04/20/2026
THE UNDENIABLE ACCUSATIONS OF RED CADMIUM LIGHT | Meet the Creative Team
Stephen Courtenay | Stage Manager
Stephen has stage managed about fifty Shakespearean productions over his twenty-seven year career with Bard on the Beach. Prior to that he spent ten years touring with the Vancouver Opera Touring company. He has worked for many theatres including the Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, The Citadel, Studio 58/Green Thumb, Touchstone Theatre, Pi Theatre, the Electric Company and numerous others. Previous ventures have included a number of premiere productions including Leslie Mildiner’s “Coming Up For Air”. Stephen’s most recent project for Firehall Theatre was Francis Koncan’s “The Women of the Fur Trade” with director Donna Spencer.
Charlie Beaver | Set/Props Design
Charlie is thrilled to be back at the Firehall. Credits: Godspell, set/props, Chemainus Theatre Festival; Macbeth, The Proposal, Seesaw, The Forests Wild, set/props, Arts Umbrella; Metamorphoses, set/technical direction, United Players; ROCW, set/props, Firehall Arts Centre (2023). Charlie is a graduate of Studio 58’s Production program.
Starlynn Chen | Costume Design
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 include: Set Design for The Paper Bag Princess (Carousel Theatre), A Journal of the Plague Year (Studio 58), Au Grand Jour (Théâtre la Seizième); Costume Design for The Replacement Wife (United Players), The Odd Couple (Theatre NorthWest); Assistant Costume Design for Bard on the Beach.
Rebekah Johnson | Lighting Design
Rebekah is pleased, as always, to be back designing at the Firehall. Recent designs include 'This is How We Got Here', 'Women of the Fur Trade', and 'Reflections on Crooked Walking'. Other recent designs include 'Casey and Diana' for Western Canada Theatre', 'Clue' for Theatre Northwest, and 'A Doll's House Part 2' for Western Gold Theatre. Rebekah is also the Technical Director at Chemainus Theatre Festival. She has a BFA (Theatre) and MFA (Fine Arts) from the University of Victoria, where she is a Sessional Instructor and Lighting Supervisor. She lives, with her 2 cats, in the beautiful Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island - traditional territory of the Coast Salish People and home to the Cowichan Tribe. rebekahjohnson25.com
Russell Wallace | Sound Design
Russell Wallace is an award winning composer, producer and traditional singer from the St'at'imc/Lil’wat Nation (Salish). His music has been part of a number of film and television soundtracks and theatre/dance productions and as a musician has been part of a number of award winning groups. Wallace is the Director of the Indigenous Vocal Ensemble at Vancouver Community College and works with a number of local choirs in Vancouver.
