Creator ProfileBio One of the most acclaimed composers writing in Canada today, Hong Kong-born Alice Ping Yee Ho has written in many musical genres and received numerous national and international awards, including the  2022 Nova Scotia Symphony’s Maria Anna Mozart Award, 2022 Barlow General Commissioning Award, ​2019 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize, 2016

Creator ProfileBio Melissa Hui is a Chinese-born composer from Canada. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver. She received her D.M.A. from Yale University and M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts. Her mentors include Jacob Druckman, Earl Kim, and Mel Powell. Initially inspired by the

Creator ProfileBio Jovanni Sy is a Canadian playwright, actor, and director with Chinese-Filipino ancestry. Sy was born in Manila, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He studied engineering at the University of Toronto before deciding to become an actor, and studied with RH Thomson. For twenty years, he was active

Creator ProfileBio Ian Cusson is a Canadian composer of art song, opera, and orchestral work. Of Métis (Georgian Bay Métis Community) and French Canadian descent, his work explores the Canadian Indigenous experience, including the history of the Métis people, the hybridity of mixed-racial identity, and the intersection of Western and

Creator ProfileBio Yvette Nolan is a playwright, dramaturg, director, and educator. Her plays include BLADE, Job’s Wife, Video, Annie Mae’s Movement, Scattering Jake, Two Old Women, the libretto Hilda Blake and the radio play Owen. She is the editor of Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and

Creator ProfileBio Phoebe Tsang is a Hong-Kong born Chinese, British, and Canadian poet, author, librettist, and playwright. She crafts relevant, contemporary stories that explore issues of home, identity, displacement and belonging, often through the fantastical lens of fairytale, myth, and surrealism. Her debut short story collection is forthcoming from Thistledown

Creator ProfileBio Playwright, actor, and director Anusree Roy was born in Kolkata, India in 1982, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1999 when she was seventeen. Roy graduated from York University in 2006 with a B.A., and from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University

Creator ProfileBio Marcia Johnson is a playwright and actor, born in Jamaica, emigrated to Canada when she was six, and currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Marcia Johnson studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in California. Her first acting gigs were in Young People’s Theatre. She was introduced

Creator ProfileBio Twice winner of the Juno Award for Best Classical Composition, Chan Ka Nin’s works have been performed by ensembles and artists such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Orchestra, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Esprit Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra London Canada, Symphony

Creator ProfileBio A two-time Canadian Screen Award winner and International Film Music Critics Association Award nominee with over 100 composition credits to his name, Darren Fung is a highly influential composer who is well-respected in the TV and Film scoring worlds. His work on Niobe Thompson’s The Great Human Odyssey

Creator ProfileBio Dr Afarin Mansouri is an award-winning composer and musicologist whose works have been performed in Canada, the United States, England, Iran, and South America. She is the recipient of many awards including a Canada 150 Medal for her artistic contribution, and a nomination for the Louise Applebaum Composition

Creator ProfileBio Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is an emcee, playwright, and arts administrator. Her work has been recognized with a Siminovitch Prize nomination, SATAward nomination, the Herman Voaden Playwriting Award, the Enbridge playRites Award, a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and two nominations for the Governor General’s Literary

Creator ProfileBio Rene Orth is a composer that “breaks new ground” (Opera News), writing music described as “…always dramatic, reflective, rarely predictable, and often electronic” (Musical America). Her music focuses on dramatic and lyrical storytelling, and she takes a keen interest in blending electronic soundscapes with acoustic music. She recently

Creator ProfileBio Kanika is a playwright and librettist, currently in-residence at Cahoots Theatre developing her play “our place.” Her work has been featured at Obsidian Theatre Company, Curtis Institute of Music, Tapestry Opera, Rhubarb Festival and Toronto Fringe. Kanika is proud Artistic Producer of Paprika Festival and one of Cahoots

Creator ProfileBio Camyar Chai is an actor, director, writer and producer, born in 1968 in Iran and raised there and in England and the United States. His family moved to North Vancouver British Columbia in 1980 when he was 11 years old. He graduated from the University of British Columbia

Creator ProfileBio Marjorie was born in Toronto to Hong Kong immigrants who arrived in the late 60s. As a theatre and opera artist, she works variously as writer, director and dramaturge as well as in the intersection of these forms and roles. Her work has been seen and performed in

Creator ProfileBio Theater is that collective experience in which participants gather to understand both the richness and injustice of human experience; it is where together, we mourn and celebrate. Chen's work strives to inform and engage, and to bring forth the reinvention of our expectations for our society. ​ ​Always

Creator ProfileBio Norman Yeung is a writer, actor, and visual artist. His play Theory won the Voaden Prize and was nominated for the Carol Bolt Award. Pu-Erh received four Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, including Outstanding New Play, and was a finalist for the Voaden Prize. Other plays and performance

Creator ProfileBio Debi is an interdisciplinary performance artist who loves to weave together sound, text, movement and technology to create contemporary stories. Her performances have been recognized as “unique and magical” (Rondo Classic) and “electric, poignant” (Schmopera). Debi is also the founding artistic director of re:Naissance Opera in Vancouver, BC.

Creator ProfileBio Iman Habibi, D.M.A. (University of Michigan), is an Iranian-Canadian composer and pianist, and a founding member of the piano duo ensemble Piano Pinnacle. Hailed as “a giant in talent” (the Penticton Herald), “whose technical mastery is matched by his musical and cultural literacy” (Hudson-Housatonic Arts), Iman has been

Creator ProfileBio David Yee is a mixed race (half Chinese, half Scottish) playwright and actor, born and raised in Toronto. He is the co-founding Artistic Director of fu-GEN Theatre Company, Canada’s premiere professional Asian Canadian theatre company. A Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated actor and playwright, his work has been produced