Albertus Koett

Albertus was born in Red Deer, Alberta, and has lived in the area for his whole life. He attended the Red Deer College Theatre and Motion Picture Arts programs from 2003-2006 and 2010-2011, and has been working as a professional director, playwright, and actor in central Alberta since 2006.

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He is most proud of being the writer and director of the highly successful Central Alberta Theatre series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. From 2017-2019, Albertus adapted eight Sherlock Holmes short stories and novellas, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,  into plays, and he then directed a sold-out series, that spanned six-installments and 24-performances, at the Red Deer Memorial Centre. Albertus is in the process of additional drafts, and aims to have them published. 

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His other directing credits include Antony and Cleopatra for Prime Stock Theatre in 2017, for their Bard on Bower Festival, It's a Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Drama for Ignition Theatre in 2009, Alice in Wonderland (2008), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (2012), Steel Magnolias (2013), Soul Mates (2016), and Some Girl(s) (2017) for Central Alberta Theatre, and various productions with Tree House Youth Theatre, including Little Women (2019) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (2021).

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As an actor, Albertus has appeared as Hamlet in Hamlet and Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream for the 2014 Prime Stock Theatre Bard on Bower Festival, as various in The Laramie Project (2007) for Ignition Theatre, Gilbert in Anne of Green Gables (2009), Stanley in Brighton Beach Memoirs (2005), Tom in Opening Night (2003), and Geoff in Return Engagements (2002) for Central Alberta Theatre, and as Tristan Tzara in ...the dada play (2006), as the Ferryman in The Bundle (2005), as the Tin-Man in Wizard of Oz (2005), The Rabbi in Village of Idiots (2004) and Lyle in Footloose (2003) while attending the Red Deer College Theatre Program (2003-2006)

 

In addition to nine Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ​plays, as a playwright, Albertus has also adapted versions of Williams Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Romeo and Juliet. Additionally, Albertus has written many award winning one-act plays, including Soulmates and Lasagna, Old Age of Horror, I Want to Wake Up, and Me and Hunter Thompson. Old Age of Horror was co-written with Against the Wall Theatre and Bullskit founder Jenna Goldade, and was featured at the Calgary Fringe Festival (2008).

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For film, Albertus co-directed the award winning short film Bonheur (2011), which was featured at the Edmonton International Film Festival in 2012. The co-director of Bonheur, Starlise Waschuk, is an alumni of THYT, and the current co-Artistic Director of Prime Stock Theatre. Albertus has directed a number of short films, including Misquote Romance (2009) for Artsparks at the Library, and an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet (2021) for Tree House Youth Theatre.

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Albertus was a professional mentor, writer, actor, and facilitator for the Butt Ugly Anti-Tobacco Touring Company in Red Deer from 2006-2012. The aim of this program was to create original plays to tour to middle schools throughout central Alberta to teach the harms of tobacco. This award winning program utilized teens as actors and writers, and contributed to the central zone in Alberta having one of the lowest rates of smoking for middle school and high school in Alberta.

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Albertus lives in Red Deer with his wife, Tara, and their dog Daisy-Mae. He is an avid supporter of Nottingham Forest Football Club, a two-time European Champion (1979, 1980) and Cavalry FC, the reining CPL Champions (2024).