Patrick Street Productions
Great productions of great plays and musicals for the Lower Mainland.
Artistic Producers: Peter Jorgensen and Katey Wright
Artistic Associate: Chris Allan
Peter Jorgensen is an actor/director/ choreographer/writer and musical theatre aficionado based in Vancouver.
Recent directing/choreography credits include Die Fledermaus and Offenbach's Orpheus: Gone to Hell! for the North Shore Light Opera Society, Nunsense Jamboree and Bye, Bye Birdie (Ovation Award: Outstanding Direction of a Musical and CTC Award: Best Choreographer) for Footlight Theatre, The Baker’s Wife for Applause! Musicals in Concert (attended by the composer Stephen Schwartz), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown for Blockhead Productions (Ovation Nominations for Direction and Production), as well as musical staging for Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill for the Tin Can Collective.
As an actor Peter has appeared locally in the Arts Club Theatre Company productions of Dirty Blonde, Dial M…for Murder, Dames at Sea, Forever Plaid, and She Loves Me (Jessie Nomination: Outstanding Performance). At the Gateway Theatre he has appeared in Lend Me a Tenor, Dads: the Musical, and Forever Plaid (Jessie Award: Outstanding Ensemble Performance). He has also appeared at Bard on the Beach in Cymbeline, at the Vancouver Playhouse in No Great Mischief, and with Carousel Theatre he starred as George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life (Jessie Nomination: Outstanding Performance). With Royal City Musical Theatre he starred as Harold Hill in The Music Man and as Julian Marsh in 42nd Streeti and with Theatre Under the Stars as Josh Baskin in big: the musical. An alumnus of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, Peter spent two years after graduating performing in various off-Broadway productions such as That’s Life, Magic to Do: the Songs of Stephen Schwartz, the world premiere of Number the Stars, and the title role in Young Moses.
As a writer he collaborated on the book and lyrics for the new musical Abracadabra, wrote and produced his own one-man cabaret To Broadway and Back (Jessie Nomination: Outstanding Original Script), wrote a new adaptation (book and lyrics) of Orphee Aux Enfers entitled Offenbach's Orpheus: Gone to Hell!, and has composed several original songs for various theatrical productions.
Off-stage Peter is a private voice instructor, the founder and program director of the Arts Club Musical Theatre Intensive, and is a proud member of Theatre Cares Vancouver. www.peterjorgensen.com
 Katey Wright has been a co-founder of two successful theatre companies, Solo Collective and Bard on the Beach, both in Vancouver. For other theatre companies, Katey has worked as a publicist and administrator, and she has directed, written, and participated in collective creations.
A professional performer for over 20 years, Katey's career has taken her across the country and back. Standout performances include the roles of Viola in Twelfth Night (Bard on the Beach), Claire in Proof (Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg / Citadel Theatre, Edmonton), Constance in She Stoops to Conquer (Grand Theatre, London / Playhouse Theatre Co.), and Lea in Strawberries in January (Touchstone Theatre). From the musical theatre canon, Katey has starred in a range of shows, appearing as Lucy Brown in The Three Penny Opera (Belfry Theatre, Victoria / Arts Club Theatre), Janet in The Rocky Horror Show (Kaleidoscope Theatre, Victoria), Mary Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (Chemainus Theatre, Chemainus), Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (Arts Club Theatre), Amalia in She Loves Me! (Arts Club Theatre - Stanley stage), and most recently in the title role in Little Mercy's First Murder (Touchstone Theatre). Katey has extensive film and TV credits, including recent appearances in The 4400, The Collector, The Dead Zone, Da Vinci's City Hall, and Psych!. A busy voice-over performer, Katey has hundreds of radio commercials to her credit, has voiced animation and video games, and reads fiction on the CBC in series like Between the Covers and The Breakfast Serial.
Katey is very much involved in volunteer work in Vancouver's theatre community. She spent 12 years as an elected regional rep and national councillor for Canadian Actors' Equity Association, is currently President of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards Society (having served an additional 6 years on the Jessies' board as chair of the Jessies Review Committee), and has been a member of Theatre Cares Vancouver since 2001. www.kateywright.com
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