About Us
Suspicious Mustache Theatre Company is company of young and emerging theatre artists based in Victoria, BC.
The Company was established in 2011 under the current name for the production of an adaptation of Struwwelpeter in the 2011 Victoria Fringe Festival by Artistic Director Darcy Stoop.
Beyond the 2011 Fringe Festival, Suspicious Mustache hopes to pursue future new works projects in Victoria that will nurture and excite!
Why Suspicious Mustache?
Darcy's previous Fringe company, MBUH Productions, was in need of a makeover and a more expansive mandate. Suspicious Mustache focuses on creating theatre that grows on you through the development of early-career professionals and new work. Each member of the cast and creative team is a current or recent student at the University of Victoria's Phoenix Theatre. Suspicious Mustache Theatre is exciting, live, local art, right under your nose!
Misfits and Mascots
Darcy Stoop - Artistic Director
Darcy has been involved in theatre for almost a decade. A transplant from Calgary, he got his first taste of Fringe at the local festival as a volunteer and a stage manager. Since then, he has worked as a director, producer, designer, performer, marketer, administrator and box office attendent at various venues in Calgary and his new home in Victoria, where he recently received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with a specialization in Directing from the University of Victoria. He currently serves as the Marketing Director for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, Victoria's newest professional theatre company. He directed Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me at the 2009 Victoria Fringe Festival, which was selected as the Pick of the Fringe - Best Drama.
Cat Haywood - Resident Designer
Cat was born and raised in Victoria and despite leaving to get her BA(H) from Queen's University in Kingston, returned to Victoria to obtain her Masters of Fine Arts in Costume & Set Design, which she did in 2010. Cat has worked as a designer with Single Thread and Chaos Theory in Kingston, the Phoenix Theatre (where she earned her MFA and also taught costume design in the Spring 2011 semester) and Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre (including the 2011 productions of Blithe Spirit and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) in Victoria, and as an assistant to the designer at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton.
Stephen the Kakapo - Mascot
Stephen is an 8" plush Kakapo brought home by Darcy from his recent trip to New Zealand. He serves as the company's mascot and enjoys booming, sleeping, and lending moral support.
The Company was established in 2011 under the current name for the production of an adaptation of Struwwelpeter in the 2011 Victoria Fringe Festival by Artistic Director Darcy Stoop.
Beyond the 2011 Fringe Festival, Suspicious Mustache hopes to pursue future new works projects in Victoria that will nurture and excite!
Why Suspicious Mustache?
Darcy's previous Fringe company, MBUH Productions, was in need of a makeover and a more expansive mandate. Suspicious Mustache focuses on creating theatre that grows on you through the development of early-career professionals and new work. Each member of the cast and creative team is a current or recent student at the University of Victoria's Phoenix Theatre. Suspicious Mustache Theatre is exciting, live, local art, right under your nose!
Misfits and Mascots
Darcy Stoop - Artistic Director
Darcy has been involved in theatre for almost a decade. A transplant from Calgary, he got his first taste of Fringe at the local festival as a volunteer and a stage manager. Since then, he has worked as a director, producer, designer, performer, marketer, administrator and box office attendent at various venues in Calgary and his new home in Victoria, where he recently received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with a specialization in Directing from the University of Victoria. He currently serves as the Marketing Director for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, Victoria's newest professional theatre company. He directed Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me at the 2009 Victoria Fringe Festival, which was selected as the Pick of the Fringe - Best Drama.
Cat Haywood - Resident Designer
Cat was born and raised in Victoria and despite leaving to get her BA(H) from Queen's University in Kingston, returned to Victoria to obtain her Masters of Fine Arts in Costume & Set Design, which she did in 2010. Cat has worked as a designer with Single Thread and Chaos Theory in Kingston, the Phoenix Theatre (where she earned her MFA and also taught costume design in the Spring 2011 semester) and Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre (including the 2011 productions of Blithe Spirit and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) in Victoria, and as an assistant to the designer at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton.
Stephen the Kakapo - Mascot
Stephen is an 8" plush Kakapo brought home by Darcy from his recent trip to New Zealand. He serves as the company's mascot and enjoys booming, sleeping, and lending moral support.
