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SOUTHERN INTERIOR , is a new 6-episode sketch comedy series set deep in the mountains of Nelson British Columbia, the last earnest place on earth. Satirizing and celebrating the eclectic citizenship, the show is concerned with how tight proximities can promote community where residents chase cynicism away one kombucha at a time.
STARRING
LUCAS MYERS
Since graduating from the National Theatre School in 1998 Lucas Myers has performed in many of the major theatres across Canada as well as touring internationally to the US, England, France, Switzerland, Mexico, Singapore, New Zealand, and Brunei. He studied physical theatre and collaborative creation with The SITI Company in New York and Boca del Lupo Theatre in Vancouver. In 2007 he returned to Nelson, BC to raise a family and form PilotcoPilot Theatre.
MICHELLE HART
Michelle Hart has trained, taught, and performed with theatre institutions across North America. Michelle is the recipient of the Pat & Tony Freedom Fund, Outstanding Sketch/Improv Productions from My Entertainment weekly, and was featured on JFL42 Sirius FX Just For Laughs Festival. She has worked as a cast member for MSC Seaside, The Second City, Bad Dog Theatre Feature Players and is actively involved in The Canadian Improv Games where she is the Co-Director of Improvcamp.
JONATHAN RAMOS
Jonathan Ramos is a Filipino-Canadian with two decades of experience in the film and music industries acting in a variety of commercials and performing at renowned music festivals, including Shambhala. A graduate of the Selkirk College School of the Arts, Jonathan brings a versatile suite of skills as a writer, performer, musician, and digital artist to Southern Interior.
LYNNE KAREY-MCKENNA
Originally from the Chicago area, Lynne trained and worked with Second City and Players Workshop of Second City, as well as award winning improv and theatre groups. She taught Improv and with one of her Improv Groups, Chi-Town Players, created a cable TV show in the very early days of cable TV. She went on to get her Master’s in Psychology inspired by the transformation she witnessed with improv.. She found her theatre homes throughout Vancouver and the Lower Mainland for 32 years and now lives in Creston where the acting career is going strong.
THE BRIEF BACKSTORY
Countless fans of Nelson can imagine a homegrown TV show in our beloved backyard - a certain version of Portlandia to bring our stranger than fiction bohemian city and all its quirky characters to the screen. The time has come for Southern Interior to be born. Watershed Productions got the ball rolling with a successful application to Creative BC's Domestic Picture Fund alongside top up funding from Canadian Media Producers Association - CMPA. We worked on a pitch deck and assembled the writing team. Sioux Browning and Morgan Brayton came on as the Story Editors to work with Amy Bohigian, show Creator, to give the show a shape and a voice. Creative BC's profile of Showrunner, Amy Bohigian, can be found here in their featured online BC Creates page.
Then, with a Major Project Grant from Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, the writing team stepped in the writer's room and started writing sketches in the Fall of 2022. Auditions for the Demo Reel cast were held around the same time with unprecedented interest from the acting community. The featured talent in our Demo Reel bring a mix of Second City comedy, TV acting and professional stage careers to Southern Interior. We landed distribution with Shaftesbury, a legacy media company based in Toronto and we're thrilled to have Gregory Mackenzie, veteran of TV and film, as our Producer for the series. Southern Interior moved from development into pre-production after having been selected as one of the ten Bell Fund recipients across Canada in 2023.
The cast and crew shot for two weeks in July 2024 making magic all around Nelson. Hundreds of people took part from the goat handler to the festival dancer background performers to the owners of several local business who generously offered us their location to film! We wrapped post production in December 2024 and are ready to launch this homegrown series into the stratosphere early in 2025.
