2024 Adjudicators
Andrew Prashad
Andrew is a versatile dancer as well as musician, singer and actor. He is one of the leading Tap dance artists in Canada, teaching and choreographing around the world. He is an award-winning actor, composer and writer, having had his last self-produced short film officially selected in 12 festivals around the world and winning 4 awards including BEST SHORT FILM. Recent TV/Film credits include Disney’s film SPIN, the television series THE HOT ZONE: ANTHRAX, a principal recurring on the new series LARRY and a fun jaunt in BLUES CLUES AND YOU with his son. On stage he’s been a featured singer and dancer on the 20th Anniversary World Tour of RIVERDANCE, originated a role in Mira Nair’s MONSOON WEDDING musical at Berkeley Rep Theatre, played Cogsworth in Young People’s Theatre’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Billy in ONCE THE MUSICAL at Theatre St John’s in Newfoundland, Boutons in Neptune Theatre’s CINDERELLA where he won a MERRITT AWARD for OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR. After doing HOLIDAY INN at the Shaw Festival he made his Stratford Festival debut with his One-Person show ONE STEP AT A TIME. It is a critically acclaimed, multi-medium show (Tap dance, acting, singing, video) chronicling his family’s journey with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus and has been presented by schools and theatres, raising $11,500 (to date) for SickKids Hospital and ErinOak Kids. He recently finished playing The Beadle Bamford in Talk Is Free Theatre’s multi-DORA AWARD nominated production of SWEENEY TODD. He continues to develop as a theatre choreographer, playing the lead (Jimmy Ray) and choreographing BRIGHT STAR for Garner Theatre Prod., and playing the role of the Emcee in GRAND GHOSTS at The Grand Theatre, in which he was also the Tap dance choreographer. After playing Anoopjeet Singh in THE NEW CANADIAN CURLING CLUB for Theatre Orangeville / Drayton Entertainment, Andrew took on the monumental role of Pilate in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR for Talk Is Free Theatre. Andrew is a graduate of the University of Toronto at Mississauga with an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Performance as well as French Literature.
Suzanne Ouellette
Suzanne Ouellette is an independent artist having worked for over 30 yrs as a master ballet teacher, stretch and strength instructor, choreographer and actor. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, she trained and danced with some of the worlds finest ballet companies from Germany’s Stuttgart Ballet to Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, London England’s Dance Centre to Ballet B.C. where she became ballet mistress and rehearsal director for Ballet BC for 5 seasons under Artistic Director John Alleyne. Suzanne worked with James Kudelka, Paul Taylor, Jean Grand Maitre, Reid Anderson, and Anna Marie Holmes. Recently she has rehearsed works by Joshua Beamish, Mascall Dance, Simone Orlando and Wen Wei Wang. Suzanne has worked in professional musicals from the Vancouver Playhouse “A Chorus Line”, Calgary’s Stage West “Nunsense” and several productions for TUTS, MUSSOC and Winnipeg’s Rainbow Stage “Irene”, Brigadoon and Oklahoma.” Recently she has worked on the various TV series filming in Vancouver, iZombie, Motherland Fort Salem, Grease - Rise of the Pink Ladies, as well as movie’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Xmas movie and Starstruck A Cinderella Story.
Suzanne is a very creative and innovative choreographer and has worked extensively with aspirants and professionals in TV / film, CBC TV specials, Columbia Pictures Promos, fashion shows for hair and clothing designers, dance programs for Canada’s Olympic skaters, numerous UBC Opera department’s productions, Vancouver Opera Galas, Royal City Musical theatre productions, the Arts Club theatre, Richmond Gateway Theatre musicals, as well as Pantomimes. Currently one of Canada’s most respected and talented artists, Suzanne passion and enthusiasm, in many facets of the performing arts, has her in great demand as an actor, teacher, choreographer, rehearsal director and adjudicator.
Andrea Palmer
Originally from Saskatchewan; director, choreographer, dancer and teacher, Andrea Palmer has spent over 30 years studying and performing dance. Her credits include performances for television and film, artistic direction and choreography for Flexx (2001)- an annual summer dance festival in Montreal, a tour of United Nations Army bases in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as performances with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project during the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse (2001). In 2006, Andrea was honored to give master classes in Saint Petersburg, Russia and in England thanks to a grant from The Canada Council of the Arts. From 2007-2010, she continued to share her passion for dance in Norway as director of the jazz dance program for the Ørsta Volda Balletskule.
Andrea is an alumna of Canada’s National Ballet School. She holds a Master's Degree in Dance from UQAM as well as a Graduate Diploma in Art Management (Queen's University). A member of the Professional Adjudicators Alliance, Andrea has adjudicated festivals from coast to coast. She is thrilled to be returning to Moose Jaw Dance Inspirations (where she once danced) to inspire Saskatchewan's next generation of dancers!!
Shawn Byfield · Shawn Hounsell · Rhea Bowman · Senyo Akakpo · Stephana Arnold · Sheri Drewitz-Kanten · Tony Loupe · Eliana Girard · Andrea Palmer · Leslie Drewitz · Chris Hale · Lisa Latouche · Calen Kurka · Makaila Wallace · Caroline Gruber · Scott Fowler · Cartier Williams · Maud Arnold · Curtis Foley · Tara Nicole Hughes · Sean Cheesman · Ronda Nychka-Cunningham · Tiffany Knight · Vic DiMonda · Michelle Kittrell · Lisa Stevens · Courtney Tilford · Stephanie Saland · Alejandra Valiente Sánchez · Josh Nitkin · Jamie Holmes · Lara Kelly · Kareem Byfield · Nancy C. King · Stephen Reed · David Keener · Heather Ferri · Bethany Hook · Jason Lacayo · Lauren Beth Kassinger · Leslie Clifford · Dennis Lue · Jimmy Locust · Jeannine Trinka · Alex Hasbany · Andrea L. Hammond · Frank Augustyn · Stephen Reed · Anthony Locascio · Lorraine Graves · Scott Jovovich · Beth Woods · Winthrop Corey · Gerald Hardy · Maurice Curry · Jamie M. “Catt” Pisano · Patti Caplette · Kim Greco · Malcolm Gaile · Wendy Green · Ted Banfalvi · Paul Del Vecchio · Rodney Gustafson · Brenda Bufalino · Shirley Black-Brown · Molly Vasterling · Cindy Kerr · Betty Caplette · Doug Jacks · Mercedes Ellington · Wendy Green · Johanne Gingras · Jon Engstrom · Pam Killinger · Ken Green · Darlene Ceglia · Elizabeth Beddard · Sam Fiorella · Donald Emmons · David Adams · Lois Smith · Patsy Swayze · Gregg Bayaa · Paula Rose Peshewis · Florentina Lajekova · Robb Card · Belinda Sobie · Myrna Lecky · Cornelius Fisher-Credo · Sherry Gold · Keith Dittor · Cheryle MacDonald · Jacques Lemay · Janice Dunning · Nancy Haggarty Gibbons · Faye Foley · Maureen Webster Consolati · Donna Cove · Vincent Warren · Judy Edwards · Richard D’Isarno · Betty Farrally · Allan Cozzubo · Dr. Taras Babick · Lusia Pavlychenko · Jacque Foesier · Dianne Miller · Natalie Dobrolige · Brian Foley · Earl Kraul · Frank Bourman · Gloria Gaudry · Rene Russell · Trixie Hardy · Arlene Bain-Pederson · Sonia Chamberlain · Judy Schey · Jean McKenzie · Loree Martin Vellner · Sandra Caverly · Dennis Moore · Irene Baird · Dorothy Carter · Tommy Sutton · Jean Simpson · Viola Robertson · Bob Land · Racell Browne · Gwen Ashton · Sam McConnell · Ted Patterson · Arnold Spohr · Muriel Jolliffe · Sonia Taverner · David Shields · Jim Clouser