sound designer

Deanna is a Korean-Canadian composer and sound designer based in Toronto/T’karonto. She writes original music for film, TV, dance and multimedia. Through her company, SPLIT BRAIN SOUND, she designs soundscapes and audio systems for live theatre, concerts and installations. She collaborates with artists of all backgrounds and disciplines, premieres new works and revisits classics, and is equally at home in intimate black box studios and 1000-seat auditoriums.

creator/performer

Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia to chinese-canadian parents. After finishing an arts degree at Simon Fraser University and working freelance, Tony decided to move to Montreal, Quebec in 1994 to pursue a career as a modern dancer and choreographer. He has performed all over the world for various companies in Quebec, most notably La Compagnie Marie Chouinard, La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, Carbon 14. Tony has created a number of works that have been presented locally and nationally.

core member

Lisa is currently the Stage Manager for Mirvish Productions’ Come From Away in Toronto. Selected Credits include: Strictly Ballroom, The Heart Of Robin Hood, Les Misérables, War Horse, Ghost Stories, The Sound Of Music and Dirty Dancing (Mirvish Productions), Butcher (Why Not Theatre/ Mirvish Productions), It Comes In Waves (PANAMANIA/ bluemouth Inc/ Necessary Angel), Party Game (bluemouth inc/Necessary Angel), Dance Marathon (bluemouth inc) Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan In Wonderland (Ross Petty Productions), Grey Gardens (Musical Stage Company).

creator/performer

Erum is a performer, film and theatre maker, youth facilitator, and film programmer. She is the current recipient of the Urjo Kareda Research grant from Tarragon Theatre and was the recipient of the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Queer Emerging Artist Award. Erum was a selected artist for the inaugural edition of the Loughborough Lake Writer's Retreat with Crow’s Theatre and Mongrel Media to further develop her TV series, Purple Sky, with Tijiki Morris.

core member

Mariel is a producer, performer and artistic director. She is the co-founder of Sundown Theatre in rural Kincardine Ontario, and splits her time between the company’s home base and Toronto. Under her direction, she has produced three summer seasons of work, including The Tale of a Town: Kincardine (in collaboration with FiXT POINT), Tuesdays & Sundays (dir. Clare Preuss), The Ghost Ship (dir. Matthew Walker) The Selkie of Kincardine (dir. Matthew Walker) and an annual Young Company training program for local youth. Mariel is a graduate of the devised theatre program at York University

video designer

Jeremy works as a filmmaker, photographer, and projection & sound designer for performance. He is an artistic associate at adelheid and has collaborated on sound and/or projection design with bluemouth inc., DA Hoskins, Peggy Baker, James Kudelka, Kate Hilliard, Peter Chin, Sashar Zarif, Roshanek Jaberi, Ian Kamau and Laurence Lemieux. Film credits include short films: a settling haze, elsewhere, present absence/absent presence (co-created with Heidi Strauss), From Gentle Ashes, and Floating Construct (co-created with Peter Chin), Espaço featuring Pulga Muchochoma (in collaboration with Art Spin).

founding member

Stephen has a BFA in modern dance from Rutgers University and an MFA in interdisciplinary art from Simon Fraser University. From 1990 to 1997, he was co-Artistic Director of Radix Theatre in Vancouver, a site-specific interdisciplinary performance collective. His collaborations include experimental films which have been screened at The Vancouver International Film Festival, The American Dance Festival, and the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto.

creator/performer

Carol started her career with Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers. She has worked with various Canadian choreographers and has participated in the touring production of Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault’s Joe. She has been a dance performer for the Compagnie Marie Chouinard since 1995. She has had the opportunity to participate in various projects with creators and artists such as Bill Coleman, Charmaine Leblanc, Isabelle Hayeur, Anne Troake. Carol received the award for the female Dancer of the year from Tanz magazine, and in 2014, Carol was awarded with the honour of being Dance Performer of the Year in Montreal, Canada.

founding member

Lucy is a writer, dancer and theatre artist creating experimental performance for over ten years. She is a founding member of the performance collective bluemouth inc. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, she has also worked in Vancouver as co-Artistic Director of Radix Theatre, in Toronto, Montreal and London. She has taught movement for actors at Humber College, teaches movement improvisation in the bluemouth workshops and is also a certified Pilates instructor. She holds a degree in French, Dance and Mathematics from Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Playwriting from York University.

co-composer & sound operator

Michael is a sound designer and theatre artist living in Tkaronto. They are a graduate of the Production, Design, and Technical Arts program at the National Theatre School of Canada, and have worked professionally as a sound designer since 2013. Their recent projects include assisting on Little Women at the Stratford Festival, sound designing Holdin’ On To What’s Golden with Globe Theatre, and producing and sound designing the narrative podcast The Rest is Electric. They have also worked in live sound mixing for over a decade, with experience working in large concert venues and outdoor festivals Their interests are wide ranging, but of particular interest to them are queer stories as well as stories from other marginalized and under-served communities.

costume designer

Ming is a Toronto costume designer, stylist, and wardrobe technician working in the industry for over 15 years. She has worked on a variety of projects ranging from dance, theatre, and film & television. She has designed across the city and beyond for companies such as the Canadian Opera Company, Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Citadel Theatre, Canadian Stage, Crow’s Theatre, Soulpepper, and Obsidian Theatre. She is a 2 time Dora Mavor Moore winner as well as the 2021 recipient of the Virginia & Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design.

lighting and set designer

Echo is an award-winning Chinese immigrant, queer Tkaronto-based scenographer working in live performance. She has designed for Tarragon Theatre, Studio 180, Buddies in the Bad Times, Theatre Passe Muraille, Thousand Island Playhouse, Frog in Hand, The Theatre Centre, SummerWorks Festival, The Next Stage Festival, etc. Her design works have also been presented in Japan and China. Echo was one of Why Not Theatre's ThisGen Fellowship cohorts in 2020.