About Delinquent Theatre
Delinquent Theatre seeks to unite good theatre and good times. We use music, text, light and sound to tell stories that matter to us. Delinquent Theatre’s debut production of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead enjoyed a sold-out run of the Havana in the summer of 2009. The following summer, Delinquent’s production of Franz Wedekind’s Spring Awakening received critical praise. Recently, Delinquent produced Christine Quintana’s original one-act Our Time with support from Theatre at UBC. Earlier this summer, Delinquent Theatre received critical acclaim for their 10 minute musical PARKED: an indie rock musical for novelty instruments as part of Bridge Mix 2011. Delinquent Theatre presented Josephine Mitchell’s Oh My God as part of the 2011 Vancouver International Fringe Festival. Delinquent Theatre took part in the Here Be Monsters Festival’s Theatre Under the Gun, creating an original 12 minute piece titled Remember, Remember. After presenting Anton Lipovetsky’s FLOP! at Studio 1398, the Delinquents will debut a new one-act musical, STATIONARY at the Neanderthal Festival in July of 2012.
Delinquent Theatre is Laura McLean, Christine Quintana, and whoever else comes out to play.
Board of Directors
Jessie Van Rijn, President
Ron Reed, Vice President
Liz Wilton-McMahon, Treasurer
Nick Sartore, Secretary
Melissa Martin, Member at Large
Laura McLean – Artistic and Managing Director
Laura is a director, stage manager and co-Artistic Director of Delinquent Theatre. Previous directing credits with Delinquent Theatre include Spring Awakening and Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead which she then remounted with Fighting Chance Productions to win “Pick of the Fringe” at the 2009 Vancouver Fringe Festival. Other credits include Matt & Ben (FCP), High School Noir (Youth Week at the Cultch), The Tempest (UBC Player’s club), and Fight the Cold with Ceramics and Glitter and Oh My God as part of the Brave New Play Rites Festival at UBC.
Laura is currently working on a remount of Oh My God for the 2011 Vancouver Fringe Festival. Most recently Laura co-created and directed Party This Weekend, an interactive site-specific theatrical party experience. Selected Stage Management credits include The Great Divorce, My Name is Asher Lev and Godspell with Pacific Theatre and The Laramie Project and Unity 1918 with UBC Theatre. Laura has studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and is a graduate from the UBC BFA Theatre Production and Design program.
Christine Quinta
na – Artistic and Managing Director
Christine graduated in April of 2011 from Theatre at UBC with a BFA in Acting, and she is also a director, producer, costume designer, publicist, and co-Artistic Director of Delinquent Theatre. Recent acting credits include the role of Mary Anne in the Vancouver premiere of Michel Marc Bouchard’s The Madonna Painter, directed by Craig Holzschuh for Theatre at UBC, Fighting Chance Productions’ RENT as Mimi Marquez and 2009 Pick of the Fringe Dog Sees God as CB’s Sister. This December, made her professional acting debut in Carousel Theatre’s Seussical: The Musical. Christine co-directed and produced Spring Awakening for Delinquent Theatre.
In February 2011, Theatre at UBC sponsored a remount of Christine’s play Our Time at the Dorothy Somerset Studio.Our Time is the winner of the 2009 Cultch Ignite Festival Young Playwrights Contest; Christine has previously placed in this contest in 2008 (Semantics of Romantics) and 2006 (Transfer). She has also dabbled in costume design, working with director Adam Henderson on The Pillowman and The American Pilot. Most recently, Christine appeared as Marya Yefimovna Grekova in Wild Honey, her last performance at Theatre at UBC. Christine was most recently seen in The Wizard of Oz at Carousel Theatre.
