Thrasso Petras

Acting

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A Vancouver based theatre artist and a graduate of UBC and TooBa Physical Theatre Centre, Thrasso appeared as Joshua in the Canadian premiere of Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi. Other acting credits include gender challenged Herculine/Derek in Caryl Churchill's A Mouthful of Birds; the murdered, yet still sprightly, Parfait in To Please the Audience, a new play by Canadian playwright Elaine Avila; Hermius in the all-male cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream; Ned Blunt in The Rover; Solyony in Three Sisters; the Client in Dacia Maraini's Dialogue Between A Prostitute and Her Client; and Bobby in Love! Valour! Compassion!.

Thrasso debuted as a director (Such A Sweet Thing) for the Walking Fish Festival at the Playwright's Theatre Centre.

Publicity credits include Burn Gloom: Rituals on Millennium Eve (Canada Council Millennium Grant, Vancouver), Desdemona (Vancouver Fringe), and the ReelFast 48 Hour Film Festival (www.reelfastfilms.com).

Continually training as an interdisciplinary artist, Thrasso utilizes his physical training and image work to create a broader base upon which to lay his research. Thrasso's curiosity is held by the synthesis of the spoken word with the physical gesture: peeling away the layers of the human condition. He is eager to participate in original as well as extant works that consider the little surgeries that take place on our collective psyche without our ever realizing.

With Claire Fogal, Thrasso is an Artistic Director of Cor Departure Theatre Ensemble.