Events
CYPT's 30th Anniversary Gala!
2022 Cannonball Festival
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL CYPT welcomes back the 2022 Cannonball Festival of Youth-Led Theatre. Seven youth-produced one-act plays performed over two weeks! You heard that right…
Meet the Instructors
Here are just a few of the many wonderful instructors who teach for us!

Amy Sawka
Drama Camp Instructor; Class Instructor
Amy is a theatre artist with a passion for creation. She has been making theatre and performing in Calgary since she too was a young…

Brianna Johnston
Drama Camp Instructor

Claire Sonmor
Drama Camp Instructor
Claire is a Calgary-born, Edmonton-based theatre artist who has been involved with CYPT since 2017 when she performed in Grounded. Claire also performed in Cannonball!…

John Tasker
Drama Camp Instructor; Class Instructor
John Tasker is an actor, director, and creator based in Calgary. He began acting at the age of 15 when he joined Calgary Young People’s…

Meredith Johnson
Drama Camp Instructor

Taryn Yoneda
Drama Camp Instructor
Taryn is a Victoria-based artist. In 2019, she graduated from UVic with a BFA in Theatre Performance and a minor in Creative Writing. Past credits…

Sophi Murias
Drama Camp Instructor
Sophi is so excited to return to CYPT for her fourth summer as an instructor! She has just graduated from the University of Victoria with…

Ruby Gaudet
Camp Assistant
Ruby started out her time with CYPT by going to summer camp at the ripe old age of 10. She’s now been acting with CYPT…

Jacqueline Russell
Drama Camp Instructor
Jacqueline (she/her) is a director, performer, creator and clown based in Mohkínstsis/Calgary on Treaty Seven territory. She specializes in clown, mask, immersive theatre creation and…

Graham Percy
Drama Camp Instructor
Graham has acted professionally for over 30 years. A graduate of Queen’s University, and Jacques Lecoq’s International School of Theatre in Paris, France, Graham has…

David Feehan
Drama Camp Instructor
David is a Calgary-based actor, writer, and director. He was born in St. John’s, NL and holds a BFA in Acting (with Distinction) from the…

Tenaj Williams
Drama Camp Instructor
Tenaj Williams is a performer and entertainer based out of Calgary, Alberta. He has always enjoyed working with youths and is very much looking forward…

Coco Fedoroshyn
Drama Camp Instructor; Class Instructor
Coco is an actor, film editor, and as of 2021 a CYPT drama instructor. With experiences ranging from playing fantastical characters at Calaway Park to…

Charlotte Nixon
Class Instructor
Charlotte Nixon’s love of teenage drama inspires her to write plays for today’s modern adolescent. Her published works include: Silver's Secret, Bippity Bobbity BAAM, Itsy Bitsy:…

Amanda Storwick
Class Instructor; Drama Camp Instructor
Amanda first began working with CYPT at the age of five when attending her first ever drama summer camp! She has since fallen in love…

Paul Vanhoutteghem
Class Instructor; Drama Camp Instructor
Paul has been teaching Drama camps for the last 3 years. In summer of 2019, whilst attending the University of Lethbridge for a Bachelor of…

Abigail Weeks
Class Instructor; Drama Camp Instructor
Abby Weeks is a Calgary Theatre Artist who has been working with CYPT since she was 5 years old. Growing up a Summer Camp kid,…

Shea Heatherington
Class Instructor
Shea is a theatre artist in Mohkinstsis whose passions for compassion and community carry into all of her acting, directing, producing, and creation work. Following…
Recent Posts
May's YP of the Month is... Violet Griffiths!!! Like many CYPT kids, Violet started off as an "awkward" [editor's note: her word, not ours!] little…
MARCH 19, 2022: Unfortunately, due to cast illness and an abundance of caution, both the 2pm and 7pm performances of The Tuesday Crew and Friends…