Carmen is a multiple-award winning theatre artist and author and a Core Artist at Electric Company Theatre. She is the writer of the international bestseller Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter and its bestselling sequel Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution. She has written and co-written twenty-five plays and has over eighty film, tv, and stage acting credits. www.carmenaguirre.ca

Jordan Arseneault (b. New Brunswick, 1980) is a critic, drag performer, social artist, meeting facilitator and translator. His staged work and participative workshops address issues of criminalization, stigma, mental health, HIV/AIDS, addiction, biculturalism, queerness and community. Former editor of Quebec’s only English language monthly for the LGBT community, 2Bmag (2010-2013), his reviews and articles have been published in Maisonneuve, Nightlife.ca, Forget the Box. He currently lives in Montreal.

Makram Ayache is a Lebanese Canadian playwright, director, actor, and theatre producer who splits his time between Edmonton and Toronto. His work explores meaningful representation of Queer Arab experiences. At it’s core, his art is an attempt at bridging complex political realities with the intimate lived experiences of the people involved. www.makramayache.com

Based in Montreal and Pittsburgh (and any place with stable wifi), Deena is an actor, dramaturge and industry advocate in theatre and film. She has “followed the work” across Canada, in the US, and internationally, but these days, like many, she’s been sticking close to home.

Allison (a proud Newfoundlander based in Toronto) is a performer, creator, talent coordinator, and teacher. Credits include: Flying Hearts (Theatre Direct), Newfie Electra (TIFT), This Is Nowhere (Zuppa Theatre co.). Allison trained at East 15 and Dal Theatre. She is the recipient of ‘Best Supporting Actor’ by Joyful Magpies’ Best of Fredericton Theatre.  www.allisonbasha.com

Catherine Ballachey is a Vancouver-based dramaturg and administrator. She completed her MA in Dramaturgy at the University of Ottawa in 2016. In 2009, she received her BFA in Performance Theatre and French from Simon Fraser University. She has worked with many local companies including Neworld Theatre, Pi Theatre, Electric Company Theatre, and Théâtre la Seizième.

Martin Bellemare was nominated for the 2020 Siminovitch Prize and awarded the 2009 Gratien Gélinas Prize. His La Liberté was presented at La Rubrique (Jonquière, 2013), Montreal (2015), and was scheduled to be staged in Ottawa in 2020. Maître Karim la perdrix (2018 Prix SACD de la dramaturgie francophone, awarded by the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques) will premiere at the Théâtre des Capucins in Luxembourg in 2021.  Moule Robert (shortlisted for the 2017 Prix SACD de la dramaturgie francophone and the 2018 Michel Tremblay Prize) was produced simultaneously at La Rubrique and at the POCHE/ GVE in Geneva, then at Théâtre de Belleville in Paris. His work has been produced in Quebec, France, Poland and Switzerland and translated into German, Italian and Lithuanian.

Vancouver-born, London-based, mixed Caucasian/Japanese/Chinese woman who acts, writes, directs for theatre and film. Graduated with Distinction from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama’s MA Acting for Screen. Recipient of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Award 2019 and in 2020, New Earth Theatre’s BESEA Professional Writers Programme.

Nathalie Boisvert holds a BA in acting and a MA in drama from the University of Quebec. In 1997, her first play, L’histoire sordide de Conrad B., was performed at the Festival de Spa (Belgium), remounted in Brussels and translated into English by Bobby Theodore. In 1999, her work, L’été des Martiens (Lansman) premiered simultaneously in Quebec (Théâtre Niveau Parking) and France (La Comédie de la Mandoune) and again produced simultaneously in 2006 in Dusseldorf (Landstheatre) and Berlin (Grips).  In 2006, her play Vie et Mort d’un village, received lauréate des Journées de Lyon (Éditions Comp’Act) and she received le Prix Gratien-Gélinas in 2007 for Buffet chinois. Her Antigone au printemps was shortlisted for the 2018 Governor General’s Award French Language Drama and received the Prix Émile-Augier. Antigone is currently being translated to English by Hugh Hazelton.

Leanna Brodie is a Jessie-nominated actor (for Pi Theatre’s Terminus and Théâtre la Seizieme’s Bonjour, là, bonjour); an Artistic Associate of Ruby Slippers Theatre; and an MFA candidate at the University of Calgary. She is currently co-writing Salesman in China with Jovanni Sy and translating several new Québec plays. www.leannabrodie.com

Jay is seemingly everywhere. His TV work includes SUPERNATURAL, PSYCH, STARGATE SGI, BATES MOTEL, ROGUE, WEST WING, THE X FILES, and THE KILLING. Films: DOUBLE JEOPARDY, WATCHMEN, INSOMNIA, BEST IN SHOW, COOL RUNNINGS, WE’RE NO ANGELS, THE POSSESSION, LITTLE WOMEN, and many others. Jay’s favourite theatre roles includes: “The Drowsy Chaperone” (NAC, Vancouver Playhouse), “Fiddler on the Roof” (California The Rubicon Theatre), “The Goat” (Presentation House Theatre), Cyrano (Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s North American Tour of “Wizard of Oz” and the wonderful Edna Turnblad in the Canadian premiere of “Hairspray”. Jay is writing his own play FORTUNATE SONS and co-writing a screenplay THE PROFESSIONALS. IMBD

Lauren is an award-winning actor, creator, and artist educator, her work taking her across Canada and Europe. Her company, Bound to Create (B2C), explores the beauty of dark and light, having partnered with Obsidian, Tapestry, Native Earth and Theatre Northwest, recently expanding to create work for stage, tv and film. www.boundtocreate.com

Scott is a Jessie-nominated actor and writer residing on unceded Coast Salish territory. Look out for his upcoming queer-historical-fiction podcast NIGHT PASSING, presented by the Arts Club Theatre Company. www.scottbutton.ca

Stefanie lives and works in Montréal. She is a graduate of Concordia University and her acting work has spanned over twenty years in theatre, film, television and voice. Selected theatre credits include: Marion Bridge by Daniel MacIvor; On This Day by Alexandria Haber; Province by Mathieu Gosselin; Angel`s Share by Alexis Diamond; The Madonna Painter by Michel Marc Bouchard. Stefanie is also a writer, director and Cégep professor.

I had a glorious almost 50 year run as a pretty constantly employed actress. Lovely people and fond memories.

Rhiannon Collett is a non-binary playwright, performer and translator working in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Selected playwriting credits include Miranda & Dave Begin Again (awarded the Playwrights Guild of Canada RBC Emerging Playwright Award); Wasp (Nightswimming/Rhubarb Festival); The Kissing Game (Youtheatre/Young People’s Theatre/Banff Playwrights Lab); Tragic Queens (Cabal Theatre/Wildside Festival). www.rhiannoncollett.com

Eric’s a Montreal actor known for his work in theatre, film, tv, voice-over, and video games. Noteworthy credits include Roland Emmerich’s WWII film MIDWAY; NAC’s production of Tartuffe (adapted by Andy Jones with CODCO members); short film REST STOP, based on Stephen King’s story, for which he won the El Paso Film Festival Best Actor Award. He’s a singer songwriter and performs with the band Summersett.

Dave Deveau is an award-winning writer and performer whose plays and operas have been performed across Canada and in Europe. Plays for Zee Zee include: My Funny Valentine, Nelly Boy, Tiny Replicas, Lowest Common Denominator, Dead People’s Things, Elbow Room Cafe: The Musical and Holiday at the Elbow Room Café. He has also worked with Green Thumb Theatre, Theatre la Seizieme, Theatre Direct, Tapestry New Opera Works, Buddies in Bad Times, Roseneath Theatre, the PuSh Festival and the Vancouver International Children’s Festival. His drag alter-ego Peach Cobblah can be seen hosting politics-forward drag events across the Lower Mainland. He is a graduate of York University and UBC’s MFA Playwriting program.

Alexis is an anglophone theatre artist, opera and musical librettist, translator and theatre curator working on both sides of Montréal’s linguistic divide. Her award-winning plays, operas and translations have been presented across Canada, in the U.S. and in Europe. Alexis Diamond served as co-artistic director of the famed Festival Jamais Lu. Alexis has translated two of Marie-Claude’s other plays, Je n’y suis plus (I’m Not Here) and Andys gone. www.compositetheatre.com

Rick Dobran is an actor and writer living in Vancouver, BC. Rick is very excited to be able to contribute to this creative effort even through the pandemic.

Chris is a Jessie award-winning actor, who was born in Montréal, Québec and raised on the south shore in St-Hubert.  Chris has been featured in various commercials, television and film roles. Before the pandemic, Chris would have been seen in Le NoShow Vancouver, which was his French theatrical debut with Théâtre La Seizième.

Allegra Fulton is an award winning actor and director, whose distinguished career has taken her across Canada, the U.S. and Europe winning accolades and critical praise portraying iconoclasts, sexy and dangerous women. She is proud to have shepherded the Catalan translation of THE LIST by Jennifer Tremblay, and directed the Catalan premiere of LA LLISTA in Barcelona’s prestigious LLuire Theatre, after having performed the English premiere of this wonderful play in Toronto. Her great grandfather, Jesus Garcia, having left Asturias settled in Australia, making a life for himself and his family, and at 40 years of age, returned to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. He was caught in Barcelona and hidden by a family who helped him get back to Australia.  Grateful to be part of a play educating us all about a war that still is not easily, or often, spoken of. www.allegrafulton.com

Lucia Frangione is an award winning actor and internationally produced playwright from Vancouver. Favourite roles include Annie in Misery for the Arts Club, Rosa in Espresso for The Belfry and Estelle in No Exit for the Electric Theatre Co/Virtual Stage. www.LuciaFrangione.com

LISA L’HEUREUX is an Ottawa-based playwright, director, and dramaturg. She is a graduate of University of Ottawa (B.A. in Theatre and History) and of University of British Columbia (M.A. in Theatre Research). With her company, Théâtre Rouge Écarlate, she has created Ciseaux, Pour l’hiver (Prix Jacques-Poirier 2017), and Et si un soir, cocreated Proximité and directed Projet D.  She has contributed to many collaborative pieces, such as À quoi ça sert d’être brillant si t’éclaires personne (NAC French Theatre). As a dramaturg, Lisa worked with Satellite Théâtre (Moncton) and with Sudbury playwright Antoine Côté Legault.

Ming is a performer, director, deviser, facilitator, and teacher who specializes in physical theatre and the creation of new work as a collective ensemble. She has worked with The Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, Theatre Replacement, Atomic Vaudeville, The Firehall, and Boca del Lupo, and is currently a faculty member at CCPA.

John Innes was an early graduate of the National Theatre School (’67). He has performed in every major regional theatre in Canada, including 12 seasons with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival where he received a Tyrone Guthrie Award twice. He has also performed in regional theatres in the United States including 3 seasons with the Denver Center Theatre Company. In all, he has been a working actor for over 55 years.

Nimet is an award winning Theatre and TV/Film actor and has had the pleasure of working with Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica), Kevin Sorbo (Paradox) and John Cusack (Martian Child) amongst other notable names. Her theatre credits include ‘Sultans of the Street’ (Carousel Theatre), ‘9 Parts of Desire’ (The Maggie Tree) and ‘Victim Impact’ (Theatre Conspiracy).

Mishka Lavigne  is a playwright and literary translator based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her translation work for theatre has been seen in Ottawa, Montreal, and France. Her translations of poetry are published in Ontario and Québec, included the recently published Cette blessure est un territoire, a French translation of Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize winning collection This Wound is a World. Her own works include Cinéma (Théâtre la Catapulte and Théâtre Belvédère.), Vigile (Théâtre Rouge Écarlate). Her play Havre won the 2019  Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama (French).

Julie is an actor and theatre artist from the Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver) and is currently residing in the Kulin Nations of the Boon Wurrung First Peoples (Melbourne). She has worked for numerous companies across Canada including Belfry Theatre, Arts Club Theatre, Western Canada Theatre, Green Thumb Theatre and Caravan Farm Theatre. Julie is a graduate of Studio 58.

An award-winning actor and theatre creator based in Tiohtiá:ke /Montréal, Julie has performed across the country and beyond from the NAC (Ottawa) to Factory (Toronto) to the Firehall (Vancouver) to the Festival Grec (Barcelona).  Her play The Tashme Project (with Matt Miwa) was published in 2019 and she is currently writing her third play, Mizushōbai.

Chris McGregor has a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from Bishop’s University and a Masters in Theatre in Directing from the University of British Columbia. Chris has taught physical theatre, Commedia dell’arte, mask and Red Nose Clown at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Bishop’s University and Studio 58. He has directed more than 60 productions across Canada and has won four Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards and nominated for four Ovation Awards for directing. Chris began as the Artistic Associate with Axis Theatre Company in 2014 and was appointed Artistic Director in 2015.

Since graduating l’École de théâtre du Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe, Marie-Eve Milot has been deeply involved in the theatre world. As an actress, she has collaborated with Hugo Bélanger (Princess Turandot, Pinocchio, Peter et Alice), Marc Beaupré (Ce samedi il pleuvait), Serge Denoncourt (Thérèse et Pierrette à l’École des Saints-Anges), Geneviève L. Blais (Si les oiseaux, Local B-1717) and Sébastien David Scratch. She was seen le Petit Théâtre de La Colline in Paris, in Les barbelés by Annick Lefebvre, staged by Alexia Boerger, and then remounted the show at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous. She can be seen on large and small screen (Les pays d’en haut, 5e rang).

Eric Noel is a Quebecois playwright and graduate of NTS French language writing program. They are the author of Faire des enfants (2009), Tirade pour Henri (2010), Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés (2015) and L’Amoure Looks Something Like You (2020). They are also the author of a libretto for an opera by Vincent-Olivier
Gagnon, Sans électricité, les oiseaux disparaissent (2009), and the children’s theatre piece La Mère, le Père, le Petit et le Grand (2012). They also adapted Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince for Theatre La Roulotte with “Asteroid B 612” (2018).

Johanna Nutter is artistic director of creature/creature, a polymorphic company born of Nutter’s passion for blurring lines between established divisions. Her work has toured extensively throughout her home province of Quebec, across Canada and internationally, in both English and French, to such venues as Soho Theatre (London), The Pleasance (Edinburgh), Les Halles (Brussels), and La Licorne (Montreal). She won the PWM/Cole Emerging Translator award and brought CHLORINE (Longpré & Michon), which produced and directed at The Centaur (Brave New Looks 2016). She is currently working on texts by Annick Lefèbvre, Guillaume Corbeil, and Étienne Lepage.

Paul David Power has spent  25 years working as a writer, playwright, actor and director.  His leadership positions include President of the Liffey Players Drama Society (Calgary),  Artistic Director for Hubcity Theatre (Moncton) and Artistic Associate for the Shakespeare by the Sea Festival (St. John’s).  Paul is an award winning playwright with  Roomies, Last Chance, The View From Down Here, In Your Eyes and his current critically acclaimed touring production, Crippled. Paul is currently the Artistic Director of Power Productions (NL) – a professional theatre company dedicated to the development of works and artists with a focus on the disabled Deaf and MAD Arts domain. www.powerproductionsnl.com

Brian Postalian (Բրայն Փոսթալյան) is a theatre director, producer, and performance creator born and raised in Toronto/Tkaronto by way of Armenia, Ireland, Wales, and the Czech Republic. He is the founding Artistic Director of Re:Current Theatre, a Toronto/Vancouver based company creating performances that reimagine gathering. www.brianpostalian.com

Christine is an actor, playwright, and co-artistic director of Delinquent Theatre, based on unceded Coast Salish Territory. www.christinequintana.ca

A tawny mix of Ojibwe/Swampy Cree and English/Irish, Lisa is an award-winning, multi-hyphenate theatre artist and emerging scholar. Her work is rooted in Indigenous protocol, ontologies, and decolonial methodologies and is recognized nationally and internationally for its rigour and artistic excellence. Lisa resides on unceded Coast Salish territory. lisacr.com

Suzanne has been a performing artist for over forty years. She is a recipient of the Jessie Richardson award for outstanding actress, 1988, in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. She wrote and produced her first play Poor and is presently in development of a new play: Driving Me Crazy with co-writer Linda Carson, slated for production next year.

Michael is the Artistic Director of November Theatre, whose notable productions include The Black Rider (National Tour) and Hard Core Logo: Live (PuSh Festival). Michael has directed and acted with companies across North America including La Mama (NY), Globe Theatre (Regina), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ex Machina (Quebec), Tarragon (Toronto), Arts Club Theatre (Vancouver), Catalyst Theatre (Edmonton) and Belfry Theatre (Victoria) to name a few.  www.novembertheatre.com

Kim Selody has worked as a writer, director, and actor in Canada and internationally for over 30 years. He has directed more than 100 productions, many world premieres for youth and young audiences. Playwriting credits include Silverwing, The Hobbit, Fool’s Angel, Synthetic Energy, Suddenly Shakespeare and The Last Drop. His reach as a dramaturg has spanned decades, countless projects in many countries. Kim has served as Artistic Director of the Playwrights Theatre Centre, Carousel Players in Southern Ontario, and at Presentation House Theatre since 2011

Marie-Claude St-Laurent is an actor, author, feminist activist, co-editor of La Nef aux Éditions du remue-ménage. On the small screen, she was seen in the popular youth show Vrak La vie and is more recently as a cast member in L’écrivain public III and des Sioui-Bacon V. On stage, she produced Guérilla de l’ordinaire, Chienne(s), Toc Toc, Grease and Aller chercher demain. A member of the steering committee of Espace Go, and collaborated in the research study conducted by the RéQEF.

Philippe Soldevila is a leading francophone director,  playwright, author, and translator. With a BA in French literature (Université Laval) and Theatre (University of Ottawa), he studied at the Conservatory of dramatic art of Quebec. He is the artistic director of Théâtre Sortie de Secours. In May 1998, he received the John Hirsch Award from the Canada Council for the Arts in recognition of his work as a director. He wrote and directed Tale of the Moon (Mask 2006 for Best Production for Young Audiences, Éloizes 2007 Production of the Year Award and ZOF Award of the French Cultural Federation and SAIC).  His artistic approach is guided by his fascination with cultural intermingling and identity issues

Olivier Sylvestre is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his first theatrical play La beauté du monde, which won the Prix Gratien-Gélinas and was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General’s Award for French-language drama at the 2015 Governor General’s Awards, and his short story collection Noms fictifs, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General’s Awards.

Bobby Theodore is a Canadian screenwriter, playwright and translator. He has worked mainly in television and theatre, and is most known for his translation of François Archambault’s 15 Seconds, for which he was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 2000. In 2016 he is the host of the Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac, a retreat that allows playwrights, translators and adaptors from across Canada to develop their projects and exchange ideas with each other. Theodore currently lives in Toronto’s annex.

Deneh’Cho Thompson, Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan is an actor, director, and educator of mixed Indigenous decent. His research interests include Indigenous pedagogies for theatre training, Indigenous dramaturgies, and destabilizing the mainstream theatre forms.

Sabrina Vellani is an Indo-Canadian actor and poet. She graduated from UBC’s BFA Theatre Acting program in 2018. She has acted in Killjoy Theatre’s Burqa Boutique and Axis Theatre’s co-production with Babelle Theatre: All My Friends Are Animals. She was recently in Five Cedar Films’ Speak, which premiered at IFFSA’s 2020 Festival. IMBD

Marie-Claude Verdier’s Award winning play Je n’y suis plus, was produced with the NAC Théâtre français NAC (2013).Her play Nous autres antipodes was nominated for the Prix Gratien-Gélinas and Andy gone, a loose adaptation of Antigone, commisioned and produced by the French company Acessor E sempre, was presented in Avignon, and has toured for the last four years and over 100 performances.
www.agencerbl.com/en/talents/marie-claude-verdier/

Well versed on stage and screen, Gwynyth is happy to be working with Jack Paterson again. Screen credits include Virgin River, Man in the High Castle and Black Summer. Stage credits include The Tempest ( with Jack! ), Mary Stuart, King Charles III, and Barefoot in the Park.

Anais is a queer writer, actor and producer, as well as a Polish settler on the occupied lands of the Coast Salish people. Her plays have been presented across North America, and have been nominated for two Jessie Awards (for Poly Queer Love Ballad). She has performed with Théâtre La Seizième, The Only Animal, Rumble Theatre, and more. www.anaiswest.com

Nelson Wong has been acting in Vancouver for over 20 years and boasts over 100 IMDb credits, including 20 plus appearances in Hallmark movies, and recurring roles on Lucifer (FOX), Riverdale (CW), and The Good Doctor (ABC). On stage Nelson has worked closely with playwright C.E. Gatchalian, originating the characterizations of Jeff and Chang Hyun for his world premieres of Broken (2006 Meta4Theatre), and Falling In Time (2012-Screaming Weenie).  Nelson Wong Actor

Jack is an award winning theatre maker whose work and practice has taken him across Canada, UK, EU and around the world. Work has ranged from devising creation, multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and multi-ligual projects to new works & texts, contemporary approaches to classical theatre. www.jackpatersontheatre.com

* Artists appear courtesy of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the Dance Opera Theatre Agreement and the UBCP/ACTRA ULB Agreement.

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