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Bio

A selective bio of Richard Michelle-Pentelbury's awards, presentations and writing.

 

Various Awards

Best Director, Alberta Provincial Drama, One Act Festival
2011
Best Production, Calgary Regional Drama Festival
2011
Outstanding Director, Sandy Singer Award for Outstanding (Lifetime) Contribution to Community Theatre
2010
Outstanding Director, Camelot, for Front Row Centre Theatre: CAT AWARD
2008
Outstanding Actor, as Morrie, in Tuesdays with Morrie, for Morpheus Theatre: CAT AWARD
2007
Outstanding Director, Jesus Christ Superstar, for Front Row Centre Theatre: CAT AWARD
2004
Alberta Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development: Innovative Practices Award
2003
Graduate Student Scholarship, Alberta Learning (Outstanding Academic)
2002

 

Excellence in Teaching Award Alberta Teachers’
1994
Centennial Playwright Award "Glorious and Free!"
1994
Poulin Award, Outstanding Citizenship Lakehead University
1981
President’s Medal Lakehead University
1981
McAllen Munro Prize for Prose Lakehead University
1980

 

Recent Theatre Directing (30 Years Experience)

Duck Variations (by D. Mamet) Pumphouse Theatre
2011
Pride and Prejudice (adapted by Naomi Eaton) Centennial Theatre
2010
Harvey Morpheus Theatre
2010
Peer Gynt Centennial High
2009
Patience (the G&S Opera) Morpheus Theatre
2009
Alice in Wonderland Centennial High
2008
It's a Wonderful Life! Centennial High
2008
Camelot Front Row Centre Theatre
2007
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Centennial High
2006
Evita Front Row Centre Theatre
2006
Our Town Centennial High Theatre
2005
Iolanthe (the Opera) Morpheus Theatre
2005
Fiddler on the Roof Bonavista Theatre
2004
Jesus Christ Superstar Front Row Theatre
2004

 

Resident Director Morpheus Theatre
2001-2011
Artistic Director Liffey Players Theatre
1998-2001

 

Director/actor for Calgary Community Association of Theatres:

Bonavista Players; Broadminds Theatre
Front Row Centre Theatre; Morpheus Theatre; and Storybook Theatre

 

Some other productions, Directed: (usually with a cast and crew of 70+):

Pirates of Penzance; Romeo and Juliet; Pygmalion; Our Town; Macbeth;
Peer Gynt; Finian’s Rainbow; The Sound of Music; The Wizard of Oz;
Wherever You Go!; Little Women; Same Old Moon; Carousel; Gondoliers.

 

Recent Theatre Lead Roles Performed (50 Years Experience)

Morrie Tuesdays with Morrie Break-a-Femur Productions
2009
Geoffrey (cameo) The Dresser Workshop Theatre
2008
Morrie Tuesdays with Morrie Morpheus Theatre
2007
Pierre (15 songs and MC) Oh Canada, Eh!? Canmore (professional)
2002
Professor Frank Educating Rita Broadminds Theatre
2001
Emile (romantic lead) South Pacific Front Row Centre
2000

 

Formal Academic Credentials

M.A. (Gifted Education Specialization): University of Calgary; Thesis: Multipotentiality: A Grounded Theory Analysis
2000-2003
B.A. (First Class); B.Ed. : Lakehead University
1977-1981

 

Selected Institutional Affiliations and Professional Presentation Roles

Keynote Address: Revolution for Leaders. Calgary Teacher's Convention
2011
Spiral Dynamics, Psycho-geometrics, the Actor, Director, and You. Aghullus Theatre Convention: Johannesburg Civic Theatre
2010
Keynote Address: (40-year Reunion) PBHS: Interpersonal Dynamics, Past, Present, and Future. Pretoria
2010
Rotarian Goals, Mission Statement, Evolution. Rotary Society Workshops. Calgary
2009
Inter-personal and Intra-personal Dynamics; an overview of Humanitarian Models. Calgary Rotarian Society
2008
History, Big Bang to Present, University of Calgary, Summer Success, Gifted Ed.
2007
Cover painting: Stumbling toward Enlightenment, by Doon Wilkins. Pepys Publishing (www.mcpspeakers.com/speaker_bio/32)
2004
Chair, Gifted and Talented PD Steering Committee
2003
Gifted and Talented PD Committee: regular Conference presenter
2000-2003
Centre for Gifted, University of Calgary: Professional Development Series
1999
Staff Development Group: Enrichment and Extension Strategies Committee
1999
Staff Development Committee: Exploring the Needs of Gifted Students:
1998
Research and System Development: The Drama Alphabet:
1997
Humanities: Hartlepool Centre, UK Implemented Independent Learner Program
2002
Drama; The Actor’s Alphabet: University of Calgary, Summer Success, Gifted Ed.
2001
Drama Alphabet: Theatre Teachers’ of America, presenter, Washington D.C.
2000

 

International and Local Communications Experience: Selected Keynotes

The Paradigm *Phallacy and You! [*coined] Centennial Remembrance Day
2010
*Aspiralling to Change! [*coined]. BDO International Accounting. Johannesburg
2010
Evolving toward Future Goals. AIDC (Automotive Ind. Dev. Centre) Johannesburg
2010
The Actor's Alphabet and You! Cast of Les Miserable. Calgary Theatre
2010
Motive Action! A multiple series of Personnel Development Workshops. Calgary
2009

Beware “The Paradigm Phallacy” [hereby coined]; An Autonomous and Unique Personality a la Dabrowski.

Eighth International Congress of the Institute for Positive Disintegration in Human Development. Aug. 7-9, Canmore

2008
Audition Semiotics; An Actor's Master Class. Morpheus Theatre workshop series.
2008

The Challenge of Change and Diversity; Hope for Leaders and Educators

Calgary Teacher’s Convention

2007

Spiral Dynamics as it Affects Administration, Teachers, and Students

Society for advancement of Gifted Education, University of Calgary

2004

The Individualized Learner Program

Alberta Teacher’s Convention, Calgary

2004

Implemented The Individualized Learner Program in England (by special invitation)

Nothumberland, U.K., Hartlepool Gifted and Talented

2003

Dabrowski’s Theories and the Affective Domain (with Bill Tillier)

Calgary Regional Consortium

2003

Drama, Time Machines, and Social Studies: What a Way to Learn!

Calgary Regional ATA Social Studies Council

2003

Metaphorical Symbolism Inherent in My Oil Paintings and Novel, As Promised

C.J. Jung Society, Calgary

2000

The Individualized Learner

Society for advancement of Gifted Education, University of Calgary

2000

The Actor’s Alphabet for Drama Teachers and Actors

Washington, D.C., Theatre Teachers’ of America

2000

The Actor’s Alphabet for Educators of Drama

Quality Learning Symposium, Calgary

2000

Glorious and Free! by r.f.P, at Centre for Performing Arts

ESSO Imperial Oil partnership with Bowness High School

1994
The Basis for Comprehensive Learning: Alberta’s Gifted ~ Celebrate the Promise
1984

 

Selected Publications

Michelle-Pentelbury, R. (2009). One Step at a Time, the journey from a wheelchair up a mountain. Retrieved, January, 2009 from http://positivedisintegration.com

Michelle-Pentelbury, R. (2004). The Colour of Character, an Introduction of Spiral Dynamics to Theatre. August 2004. Retrieved, March 24, 2005 from http://www.morpheustheatre.ca/news/colourofcharacter.pdf

Michelle-Pentelbury, R. (2002). TPD and Practicality in the Classroom: A need for Subjective Identification. AGATE, 16 (2), 29-32.Pentelbury, R. (2000). Fred Flintstone to Luke Skywalker, Beam Me Up! ATA Glance, 12 (3), 1-2.
Pentelbury, R. (1996). Gold and Purple Days. Island Journeys, Anthology. Poetry Institute of Canada. Pictorial Press.
Pentelbury, R. (1996). Camp Fire Chit Chat. Poetic Voices of America. Sparrowgrass Poetry.
Pentelbury, R. (1995) Pundit’s Grammarland, (illustrated series). Copies direct from author.
Pentelbury, R. (1987). The Carrot or the Reins? Teaching Today, VI (1), 18-20.

 

Novels Published (through Amazon.com)>

ADMISSION:> Adam Broadford, a white child foretold eventually to write of all he witnesses by an ancient Sangoma, grows up under the wise influence of an old Matabele mentor in the cauldron of Colonial Africa's Zambia. Torn between the clashing cultures of his Afrikaans step-parents and his English heritage, he eventually is conscripted into the South African Army where he is forced to make the ultimate choice before he can write his story; escape the country and give up the one person he would always love, or stay and forever dispute the consequences of his unusual destiny. See synopsis

 

TRANSITION:> Adam is continually faced with intriguing and adventurous choices in his quest for freedom that lead him to be a refugee as he cycles up the length of Britain, pursued by Home Office, and by others, yet driven by the demands of his destiny. Eventually, in the Orkney Islands, he comes to make his escape to Canada, only to discover that the reaches of his past continue to make unusual demands before he can fulfill the mandate of the old prophecy: Write, write about it all ! It is a quest not so much for freedom that enlivens his story, as it is for insight and wisdom. Every reader will be enthralled!

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