Artistic team

Tom Bentley-Fisher
Artistic Director and Master Teacher

Award winning theatre director, teacher and writer. He has worked throughout Canada, the United States and Europe for over thirty years. He has directed over one hundred productions, taught at numerous universities and theatre schools, and served as the artistic director of five professional theatres. Since becoming the artistic director of Tant per Tant, Tom divides his time between Saskatoon and Barcelona, where in 2009 he spent five months creating and directing a critically acclaimed all-female version of The Iliad for Q-ars Teatre, produced for the prestigious Grec 09 International Festival of Barcelona and remounted in the summer of 2010 for the Festival de Teatro Clásico de Mérida. Tom continues to direct and teach master classes in North America and Europe.For detailed information about Tom’s career you can visit his website.

Elisabet Ràfols
Literary Director and International Projects Co-ordinator

Founding member. Literary translator that often works in collaboration.  Her languages are Catalan, French, English and Spanish.
As a dramaturge she has collaborated with Tom Bentley-Fisher, with whom she works as well on the translation and delivery of his master classes in Catalonia.  For more information, visit her website.

Kim Searle
Associate Artistic Director and Educational Director

Founding member of The Young Actors' Club in Saskatoon. She is also the founder and artistic director of the highly successful youth theatre troupe Shakespeare's Shadows and has been teaching Shakespeare to youth since 2003. Kim has been involved with Tant per Tant in various capacities since 2007. Her activities include stage managing three seasons of the Catalan Connection, assisting in the translation process of the Catalan plays that toured Canada in the fall of 2010, working as Tant per Tant’s reader in their discovery program, and assisting artistic director Tom Bentley-Fisher both as a director and instructor.

ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES

Àngels Sánchez

Actor, teacher, director and playwright. She worked on the Ilíada diected by Tom Bentley-Fisher in Barcelona and Mérida. She has worked with companies like Teatre Lliure, Q-Ars Teatre, Menudos and Cia Amaranto. She teaches communications and public reading workshops. She has stage directed two performances by the choir Manresa Esclat Gospel Singers, in which she is a singer. At thel Taller de Músics de Barcelona she teaches acting and expression techniques for singers and choirs. For more information vist her website.

Lavinia Hollands

She studied playwriting and dramaturgy at the University of Victoria before training under Tom Bentley-Fisher in San Francisco. She directed The Woolgatherer, by William Mastrosimone, in Vancouver and has directed various staged readings at Theatre503, Tristan Bates and the New Diorama Theatre. She currently lives in London and is cofounder of Constructive Interference theatre company. She wrote and directed Adjusting Water Features at the Rosemary Branch Theatre. She was dramaturge and director for Peter Norgate’s Euler's Circles, a new play about disability, at the Brockley Jack Theatre. She directed Governor General award winning play, The December Man, by Colleen Murphy, at the Finborough Theatre and was recently part of the Offcut festival at Riverside Studios in London.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Paula Searle
Kim Searle
Elisabet Ràfols