Founding Members
Keara Barnes
Keara is an actor, writer and co-founder of Standing Room Only Theatre. Recent acting credits include Hug (2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival), The Mikado, The Hollow (Metro Theatre), Waiting for Ghostbusters (Genus Theatre). She has worked as a reviewer for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is also a blogger and coordinator for The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance. Born and raised in Vancouver, she holds a BFA in Theatre from The University of Victoria and also trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. She worked for the Abbey Theatre, The National Theatre of Ireland, for three years and has also lived in England and Australia. She blogs about her two passions, theatre and travel at www.traveltheatrics.com
Tracy-Lynn Chernaske
Tracy-Lynn has had a ten year love affair with the visual aspects of theatre, one which started in high school, continued through Capilano University (2007) and which she personally hopes will never end. Though technically a free lance Scenic Artist, Tracy-Lynn has been the resident Scenic Painter and Set Decorator at Metro Theatre for the last four years, creating wonderfully rich and realistic looking sets for classic plays such as Brighton Beach Memoirs, Relatively Speaking and The Hollow. Outside of Metro, Tracy-Lynn has worked for theatres and theatre groups all over the Lower Mainland, including Fighting Chance Productions (Rent) and most recently the Kay Meek (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune), in which she was required to paint a 32' realistic moon across the stage.
Flirtations with film are interspersed throughout her already impressive career, a foray which has seen her work with household Canadian names such as K-os and Michael Buble. Tracy's true passion however lies in theatre, tea and Scottie dogs, and she dreams of the day when she has a job which marries the three together. Until then she very much looks forward to her extended stay with Metro Theatre and her latest venture with Standing Room Only.
Joe Hinks
Joe Hinks is a film and theatre all-rounder. He's dabbled in acting, directing, writing, producing and even teaching the subjects, pegging his two years of teaching at University level and acting at the Edinburgh Fringe festival as his crowning achievements thus far.
A British national, coming to Canada has solidified his pride and awareness in his English and Welsh heritage, whilst also finding him embracing his new home. Fairly new to the Vancouver theatre scene, Joe was proud that his Canadian directorial debut, Agatha Christie's The Hollow, made it onto Vancouverscape's top ten list of Vancouver theatre productions of 2013. He was voted onto Metro Theatre's board of directors in the wake of the show, where he is currently producing A. R. Gurney's What I did Last Summer. He is very much looking forward to pushing theatrical boundaries and exploring new avenues with his Standing Room Only troupe.
In his spare time, Joe thinks about embarking on a PhD adventure and about finishing that all important first novel.