PEERLESS TEAM
Alison Chang (she/her) - M
For ETC: Antigone, Little One
Alison Chang is a Vancouver-based actress, playwright, and comedian. She’s appeared on screen (Netflix‘s The Order), onstage (JAC, Vietgone), and online with countless sketches with local sketch comedy groups. Originally from Hong Kong, she studied at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and has now set her roots in Vancouver.
Instagram: @alisonchangsta
Hazel 한결 Kang (She/they) - L
ETC: Debut
Hazel 한결 Kang is a Korean actor/artsworker based in so-called Vancouver. Hazel grounds her art in an evolving assessment of their positionality as a settler, actively engaging a radical reimagination of representation as an effort to decolonize storytelling spaces on Turtle Island. Inheriting the complexity and humour of a racialized, femme, settler-immigrant body in the arts, Hazel disrupts norms of visibility on the conventionally white-centric theatre stage. Hazel indulges in art that agitates, ruptures, and transgresses, and is absolutely ecstatic to bring this outrageous story to life. She is grateful for Ensemble Theatre Company for trusting her with the opportunity. Hazel was most recently seen in Metamorphoses (United Players of Vancouver).
Keane Faye (he/they) - D
ETC: Debut
Originally from Nova Scotia, Keane is a non-binary/two-spirit actor whose love of theatre comes from the musical scene. Now, primarily a film and television actor, they still find home on the stage.
Jakobe Jenkins (he/him) - BF
ETC: Debut
A Vancouver Film School grad (’24), Jakobe Jenkins is humbled to join Peerless. After starting as a child actor and stepping away for two decades, returning to his first love, the theater, feels like a true "Hoopcoming." Jakobe is profoundly grateful for a career that has unexpectedly taken him across the globe for international commercial work and allowed him to debut professionally in the Arts Club’s Franklinland, where he served as apprentice director under his mentor and friend, Omari Newton. He is thrilled to explore a contemporary work as unique as Peerless. Jakobe thanks his mom, his family, Yvonne, his teachers, and the team at ETC—specifically Chris and Keltie—for their support in this second chapter. Most importantly, he thanks his late grandfather for sparking his love of the Bard; as promised, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player..." This one's for him.
Emma Soothill (she/her) - Dirty Girl
ETC: Debut
Emma Soothill is a performing artist and Studio 58 graduate. Some recent theatre credits include: Sadie in BFF-less (Roomie Productions); Margot in Camp Goneaway (Ragamuffin Productions); Caliban in The Tempest and Sheila in A Chorus Line (Studio 58). When she’s not acting, you can find Emma reading anything she can get her hands on and trying to remember to water her plants.
Keltie Forsyth (She/Her) - Director
Photo credit: Ryan Parker Photography
For ETC: In the Next Room or the vibrator play and Superior Donuts and Little One
Keltie is the Artistic Director at Presentation House Theatre on the unceeded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ Nations on Vancouver’s North Shore. She holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from UBC, is a graduate of the University of Alberta Department of Drama, a participant in the 2026 National Theatre School Artistic Leadership Residency. She is the recipient of the 2022 Ray Michael Directing award for outstanding body of work and Sydney J Risk Award in Directing.
Select directing credits include: Lia & Dor (Ensemble Theatre/K.I.A. Productions/Catun), Beautiful Man (Pi Theatre), In Response to Alabama (Little Thief Theatre), Viet Gone, The Red Priest (United Players), The Audition (HealthPitch UK), She Kills Monsters, Eurydice, The Dumb Waiter, Marion Bridge (UBC), Juice, All in the Timing, Closer, Bedlam, Kafka’s Metamorphosis (K.I.A. Productions).
Lou Marshall (they/them) - Stage Manager
For ETC: Debut
Since graduating from Studio 58's Production Program in December 2024, Lou has been working continuously as an emerging Stage Manager all over the Greater Vancouver Area. Their recent credits include Touchstone Theatres 9 to 5 (2026), Arts Umbrellas Macbeth and Arts Club's yearly Christmas cabaret The Gingerbread Men (2026). Lou will soon be an Apprentice Stage Manager on Touchstone Theatres production of Vascular Necrosis opening October 15th, 2026.
Lou hopes you enjoy this gut wrenching adaptation of Macbeth and all the work the incredible team has put into it!
Mike Kovac (he/him) - Fight Director
For ETC: Debut
Mike Kovac is a Certified Fight Director and Instructor with Fight Directors Canada, and works in film/television/theatre in and around Vancouver. A graduate of Capilano University’s Acting for the Stage and Screen Program (where he is also now an Instructor of Stage Combat), he has worked on Noises Off, The Shoplifters, Kim’s Convenience, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Misery, and Mustard (Arts Club), as well as Coriolanus, The Crucible, and She Kills Monsters (UBC), among others. Mike has also appeared in various film and television projects, including Arrow, Supernatural, The 100, Tin Star, Valley of the Boom, Deadly Class, and Batwoman. He regularly works as a stunt performer and stunt actor. If you see him on the screen somewhere, he’s probably about to die.
Sam Chung (she/her) - Lighting Designer
For ETC: Monstrosity
Originally from Hong Kong, Sam is an emerging artist from UBC Theatre Design and Production, specializing in Scenic and Lighting Design, and Technical Direction. Select credits include: The Lawyer Show: 9 to 5 (Touchstone Theatre), Pippin (Play On Words Production), Salt-Water Moon (Western Gold Theatre), and Metamorphoses (United Players of Vancouver) as Lighting Designer, The Watsons and Citysong (Vital Spark Theatre) as Technical Director.
Rick Calhoun (he/him) - Sound Design
For ETC: Superior Donuts,
Rick Colhoun, Sound Designer
Recent credits include:
Come From Away, Franklinland and The Golden Anniversaries (The Arts Club), Grease (CTORA), Shrek The Musical (RCMT), Shakespeare In Love (Metro Theatre). Rick has won Jessie and Ovation Awards for his work in Sound Design. Rick thanks his family for their support, and all who make live theatre happen!
Emily Dotson (she/her) - Set and props Design
For ETC: Debut
Emily Dotson is a set designer and theatre educator in Vancouver. She has worked as an assistant set and costume designer for both The Shaw Festival and the Stratford Festival and assistant set designer with Bard on the beach. She is an Adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia specializing in set design and scenic painting. She is a Jesse Award winner and two-time Ovation Award nominee. Recent shows include Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson Apt. 2B at the Gateway Theatre, Amadeus at the Stratford Festival director's projects, and 9-5 the Musical with RCMT.
Starlynn Chen (she/her) - Costume Designer
ETC: Debut
Starlynn Chen is an emerging set and costume designer and a graduate of the Production Program at Studio 58. Her set and costume design for Rent (Metro Theatre) received the 2025 Ovation Award for Outstanding Set Design (Large Theatre), and her costumes for James and the Giant Peach (CTORA) were nominated for the 2025 Ovation Award for Outstanding Costume Design.
Recent credits: Set Design for The Paper Bag Princess (Carousel Theatre), A Journal of the Plague Year (Studio 58), Jack and the Beanstalk (Metro Theatre), Au Grand Jour (Théâtre la Seizième), and Linck and Mülhahn (Studio 58); Costume Design for The Undeniable Accusations of Red Cadmium Light (Firehall Arts Centre), The Replacement Wife (United Players), The Odd Couple (Theatre NorthWest), and James and the Giant Peach (CTORA); Assistant Costume Design for Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night (Bard on the Beach).