It’s a Wonderful Life
Meet the Cast - Rob Thomson
Rob has has been a bureaucrat and boat-builder, teacher and traveller, law-writer and literacy agent, health planner and refugee helper, singer, theatre actor and producer.
After an early career chapter as a secondary and university teacher, he spent 27 years planning and writing laws in the provincial departments of Health, Social Services and Education.
He has done a dozen years of development work -- in northern Saskatchewan native communities and in four overseas assignments with CUSO ... in Malawi, Malaysia, Tanzania and the Solomon Islands.
His extra-curricular activities have tended to be in areas of social justice -- refugee work, Habitat for Humanity, some political activism, nursing home entertainment.
Rob and his wife Mar travel extensively, tending toward the off-the-beaten-track in places from Bhutan to The Stans and Mongolia.
Theatrically, he was a founding member of ACT, organizer of a decade of PEI Community Theatre Festivals, and teacher of ‘popular theatre’ in schools and a prison in the South Pacific. He has acted in and done production work for over 40 productions through the years since being dragooned into theatre at an audition he took his son to.
This staging of It’s a Wonderful Life is a special delight: it has been a quarter-century since Rob played Joseph in a Confederation Centre production of the original play … and this time he gets to act the dichotomous good-and-evil roles of Clarence and Potter.
‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ by Joe Landry. Directed by Marti Hopson. Performances December 3, 4, 5 at Confederation Centre , click here for tickets, and December 10, 11, 12 at Watermark Theatre, click here for tickets. Sponsored by The Smith Team of RBC Dominion Securities. (photo: Landwash Studios)