INSTRUCTORS

Sarah is a Senior Instructor at Tarlington Training with twenty years experience as a professional film, television and stage actor. She’s also been with us for over ten years.

Her acting credits include principal roles on “Cold Squad”, “X-Files”, “The Marshal”, “Lonesome Dove”, “Danger Bay” and “Northwood”. Sarah has won three acting awards: the TV Week Award, YTV National Achievement Award In Acting and the Los Angeles Youth In Film Award for her lead role in “The Girl From Mars”.

Sarah holds a BC Provincial Instructor Diploma. She has studied at both New York’s Circle In The Square Theatre School and the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia.

Behind the camera, Sarah has directed two short films – “Just Like Everybody Else” for the Vancouver School Board and “Being Elizabeth” for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vancouver. She also teaches acting in elementary and secondary school classrooms as an Artist-In-Residence for the Vancouver School Board.

Trevor has been working professionally in film, television and theatre for the past fifteen years. His roots began at the Vancouver Youth Theatre where he toured nationally and internationally. He has appeared in numberous television series and pilots in Vancouver, including "DaVinci's Inquest", "The 4400", "Psych", "The Commish", "The Odyssey", "Sliders", "Viper", "Higher Ground", "Rocky Times" and "These Arms Of Mine".

Trevor's feature film credits include "Scary Movie", "Final Destination 2", "MVP: Most Valuable Primate", "Angels In The Endzone" and "This Boy's Life" He has appeared on screen with Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Matthew McConnaughey.

He is also a talented writer and film producer with three shorts completed and his first feature currently in development. Trevor has been at Tarlington Training for five years and is one of our senior instructors.

A film and stage actor, screenwriter and acting instructor whose career spans almost two decades in Canada and England, Misli has appeared in David Mamet's "Speed The Plow" and spent two yeras with the British Asian Theatre Company. Her film credits include "South Of The Border", "Secret Weapon" and "Boeing Boeing". Misli spent two years mentoring in playwriting, acting and producing for young people at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre.

Turning her sights to writing professionally, she penned the critically acclaimed "Raj From Edmonton", a one-person show that toured England with over 100 performances. Other writing credtis are a commissioned play "I'll Die With My Gold On" for Asian Theatre Initiative in England, "The Silver Touch", in development for television for London Films and "I'll Spell That For You", a novel that is a work in progress. She also writes poetry.

One of the busiest young hyphenates in the city: director,actors, writer, producer. A.J. Bond trained with Carole Tarlington in his youth (and was one of her clients when she was a Talent Agent). These days, he's all grown up and writing and directing short films (you may have seen his "Hirsute" at the Vancouver International Film Festival this year) and some of them he stars in.

A.J. brings years of real world experience to Tarlington Training's acting programs.

Maria was trained in New York and Vancouver, and has experience in film, television and theatre. her stage credits include Doris in "Same Time Next Year", for which she received a CTC Best Actress nomination, Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and Beverly in "Shadow Box", for which she won a Theatre BC Best Actress award.

Maria's television credits include "Cold Squad", "Romeo", "Saved" and the Lifetime movie of the week, "The Stranger Game". She will also appear in the feature film, "The Martian Child", with John Cusack, which is scheduled for release in late 2007 and she just finished filming "Sheltered Life", which is headed to this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Maria directed her first play last Spring; a production of "Marvin's Room" for Stage 43 in Coquitlam.

Kristie is an alumni of Tarlington Training, She has been a working actor for the past 10 years, in film, television, and on stage. Currently she is a series regular on the new Global comedy, “About A Girl”. She also originated and starred as “Sophie” (the lead role) in the US national tour of the hit Broadway show, “Mamma Mia!”.

Kristie has guest starred on numerous television shows. Her credits include “The 4400”, “Psych”, “Supernatural”, “Masters Of Horror”, “Reefer Madness”, “Dark Angel”, and “Saved”. She made her feature film debut in “The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants”.

Kristie has been seen around the stages of Vancouver as Zaneeta in “The Music Man” (Vancouver Playhouse), Chava in “Fiddler On The Roof” (RCMT & TUTS), Diana Barry in “Anne Of Green Gables” (Gateway), Fall Down Girl in “Oklahoma” (TUTS) and “Somewhere In The World” for the Charlottetown Festival’s Young Company, in PEI. She can also be heard on the original cast recording.

Megan is an Alumni of Tarlington Training and will soon be a graduate of UFV with her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre. She also has trained extensively in film and television acting.

Megan works part time with the Abbotsford Children’s Theatre as an Instructor, Artistic Stage Director and playwright. Megan has ten years experience in community theatre, playing roles in over fifteen productions including “Macbeth”, “A Midsummer Nights Dream”, “The Canterbury Tales”, “Anne of Green Gables”, and “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” among many others. She has directed many successful productions including “Anne Frank”, “Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes”, and “Mirror Game.”

Megan is currently working with Penguin Books Canada on an adaptation of a Vancouver children’s novel, “Awake and Dreaming” for it’s stage debut in 2009.