Brian Bast
Costume Designer
An Actor, Director, Designer and Writer. Brian has been designing costumes for Alberta Opera for the last 3 years on their productions of The Frog Prince and Cinderella: for which he received an Edmonton Sterling nomination for best costumes. Brian has designed for many theatres in Edmonton and around Western Canada including Shadow Theatres, Theatre Network, Red Deer College, Grande Prairie Live Theatre, Theatre Yes, Sound and Fury Theatre and Theatre Prospero. Brian has been the resident Costume Designer for Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts for the last 8 years. A few of his favourite productions he has designed include: Ten x Two, Suessical: The Musical, The Weir, Thoroughly Modern Millie, My Name is Rachel Corrie, As You Like It, The Music Man, Macbeth, Little Shop of Horrors, The Mercy Seat and My Fair Lady.
Brian is also a multiple Sterling Award nominee for theatre design and winner for Costume Design for Shadow Theatres 2006 production of 10 x 2. As well as the recipient of the 2007 Beta Sigma Phi Theatre Arts Scholarship Endowment
Ellie Heath
Princess Gloriana
Ellie Heath is an actress based out of Edmonton. She graduated the Theatre Arts program at Grant MacEwan College in 2007. Since then, she has become a vagabond drama queen, travelling across Canada to act. This past year took her to Canmore and Niagara Falls to sing and dance and make funnies in "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change," and then she drove through B.C. with Alberta Opera for a tiny spring tour. She also had an awesome summer in Edmonton, lapping it up at Nextfest in a fun show called Surprise! and then playing a crazy butterfly in Anime the Play. This year, she will once again grace the stages of Niagara Falls at Christmas time. Then she will cross the country in the springtime to play Princess Gloriana in Alberta Opera's B.C. tour of the Frog Prince. Travelling and acting and playing a princess... What more could a girl ask for?
Marissa Kochanski
Set Designer
Marissa opened the Fringe season as set/costume designer and co-creator of Firefly Theatre's production of Duck Duck Bang. Cinderella is Marissa's second design for Alberta Opera; last year she joined the team as set designer for The Frog Prince.
