About
Our story…
Our Beginnings
Delta Stageworks Theatre takes its inspiration from the Canadian theatre practice of collective creation, a play development process that got its start in the 1970s in Canada. A group of actor/writers collaborate with a community to create a show based on inquiry and investigation into a burning social issue or moment . The resulting show would be performed for the community, offering a reflective insight into often complex social issues. Now known as DEVISED THEATRE, it is a practice we employ with our associate artists and members of the community to create many of our shows. The company was founded in 2020, just as the pandemic changed the world.
Our Vision
Delta Stageworks Theatre Society brings innovative theatre arts based community projects to Delta with the goal of connecting people who live here with local stories and social issues past and present. We bring together both professional theatre artists, community-based theatre artists and community groups in educational workshops, devised theatre creations and site-specific presentations to offer innovative theatre productions to Delta audiences. We are committed to the values of equity, diversity and inclusion in all that we do.
Our Team
Peg Christopherson-Keenleyside
A founding member of Delta Stageworks Theatre, Peg is a writer/director and independent theatre producer with credits in both professional and community theatre. She has also performed in Canada as an actor and is a member of the Canadian Actors Equity Association (CAEA) and UBCP/ACTRA.
A graduate of the University of Alberta and the Banff Centre of Fine Arts, Alberta, she trained in the theatre practice collective creation (now known as devised theatre) as well as traditional forms of theatre presentation.
Based in Toronto in her early career years, she co-wrote and appeared in a number of new Canadian plays, including Smoke Damage (Nightwood Theatre), Blue City Slammers (Blyth Festival) and Hockey Wives (FactoryTheatre). She also produced the critically acclaimed Hockey Wives . Peg was also a member of the renowned Nightwood Theatre feminist theatre collective; a new play development touchstone for emerging women’s theatre voices in Canada founded in Toronto in the 1980s.
As a performer Peg has appeared at the National Arts Centre (Young Company), Canadian Stage, The Blyth Festival, Richmond Gateway, Kelowna’s Sunshine Theatre and Genesis Theatre among others.
Directing and producing credits include In Their Nightgowns, Dancing (UBC Brave New Works) and the Canadian political comedy Proud at Capilano University. She has also written, directed and produced for community theatre and site-specific heritage theatre events; including Delta’s Sidekick Players and the City of Lynden, Washington, Pioneer Museum (2000 & 2001). For Delta Stageworks: Delta 1914-1918: A Living History (2018), Then & Now Pandemic Life Stories (2023), Heirlooms & Baggage (My Mother’s Story) (2023 and Tour 2025) and A 1920s Murder Mystery (2025/2026). With shameless hussy productions, To Perfection (2024)
Peg has lived in South Delta since 2003 where she has raised her two children.
Eric Keenleyside
Eric Keenleyside is an actor (CAEA, ACTRA/UBCP, SAG) with decades of experience on stage and screen. A founding member of Delta Stageworks Theatre Society, he brings experience as a workshop leader and theatre educator to the company’s projects.
Eric is a graduate of the University of Windsor with a BFA in Acting, and apprenticed at the Stratford Festival at the beginning of a career that has taken him from Toronto, Ontario to Los Angeles, to Lynden, WA, and to Tsawwassen, BC, where he lives with his beautiful and talented family.
To find out more about Eric Keenleyside’s film and TV credits, visit his IMDB page:
2025-2026 ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
CLIFF CAPRANI
Cliff is the Then & Now, Pandemic Life Stories visual story-teller and has shaped the stories from the show into a digital edition stream available on Vimeo in 2022.
He has been making short films and documentaries since the turn of the century. He has worked with the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster and with Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver.
His most ambitious project to date was Countdown To Sanctuary Wood, his 2017 documentary about a Ladner, BC man who served during WWI.
He has been associated with Delta Stageworks since 2018.
CAMRYN CHEW
Camryn (she/they) is an artist and educator living and working on the unceded lands of the Tsawwassen, Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Her practice is focused on gentle structure, flexibility, and sustainability.
She is a 2020 graduate of Capilano University’s Acting for Stage and Screen program, where she played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Camryn is a teaching artist with Carousel Theatre and Bard on the Beach, and furthered her artistic and teaching practice in Summer 2022 with Bard on the Beach as part of the Riotous Youth internship. She is currently participating in the Arts Club’s young playwriting program. Her original play Sometimes I Feel Like I’m Not Even Me has been performed in New Jersey, San Diego, and Vancouver.
Instagram: @camrynchew
NICK KEENLEYSIDE
Nick Keenleyside (he/they) Nick is a recent graduate of the Delta Youth Theatre pre-professional musical theatre training program where he recently appeared as Jack Kelly in Newsies.
Other leads include Harold Hill in Music Man (DYT) and Gomez in The Addams Family (SDSS/Equinox Theatre).
With Delta Stageworks, he has appeared in Then & Now, Pandemic Life Stories (2021/2022).
RENEE IACI
Renee Iaci is an actress, director and storyteller who lives in Delta.
She is a co-founder and co-artistic director of shameless hussy productions.
Her acting credits include Bedtime Stories for Amazons, Bonnie Dangerously, Marion Bridge (Jessie award nominee) and Summer of My Amazing Luck.
Her directing credits include the hussies’ Jessie Richardson award winning production of Frozen (Outstanding Actor) as well as Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal, My Left Breast, Son of a Bitch Stew, the drunken life of Calamity Jane, and most recently, Evan Placey’s Girls Like That.
Renee was nominated for Outstanding Director at the 2014 Jessie Richardson Awards for her work on Dissolve, by Meghan Gardiner. The following year Love Bomb (also by Meghan Gardiner) won two Ovation awards including Outstanding Production. Dissolve and Love Bomb continue to tour NorthAmerica.
Renee is a graduate of the BFA Acting program at UBC.
RAGINI KAPIL
Ragini Kapil is a multi-faceted creative with a growing list of credits in film, TV and live performance as a performer, writer, director and producer.
After a full career as an educator in the Delta School District, in 2015 Ragini pursued a life-long calling and dived into screenwriting, acting and the art of comedic storytelling.
It’s led to the founding of her own film production company, stand-up comedy and acting credits (Yuk Yuks, House Of Comedy, Anvil Centre, Hallmark), as well as writing and directing credits that include the short film All Kinds of Weather (2020) (Best Short Shakti Film Festival, Winner and Special Appreciation MultiDimension Film Festival, Semi-Finalist Berlin Short Film Contest).
Currently she is completing a new feature length film script and editing her docu-short The Comedy Doula (2021).
In 2022, Ragini joins Delta Stageworks’ My Mother’s Story for Diverse Voices Project as a writer/actor collaborator as we transform personal narratives into theatre.
MARILYN NORRY
Since receiving a BFA from York University, Marilyn Norry has spent 40 years cultivating careers in acting, writing, teaching, editing and producing (CAEA, UBCP/ACTRA).
Favourite stage roles include Heidi Holland in The Heidi Chronicles (Vancouver Playhouse), Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel (Firehall Theatre), Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (UnitedPlayers).
On screen she has worked with directors Steven Spielberg (The BFG), Gillian Armstrong (Little Women), Brian De Palma (Mission to Mars), and with actors Johnny Depp, Sam Shepherd, Leonardo di Caprio and many, many great actors who live and work right here in BC.
She is also the creator and producer of My Mother’s Story, a multimedia campaign encouraging people to write the story of their mothers’ lives so women’s history is valued, saved and shared.
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