Campfire Girls

Paul Gogo of the legendary band Trooper is looking for talent for his recently completed Rock Opera called Campfire Girls . Female performers between the ages of 15 and 35 are welcome to audition in an open casting call April 28 at the Cotton Club at The Cottonwood Golf Course in Nanaimo from 9am - 12pm. Tracy-Lyn LeSire partnered with Gogo to write the script for what will be both a stage production and a possible television series.

Associate Producer and casting director for this project is Jacqui Kaese of Spotlight Academy, who will oversee the audition session with choreographer Irene Booth of Tempo Dance Academy. Hopeful girls should bring a prepared song with their own music on tape or cd, and be ready to learn a short dance choreography and lines to be provided at the audition. So if you are a triple-threat performer and ready to rock the campfire, book your audition slot with Jacqui Kaese at (250)722-0098 or e-mail spotlight@shaw.ca.

Callbacks will be conducted on Sunday April 29th in the same location.

Paul Gogo has been Trooper's keyboardist for the last eleven years. He studied classical dance, piano, religion, swimming, and he dropped out of high school to go on the road with his rock band. Now he obsesses with multi-media art and has a great time living in a 20' x 20' studio with no phone or plumbing.

Irene Booth is the owner and Director of Tempo Dance Academy in Nanaimo. Graduating with distinction from from the Grant MacEwan Dance Teacher's Program, Irene is a fully registered teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance and the Canadian Dance Teacher's Association. During her spare time she serves as the Chairman of the Ballet Division for the Canadian Dance Teacher's Association. With twenty plus years of teaching experience Irene devotes much of her time to mentoring and teaching her students as well as operating the school on a full time basis. She is a highly respected teacher and her students enjoy her sense of humor and her passion and love of dance in all forms.

Jacqui Kaese of Nanaimo's Spotlight Academy, trains young thespians for commercials, television and film. Kaese has trained Cameron Bright (X-Men 3, Thank You For Smoking), Colin Ford (In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale), Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds), Sophie Hough and Erika Shaye Gair (The Wicker Man) as well as many other talented people for the entertainment industry. Kaese has experience with Rock Operas, as her first big break was on London's West End Theatrical hit Stag Night by Willis Hall and appeared alongside Sting in the cult movie Quadrophenia. She has also been a backup singer for stars like Tina Turner, Annie Lennox and Robert Palmer.

The Cotton Club is at the Cottonwood Golf Course, located at 1975 Haslam Rd, in Cassidy, Nanaimo's south-end.

Cameron in 3 Films

Spotlight Academy wishes to congratulate young Cameron Bright on the success of his three movies releasing within a month of each other. Tonight sees the premiere of the gritty Running Scared in which Cameron plays Oleg, a young boy who steals a gun from his best friend’s house. When the father, Paul Walker star of Eight Below and 2 Fast 2 Furious, discovers the weapon is missing, he has to find it before his mob bosses or the police.

One week later, March 3, Ultraviolet, the Sci-Fi drama from director Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium) begins. Mila Jovovich (The Fifth Element, Resident Evil) stars as Violet, a rogue warrior bent on destroying a government time bomb designed to destroy her people. When she discovers the device is a nine-year-old boy (Cameron) she has to face an army of government warriors and keep them from the boy.

March 17^th sees the limited North American release of Thank You For Smoking starring Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright and Adam Brody. Eckhart plays Nick, (as in nicotine) a tobacco lobbyist who works hard to debate the issues in favor of his employers until he discovers the role model he has become to his son (Cameron).

Cameron appeared in a double episode of Vancouver based Stargate SG-1 last year and has previous television credits on Dark Angel and Higher Ground. Cameron’s film credits include The Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher, Godsend with Robert De Niro, and Birth with Nicole Kidman and Lauren Bacall.

When he’s not working on a film set or attending grade 8 classes in Nanaimo or just being a kid, 13 year-old Victoria born Cameron is coached for up coming projects at Nanaimo’s Spotlight Academy. Instructors Jacqui Kaese (recently coaching Blake Woodruff on the set of Hellion) and her team including Bart Anderson, Adrian Hough (The Fog) and Marina Darling, have assisted in taking students to a whole new level.