Randall Wiebe

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Randall Wiebe
Born Morden, Manitoba, Canada

Randall G. Wiebe is a playwright, stage actor, [1] voice actor, [2] artistic director, [3] creative director, chaplain, [4] art instructor, [5] and artist living in Rosebud, Alberta, Canada. [6] He was born in Morden, Manitoba, and was the artistic director for the Canadian Badlands Passion Play, [3] a production that he says includes "professionals and people that have never been on stage before." [7] He has also acted in the play, portraying characters as diverse as Jairus, Barrabas, Bartimaeus, [8] Judas and Jesus. [9] Originally the playwright for the Passion Play, he has since been variously the play's artistic director, creative director and chaplain from 2006 to 2012. [4] Wiebe also wrote his own 55-minute, one-man Passion play called Thomas: Confessions of a Doubter and has performed this play more than 350 times, mostly in Western Canada, but also in Malaysia, Guam, Hawaii and Venezuela from 2002 to 2012. [1] As a voice actor, he has acted in Hunter × Hunter , Mega Man Powered Up and Mega Man X8 , portraying such characters as Dr. Light. [2] Wiebe is a visual art instructor at the Rosebud School of the Arts [5] in Rosebud, Alberta and graphic design instructor at Prairie College in Three Hills, Alberta.

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References

  1. 1 2 Mario Toneguzzi (May 11, 2012). "Play on Doubting Thomas set for Strathmore". Calgary Herald . Retrieved July 31, 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Randall Wiebe (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved August 29, 2012. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. 1 2 "Passion Play set to rise again". Calgary Herald . June 22, 2008. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Randall Wiebe". Canadian Badlands Passion Play. 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  5. 1 2 "Rosebud Summer Art Intensive: August 3 – 12, 2012". Rosebud School of the Arts. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  6. ↑ Erin Steele. "Rosebud artist coming to Peace River to teach classes at Horizon". The Record-Gazette. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  7. ↑ Patrick Kolafa (June 9, 2008). "Your chance to be in the Passion Play". Drumheller Mail . Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  8. ↑ Margaret Deefholts. "Judea is Closer Than You Think". Travel Writers Tales. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  9. ↑ Sharon McLeay (May 18, 2012). "Doubt turns to faith". Strathmore Times. Retrieved August 29, 2012.


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