Hello
We are a Vancouver based production company that creates and produces live performance. Collaborating with a range of professionals - from architects and engineers to musicians and actors - we reach audiences through theatre, sound, movement, the fine arts, and moving images. We use a multidisciplinary approach to engage and encourage a more present and active audience role in the performance, often taking them beyond the confines of traditional theatre. Furthermore we seek out opportunities with artists and professionals outside our immediate community, connecting our audiences with those beyond.
Current Projects
You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living
Troubled by life? Tired of death? Find out who to blame for how you feel!
Join us at the Granville Island Hotel, September 9-18, for the wellness seminar sweeping up the nation: You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living
With state-of-the-art perception analysis technology and good old-fashioned charm, our dynamic representatives will help you push your buttons. Over the course of this artful event, you will:
- recognize and stabilize your worthless parts
- quarantine and kill the unquestionably contemptible
- confront and counteract the dreams and dangerous notions that prevent you from fulfilling our goals
Get bent into shape! Get by instead! Get out of life alive not dead! With everything to soothe, you have only loss to lose. You deserve to feel all right.
You Are Not Dead: Cast + Crew
Sarah Szloboda – Director and Associate Producer
Sarah is a director/actor/writer and graduate of Capilano University, where she learned among other things how to write in third person. Recent directing credits include Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Hazel St.), Antony & Cleopatra (Assistant/Bard on the Beach), The Vic (Terminal Theatre), and Speed-The-Plow (Terminal Theatre). Recent acting credits include Uncommon Women & Others (Fighting Chance), Here on the Flight Path (Metro Theatre), Boy’s Life (Penguin Pool), The First Time (Co-Writer/Terminal Theatre), and Threepenny Opera, The Ashgirl, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Exit 22).
Tanille Geib – Associate Producer
Tanille is thrilled to be Not Dead! Her fascination with humans drives her to explore all things art, tea, and yoga. She is a writer, director, producer and fundraiser from Calgary and this past April joined the Vancouver community by producing an art showcase: Colliding Passions held at Little Mountain Studios.
Daniel Reetz – Visuals, Props + Co-creator
Daniel Reetz is an artist, hacker, and engineer. He founded the Fakeproject Corporation.
Brandon Marback - Visual Tech
Brandon Marback lives in Fargo North Dakota creating state-owned media for students of life and the surrounding areas. When he's not human-interfacing or testing small munitions, Brandon enjoys disappearing unexpectedly and playing electric guitar in the death-metal, rock n' roll band War on God.
Meg Holle - Writer
Meg Holle is a writer and librarian living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seth Soulstein – Voiceover and Writing Assist
Seth Soulstein is currently working towards an MA in Theatre Studies at UBC. He is a co-author of Alley Theatre’s "Wicked Shorts," which won the Cultchivating the Fringe Award at last year’s Fringe Festival, and will be remounted this Sept/Oct at The Cultch. Look for Seth’s site-specific play Lost in Place on Granville Island, also a part of the Vancouver Fringe, September 2011.
Danielle Marleau – Actor, Producer and Writing Assist
Danielle founded Black Pants Productions after graduating UBC’s theatre program in 2007. She has been collaborating with artists from a myriad of disciplines ever since. Danielle, Meg and Daniel of the Fakeproject Corporation have been working together for several years to develop You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living for live performance. Black Pants and the Fakeproject Corporation premiered the stage version in 2010 at SFU Harbour Centre.
Christian Sloan – Actor
Christian Sloan. The man. The myth. The legend. No soul on earth has as yet revealed the enigma, the atom-smashing revelations of who or what Christian Sloan truly is. A blessed angel gifted from the heavens to lighten the common man's plight? A rogue devil here to tear us asunder and look good doing it? Better to sit back and revel in the blinding glory as his destiny unfurls before us...
Donate to support Black Pants Projects
Thank you for your interest in donating to Black Pants.
We are still gathering funds to cover the cost of a remount for "You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living". We are reaching out to our friends, family and the community at large, to help us continue in our efforts to dazzle and entertain.
We acknowledge the generous cash donations made by the following individuals:
FRIENDS ($20 - $150) Anne Mundell, Ben Holle, Mark Holle, Valerie Mikelson, Zak Santiago, Glenda Bartosh, Lily Tay, Katrin Schaefer, Samuel Haraldson, Melanie and David MacIver, Jackie Warren, Larry and Sherry Killam, Patricia Badir
SUPPORTERS ($160 - $500) Abe and Janet Buhler, Cameron and Laurel Mowatt
ADVOCATES ($510 - $950) Anonymous
PATRONS ($1000+) Shane and Kristin Steeves, Prep Work Hair Studio
We sincerely hope you consider making a contribution. By donating, you are directly fostering the work of independent artists.
Contact Information
Phone:
604.219.6491
Email:
Address:
5-1204 Victoria Dr
Vancouver, BC V5L 4G6
