PARC 30th Anniversary Interviews

In April 2021 to mark PARC’s 30th anniversary, the Crake Intern, Hannah Lucas, interviewed 30 PARC members about PARC’s history and what PARC means to them. The final interview was with retired Artistic Director, Jenny Munday, and was orchestrated by Catherine Banks with Erin Taylor on video.

Jenny Munday – Artistic Director 1997-2017
Julie Vandervoort
Samantha Horak
Xavier Gould – Crake Intern 2014-2017
Catherine Banks – Lifetime Member
Richie Wilcox
Vanessa Cardoso-Whelan
Daniel MacIvor – Lifetime Member
Lindsay Kyte
Charlie Rhindress – Lifetime Member
Santiago Guzmรกn – PARC Artistic Associate 2020-present
Wendy Lill – Lifetime Member
Alison Crosby
Tessa Mendel, Halifax Theatre for Young People
Lara Lewis
Mary Vingoe – Lifetime Member
Sharon King-Campbell
Natasha MacLellan
Ryan Griffith
Karen Chung – Former Administrator
Katerina Bakolias
Norm Foster – Lifetime Member
Ellen Peterson
Melissa Mullen
Greg McLaughlin – Crake Intern 2012-2014
Peter Soucy
Tara Taylor
Don Hannah – Lifetime Member, Former Artistic Associate

Colleen Murphy, who was not keen on being video interviewed, sent the following for the anniversary archive:

“๐‘ƒ๐ด๐‘…๐ถ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™, ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘ . ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ, ๐ผโ€™๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก๐‘  – ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘˜๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘†๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ, ๐ฝ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘€๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ฅ, ๐‘…๐‘ฆ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐บ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘“๐‘“๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘–๐‘› ๐น๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘›, ๐ท๐‘œ๐‘› ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘›๐‘Žโ„Ž ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘‰๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ÿโ€™๐‘  ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’, ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘‰๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘กโ„Ž, ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ธ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ƒ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก, ๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ป๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ฅ, ๐ต๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘‚โ€™๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘†๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก ๐ฝ๐‘œโ„Ž๐‘›, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž ๐ต๐‘œ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ด๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ โ„Ž. ๐ผโ€™๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ƒ๐ด๐‘…๐ถ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐ฝ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ก ๐ธ๐‘‘๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘†๐‘ก. ๐ฝ๐‘œโ„Ž๐‘›โ€™๐‘  ๐‘๐น๐ฟ. ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐ผ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ƒ๐ด๐‘…๐ถ…๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ !” – ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ