The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine (Barcelona, April 2005)
Actress - Ernestine

Elisa Moolecherry is an honours graduate of the Specialisation in Theatre Performance Programme at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and has acted professionally for over 13 years in film and on stage in both Canadian and international productions. She has been a regular on such television series as The Newsroom and Degrassi and has made numerous guest appearances on hit series, which include Monk and Missing. On stage, she has played such roles as Viola in Twelfth Night, Juliet in Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Fatima in Roland Schimmelpfennig's Arabian Night (Winner of the People's Choice Award Summerworks) and originated the role of Stacy in the Chalmer's Award-winning play Pop Song.

Elisa co-founded BeMe Theatre in Barcelona in 2005, starring as Ernestine in the company's first production, The Anger in Ernest & Ernestine and later as the solo performer in I, Claudia which had a highly successful remount in November 2006 at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in China and again in May 2007 at the Amerika Haus in Munich. Elisa was seen last winter in cinemas across Germany in the Til Schweiger production, One Way, and will be appearing in the German comedy series Pastewka later this year. She will return to the stage in February 2008 with BeMe Theatre.
 
Actor - Ernest    

Tom Rooney was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada where he received his training in music and acting at the University of Saskatchewan.

He now lives in Toronto where he has just completed a highly successful run of the world premiere of Gina Wilkinson's play, My Mother's Feet directed by Micheline Chevrier. He has performed the title role in Hamlet, Thomas Stockmann in An Enemy of the People and Leontes in The Winter's Tale all at the National Arts Centre. Other selected credits include:

 
Angels in America, Richard 111, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and The Tempest. He is a regular on the hit television series, This is Wonderland  for which he received a Gemini Nomination for his work.
 
Writer    

Leah Cherniak, Robert Morgan and Martha Ross

     
 
Director    

Director for the past twenty years, Micheline Chevrier has worked across Canada as director, dramaturge and stage manager. As a director she has worked at such theatres as The Shaw Festival, the National Arts Centre, the Centaur Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Prairie Theatre Exchange, the Globe Theatre, the Citadel, Canadian Stage, Theatre New Brunswick and the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People among others.

She was Associate Artistic Director at Theatre New Brunswick from 1990 to 1992, Associate Dramaturge at Playwrights Workshop Montreal from 1992 to 1993 and, for the past two seasons, was Associate Artist at CanStage in Toronto.

 
From 1995 to 2000, Micheline was the Artistic Director of the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa. She has directed and taught at the National Theatre School, Concordia University, Dalhousie University and University of Alberta to name a few. She is a graduate of McGill University and of the University of Toronto's Drama Centre.
 
Producer    
Ethel Ten Brink is an economist and has worked as an account manager for ING and as a financial consultant for both Deloitte and the Dutch Ministry of Education and Science. In Barcelona she co-founded BeMe Theatre with Elisa Moolecherry, executive pro-ducing their first show, The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine, in April 2005 followed by I, Claudia in June, 2006. Ethel currently works for BeMe as a consultant out of Barcelona.    
 
 
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