Carrie Lee Pengilly is the Artistic Director of Free My Muse Theatre Company in Yorkton with studios in Melville, Langenburg and Canora, Saskatchewan. Free My Muse offers classes and productions for students of all ages with focuses on Acting, Improvisation and Theatre for Young Audiences. Originally from Southern Alberta, Carrie spent her formative years training in theatre, voice and acting and majored in Drama Education at the University of Lethbridge. During this time, she performed as an Actor with companies such as New West Theatre and Theatreworks while instructing Drama and Speech at the Lethbridge Community College through the Conservatory of Performing Arts.

Miss Carrie began with the Dr. Brass Performing Arts Academy in its first year as the Academy’s Drama Instructor alongside the leadership of Tammy Kostersky and has been part of the teaching team since.

Carrie is inspired traveling the province adjudicating for the Saskatchewan Drama Association and for Theatre Saskatchewan. She has also facilitated through the Saskatchewan Elocution and Debate Association as well as adjudicated the provincial Spoken Word and Speech Arts Festival for the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association. She also instructs Musical Theatre and Performing Arts Littles at Dance Innovations Inc. in Yorkton.

As a writer and director, Carrie’s greatest joys come from collaboration with students in collectively created pieces. She knows that Theatre Education in an Academy format offers so many life skill opportunities including the most important building of confidence and self understanding. She believes that Performing Arts can be for everyone and anyone and that sometimes it is “just what is needed” to provide a safe, creative, regulating and self-esteem lifting environment.