of Penzance," and "Iolanthe" with NSLOS; "WYSPA" and "Amber" with Gen Hot; “City of Angels” with PIT Collective; “Alma” with EastVan Opera; and “Any Night” with Pacific Theatre
Upcoming Projects: “The Ballad of Georges Boivin”(remount) with Bouche Collective, “Gertrude & Alice” with Western Gold

Growing up in dance followed by a nerd-first dive into cosplay, Alexandra developed a passion for visual storytelling through style and texture and colour. She is a film industry costumer by day and oddball maker / shameless cat lady by sleepless night. Having previously collaborated on Alice in Glitterland and The Last Resort, she is thrilled to be along on another adventure helping realise the vision of a Dreamqueen project.

Michael's inspiration takes circus performer uniforms from the late 1800s as well as today, adding Gothic motifs and creature-esque design elements rooted in bat anatomy.

Undergoing 5 years of fashion design and technology training at KPU, and using garment creation techniques from his experience in bespoke suiting,

Michael is ecstatic to bring you his debut in costume design; Bat Clown!

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 challenge and interrupt colonial artistic hegemony, as well as creating a bespoke queer spiritual practice enacted through performance.

Oriana has been working in the realms of theatre costume and wigs for over 15 years. Born and raised in Vancouver she is a graduate of Capilano University’s Costuming for Stage and Screen program and Aveda Institute. Oriana was the Head Dresser for Arts Club for a number of years and has worked backstage and in shops for Bard on the Beach, Gateway Theatre, East Van Panto, Broadway Across Canada, Vancouver Opera, Virgin Voyages, and many others.

Stefanie Lott (she/her) is an emerging costume and lighting designer. She began her theatre journey in São Paulo, Brazil, where she designed and created costumes, masks, and props for a variety of productions. Now she has the privilege to work, learn and grow on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver, BC.

She creates imaginative, emotionally grounded designs that blend the fantastical with the everyday. She is a graduate from Studio 58’s Production Program and has designed for Guilty as Fin, Fly, Love (Studio 58), and Curral Grande (Teatro Escola Macunaíma, Brazil) among others.

She has also worked with Bard on the Beach in the production department since 2023 and served on wardrobe crews for international tours including Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour and Madonna’s Celebration Tour. Her work is rooted in collaboration, symbolism, and a belief that no idea is too crazy or abstract to be brought to life on stage.

Band

Chris Feige is a pianist and composer with more than twenty years’ experience performing, composing, and arranging. His diverse performance history includes numerous large and small classical and jazz ensembles, new music ensembles, cover bands including Toronto's JacksonLIVE and Vancouver's Phazers On Stun, and most recently a performance at Carnegie Hall with West Vancouver’s Illuminate Choral Ensemble. Chris is excited to be taking part in his first production with Dreamqueen Immersive.

Bio coming soon!

Sarah has played the clarinet & bass clarinet since fifth grade, and after taking several years off to become an adult and do boring adult things she is thrilled to be back in the musical saddle to join this band of misfits. She is also the Production Manager for the Carnival (her skill at boring adult things is relevant even here!) and one of the Producers for Dreamqueen Immersive.

Corvyn is thrilled to be increasingly involved with local theatre, after whetting their appetite for acting/singing/dancing in 15 performances with The Broadway Chorus, as well as appearing in several Fabulist Theatre projects and assisting with Dreamqueen's recent (and soon to return!) tropical purgatory, The Last Resort. After learning to bedazzle, crochet, and play instruments diagetically, they are looking forward to further opportunities to make magic happen!