Jessica Watkin is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. She has been consulting on a project-basis in Toronto and Canada (in person and online) since 2016 with companies such as Next Stage Theatre Festival, Lemontree productions, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Live Describe, New College Library, […]
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Shelba Deer is an Anishinaabe/Onkwehón:we (Original people-Ojibwe/Mohawk) from Sheguiandah First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario. She is a loving, caring aunt to her nieces and nephews, and is very family and friend oriented. She became active in her Indigenous culture and community, with ceremonies such as fasting, the water offering and the sweatlodge in 2012. Shelba
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Beatriz Arevalo is a Costume Designer with worldwide experience. Currently based in Toronto, she has also lived/worked in the USA, Belgium, France, and her home country Brazil. She loves to travel and explore new cultures. “My non-stop wish to discover the world and innovate has brought me closer to design”. Recent credits include Molly Bloom
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Rebecca Ballarin is a theatre director and producer, currently based in Toronto. In addition to her training at U of T, she has completed directing workshops with a number of prominent Canadian directors including Kim Collier and Jackie Maxwell. Recent directing credits include: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 7 Stories (Hart House Theatre), O (United
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Zoë Ruth Fairless is a freelance theatre artist operating out of Toronto, Ontario. While her main discipline is stage management, she spent much of her time at Queen’s University working as a stagehand with IATSE local 471. She discovered her passion for theatre in her last year of high school after taking a technical theatre
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Alexandra Simpson is an interdisciplinary artist and activist with a background in devised theatre creation, mask (building and performance), dance and play-writing. She is the co-Artistic Leader of Animacy Theatre Collective, a Toronto-based company focused on the creation of original works that speak to social and environmental justice. Alexandra has a BFA in Performance Acting
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Anders Azzopardi is a Toronto-based trombonist, composer and educator. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance from the University of Toronto. Anders theatre credits include: Weather the Weather (Common Boots Theatre, 2016); Terra Incognita (Terra Incognita Collective, 2016); There is No Word for Wilderness (TRCA & Evergreen Brick Works, 2018) and Upstream Downtown (Animacy Theatre Collective, 2018). He is also the
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“I am the son of two tribes. I am the daughter of one birth. I am the spirit of many nations. I am a child of mother earth.” Joe Recinos (kab’ lajuj b’atz’ –twelve monkeys) was born and raised on Turtle Island with Maya roots from Iximulew (Guatemala). A poet and actor whose television credits
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Morgan Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist and theatre creator who aims to use performance for social change. She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Windsor during which time she also studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School and with the SITI company. She has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University
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Lisa Hamalainen is a theatre maker, actor, writer, storyteller and translator from Manitoulin Island. An advocate for free arts in parks and outdoor participatory projects, she creates projects that are female-driven and land-based, and aims to tell stories that inspire empathy, healing, and connection to land and water. Her current project There Is No Word
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Jack Comerford is a performer, clown and musician based in Toronto. Jack is psyched to be back with Animacy Theatre Collective for There is No Word For Wilderness as the super wavy Fish and the very definitely down to earth Young Man. Jack loves running around in parks, and it is a very lucky turn of
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Shaquille Pottinger is an actor who hails from places aplenty, but distinctly caught the acting bug in Barrie, Ontario. His mother would like you to know that he is a Theatre and Drama Studies graduate from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. Now a denizen of what locals lovingly refer to as “The 6ix”,
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