Creator ProfileBio Camille Rogers has been recognized for their work as Co-Artistic Director of Toronto’s queer opera collective OperaQ, and has been invited to speak at related events hosted by Against the Grain Theatre, Amplified Opera, the University of Toronto, the Saskatoon Symphony, and VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto. With

Creator ProfileBio Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian Poets

Creator ProfileBio As an award-winning writer, Dave Deveau investigates queer themes that speak to a broad audience. His work has been produced across North America and in Europe. He is the Playwright in Residence for Vancouver’s Zee Zee Theatre, who produced his plays Nelly Boy, Tiny Replicas, the critically-acclaimed My

Creator ProfileBio Jeffrey Ryan was almost an accountant. Three months into his first semester at Wilfrid Laurier University, he begged to transfer into the Music Faculty to become a composer. Which, after growing up training his ear with Petula Clark, The Partridge Family, and Captain and Tennille, playing saxophone and

Creator ProfileBio Having started his career as a playwright, Michael MacLennan's first play Beat The Sunset garnered Vancouver's Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding new play, and the Theatrum National Playwriting Award. Grace won the Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition. His next two plays The Shooting Stage and Last Romantics both

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 Darren J — born in 1984 and from Montréal — does not write autobiographical texts using the third person. I studied music composition and theory at McGill University, completing my bachelor’s in 2011 and master’s in 2014 under the supervision of Chris Paul Harman and Denys Bouliane. During

Creator ProfileBio Royce Vavrek is a Canada-born, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker), a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post), “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times), and “one of the most celebrated and sought after

Creator ProfileBio Rodney Sharman teaches composition at the VSO School of Music. He has been Composer-in-Residence of Early Music Vancouver’s “New Music for Old Instruments," the Victoria Symphony, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Composer-Host of the Calgary Philharmonic’s New Music Festival, "Hear and Now." In addition

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 Playwright, actor, and director Morris Panych is a man for all seasons in Canadian theatre. He has directed over ninety productions across Canada, and written thirty plays that have been produced throughout Canada, Britain, the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand in a dozen languages. Panych