Creator ProfileBio Cecilia Livingston specializes in music for voice. She is composer-in-residence at the Canadian Opera Company (2022-) and was composer-in-residence at Glyndebourne (2019-2022). Her music is driven by melody, mixing styles to create work that is lyrical and unsettling, and her work has been performed at Glyndebourne, Teatro Colón,
Creator ProfileBio Lisa Moore is a writer of short stories and novels from St. John’s. She has won the Commonwealth Fiction Prize, CBC’s Canada Reads, and the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award and received nominations for the Man Booker Prize, Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her third
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 Amanda Hale began her writing career as an immigrant to Montréal in the 1970s. She has written for theatre, and has published novels, poetry, and short fiction collections. Her work has won wide acclaim, with awards such as the Prism International Prize for Creative Non-Fiction. Pomegranate marks her
Creator ProfileBio Kye Marshall is a professional composer, cellist and nature photographer. She combines her love of melody with her facility as a classical and jazz musician and avant-garde improviser to create unique styles of composition. Improvisation is a critical element in her work. As a composer, she improvises to
Creator ProfileBio Sandy Pool is a feminist writer, editor, and professor of creative writing. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections and a chapbook published by Vallum Editions. Her first collection, Exploding Into Night (Guernica Editions) was nominated for Canada’s most prestigious poetry prize: The Governor General’s Award
Creator ProfileBio Taylor Marie Graham (she/her) is an award winning writer, theatre artist, and educator living in Cambridge, Ontario on Treaty 3, Haldimand Tract. In summer 2021, Taylor’s play Post Alice premiered at the Here For Now Festival in Stratford. Currently, she is a PhD Candidate in the School of
Creator ProfileBio Krista Dalby is a passionate and experienced puppeteer and theatre artist and educator. Krista has been working as an arts educator for the past five years and has worked with thousands of children, youth and community members during this time. She is currently the co-artistic director of Small
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 Katya Pine composes original music for for film, television, stage and concert. Trained at the University of Toronto with postgraduate studies in London, England, Katya is a recipient of the prestigious Floyd Chalmers award. Her projects range from Documentaries, Sci-fi, Indie film, and TV to art songs,
Creator ProfileBio Called “a brilliant musical scientist” (CBC), “breathtakingly inventive” (Sydney Times Herald, Australia), and lauded for “creating a stir with listeners for her breathless imagination and ability to capture Gen-X and beyond generation” (Winnipeg Free Press), award-winning composer and video artist composer Nicole Lizée creates new music from an
Creator ProfileBio Theresa Tova is an award-winning actor, writer, and singer who is at home in TV and film as well as the theatre and concert worlds. A Gemini-nominated actor for her recurring role as Marge in the TV series ENG, her latest film and TV roles include: Akilla's Escape,
Creator ProfileBio Juliet Palmer’s music has come to life under a highway off-ramp, in a swimming pool, in the plastic flotsam of a remote beach, and in concert halls across North America, Europe, and Oceania. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Juliet makes her home in Toronto where she is artistic
Creator ProfileBio Julie Salverson is a professor of drama and cultural studies at Queen’s University and has served as Artist-in-Residence at The Royal Military College of Canada. She is a playwright of four plays that have been staged in Toronto, Sudbury and Kingston; a librettist of the opera Shelter, a
Creator ProfileBio Katherine Koller lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and writes for stage (theatre, ballet, opera and dance), screen and radio, and for the page (short and longform fiction). Her full-length plays concern the pressure of science and technology on family relationships, often with the land or some element of nature
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 Jana Skarecky is a Canadian contemporary classical composer of vocal and instrumental music – for solo instruments, chamber groups, solo voice, choir, and orchestra. Jana was born in Prague, in the Czech Republic, on November 11, 1957. She came to Canada with her family in 1968. In 1980
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 Ann-Marie MacDonald is a novelist, playwright, actor, and broadcast host. Her work in each capacity has been honoured with numerous awards, including The Chalmers, The Governor General’s, Gemini, Dora Mavor Moore, and John Drainie awards and The Commonwealth Prize. Her dramatic work includes the plays Goodnight Desdemona (Good
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 Lila Palmer is a librettist, dramaturg and singing actor. She is a commissioned artist-in-residence at American Lyric Theater & divides her time between London & NYC. Upcoming performances of Lila’s work include Scraww (an immersive electronic children’s opera, August 2018, UK), Sunshine Girl (US October 2018), The Reckoning
Creator ProfileBio Composer Abigail Richardson-Schulte was born in Oxford, England, and moved to Canada as a child. Ironically, she was diagnosed incurably deaf at 5. Upon moving to Calgary, however, her hearing was fully intact within months. Her music has been commissioned and performed by major orchestras, presenters, music festivals,
Creator ProfileBio Jessica Murphy Moo is a writer, editor and teacher. She wrote the libretto for An American Dream, an opera that had its world premiere at Seattle Opera in August 2015, and which the company will be remounting in September 2017. In 2016, she was selected to attend Tapestry
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 Sharon studied Intimacy direction with Tonia Sina (Intimacy Directors International) Alicia Rodis (The Deuce) and Clare Warden (Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire de Lune) who are the pioneers of this work at HBO and on Broadway. As the only Canadian, Sharon attended their inaugural 10- day Intensive
Creator ProfileBio Canadian-American composer Luna Pearl Woolf has long used her creative voice to advocate for social and political change. Particularly renowned in the field of opera, her music, praised by The New York Times for its “psychological nuances and emotional depth,” is characterized by its dramatic intention, with a
Creator ProfileBio Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed playwright, librettist, and TV writer. Hannah has been dubbed “an indie sensation” by Toronto Life Magazine; “the wunderkind of Canadian theatre” by CBC Radio; “irritatingly talented” by Eye Weekly; and the “dark angel of Toronto theatre” by The Toronto Star. Hannah has been
Creator ProfileBio An Iceland-born Canadian, Maja Ardal was schooled in Scotland. She is a playwright, performer, theatre instructor, the former artistic director of Young People's Theatre, and a core member of Contrary Company. She wrote Midnight Sun, produced by Tarragon Theatre and the National Arts Centre and published by Playwrights
Creator ProfileBio Elisabeth Mehl Greene is a composer/writer working in the Washington DC area, with a doctorate from the University of Maryland. Her opera Hajar won a commission by the University of Maryland. Her scenes written at Tapestry Opera’s Composer-Librettist Laboratory receive performances around the US and Canada. DC area
Creator ProfileBio Betty Jane Wylie is a distinguished non-fiction author and playwright, whose work also includes poetry and librettos. With over thirty-five books and three dozen plays to her credit – published by a wide range of presses – she has written bestsellers, memoirs, self-help studies, 'belles lettres' accounts of
Creator ProfileBio Alexis is an anglophone theatre artist, opera and musical librettist, translator, dramaturg, and theatre curator, working on both sides of Montréal’s linguistic divide. Framed by her background in playwriting and shaped by her close proximity to Québécois dramaturgy, Alexis’ process-based, collaborative practice is grounded in extensive documentary research
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 Linda Catlin Smith grew up in New York and lives in Toronto. She studied music in NY and at the University of Victoria (Canada). Her music has been performed and/or recorded by: BBC Scottish Orchestra, Exaudi, Tafelmusik, Other Minds Festival, California Ear Unit, Kitchener-Waterloo, Victoria and Vancouver Symphonies,
Creator ProfileBio Anna Chatterton is a playwright, librettist and performer. She has been a Playwright-in-Residence at Tarragon Theatre since 2011 and is the OAC 2015-2016 Playwright-in-Residence at Nightwood Theatre. Anna was recently invited to be a writer in residence at the National Theatre School of Canada. Anna recently performed her
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 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 Colleen Murphy is a playwright, librettist and filmmaker. She was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, and raised in Northern Ontario. Her play Pig Girl won the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama and the 2014 Carol Bolt Award. The December Man/L'homme de décembre won the 2007 Governor General's
Creator ProfileBio Julie Tepperman is a Dora-nominated playwright, actor, and educator, as well as co-artistic director (with Aaron Willis) of Convergence Theatre, thrice listed by NOW Magazine as the “Best Site-Specific Theatre Company in Toronto.” Julie’s created Bandits in the Valley with composer Benton Roark in 2017 and was a
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 Leanna Brodie is an actor, playwright, and translator whose passions include lifting up the stories and voices of women, exploring and exploding the ever-widening rural-urban divide, as well as championing a new generation of French-Canadian playwrights by transmitting their extraordinary theatrical visions into the English language. Creator Website
Creator ProfileBio Jill Battson is an internationally published poet and poetry activist, and the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cobourg, Ontario. She was responsible for creating and running the successful poetry reading series The Poets' Refuge and has initiated and produced many exciting poetry events. Jill is widely published across North
Creator ProfileBio Liza is a Dora Award-winning Ontario based multi-disciplinary theatre artist who works as a director, actor, writer, librettist, educator and coach. She first trained as a dancer in Montreal and Toronto and then as an actor in New York City, where she spent the first 8 years of
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