Juan Carlos Velis

Juan Carlos Velis is an actor and playwright who studied acting at the University of Windsor and graduated with an honors fine arts degree. He has performed in theaters across Canada and the United States, among them the Grand Theatre in London, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Soulpepper Theatre Company and the Kravis Center. His play Further Beyond was chosen for the 2000 SummerWorks Theatre Festival and put on at the Main Stage of the Factory Theatre. It then went to London's Grand Theatre, where it drew full houses and critical praise. In 2001 he belonged to Cahoot's Theatre Projects' Playwright's Unit, where he finished The 8 o'clock Train under Guillermo Verdecchia's direction. A one man show he co-wrote, Borderlines, ran successfully in Vancouver. He was a founding member of Acropolis Theatre Company and served as its artistic director and executive producer, and he worked in commercials, print and voice. He directed his first short, Hereafter.