1960 - 1969
1960
Directs Britten’s opera, Noye's Fludde, Vancouver International Festival. Myra Benson directs the children and John Avison conducts.
1961
Puck in Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream, Vancouver Festival.
Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, San Francisco Opera Company
Alice in
The Evening Colonnade, CBC Radio Vancouver Theatre.
Joy as Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream Photo by Franz Linder
1962
Receives the Koerner Foundation grant to travel to Stratford, Ontario to study with famed voice teacher Iris Warren.
Stars as Emily Carr in The Heart of the Thing, CBC Television Discovery.
Mary Jacobi in
The Third Day, CBC Radio Wednesday Night.
1963
Receives the Canadian Drama Award for “service to the theatre”.
Receives Canada Council grant to travel to Europe to observe children’s theatres.
Jocasta in Sophocles’s Oepidus Rex, CBC Radio Saturday Evening.
1964
Directs Henry Gheon’s Christmas in the Marketplace, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
Alice in The Dance of Death, CBC Radio Saturday Evening.
Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, CBC Radio Sunday Night.
Volumnia in Coriolanus, CBC Radio Saturday Evening.
Clare in Friedrich Durrenmatt’s
The Visit, UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre. Director: Klaus Strassman.
1965
Emily Carr in The Heart of the Thing, CBC Television Camera West.
Directs The Country Wife by William Wycherley, UBC's Frederic Wood Theatre.
Directs The Tunnel of Love by Joseph Fields, Penticton Summer Theatre.
Directs Androcles and the Lion by Aurand Harris, Holiday Theatre.
Directs Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
Directs William Wycherley’s The Country Wife, UBC's Frederic Wood Theatre. Design by Darwin Reid Payne. Music by Bill Henderson.
Agatha in The Family Reunion, CBC Radio Saturday Evening.
1966
Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, UBC's Frederic Wood Theatre. Director: Klaus Strassman.
Mrs. Castleton in Big Soft Nellie by Henry Livings, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Malcolm Black.
Directs Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing, National Theatre School of Canada.
1967
Birth of third child, David Michael John.
Becomes the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre’s first woman artistic director (1967-69).
Awarded certificate of merit, Canadian Confederation Centennial Committee of BC.
Receives Canadian Centennial Medal.
Directs George Bernard Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
Produces Premiere of George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director: George Bloomfield.
Directs Britten’s Noyes Fludde in Ottawa with Nicholas Goldschmidt conducting.
1968
Directs George Farquhar’s The Beaux Stratagem, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
Directs Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
Directs Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Frances Hyland and August Schellenberg, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver.
Establishes a second stage at the Playhouse Theatre in Vancouver for new and experimental work. Directs a new play,
The Visitor by Betty Lambert, and Edward Albee’s
Tiny Alice.
1969
Produces George Ryga’s Grass and Wild Strawberries, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Original score performed live by The Chilliwack. Director: Don Ecclestone.
Produces and acts in George Ryga’s Ecstasy of Rita Joe. This was the only original Canadian work at the Opening Festival of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. All Canadian premiers were in attendance, as was the Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Receives a Canada Council travel grant for five weeks to assess new works being done in both adult and children's theatre in England.
Moves to Okanagan Valley across the lake from playwright George Ryga.
