Denise is a choreographer/theatre artist working in Calgary and is the Associate Artist and a permanent member of the One Yellow Rabbit Theatre Ensemble where several of her plays have been produced.

Clarke is the recipient of numerous awards including local theatre awards in Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto. Along with the OYR Ensemble she was awarded the Alberta Lieutenant Governor General Distinguished Artist Award and The Calgary Mayor’s Distinguished Artist Award.

She was appointed as a Member to the Order of Canada and also recognized by the University of Calgary with an Honorary Doctorate in 2013. 

One of Canada’s top designers, Michael Eagan was born in 1940 in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. He studied Liberal Arts at the University of New Brunswick, where he began designing for the UNB Drama Society without any previous experience, and was inspired to pursue a career in the theatre.

Michael Eagan designed sets and costumes for many of the major English and French theatres, dance and opera companies in Canada, including the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, Theatre Calgary, Theatre Lac-Brome, and Theatre Plus.

Michael Eagan died on August 5, 2022 at the age of 82. 

Mary Cynthia Walsh is a Canadian actress, comedian, and writer. She is known for her work on CODCO and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. 

She has won 18 Gemini Awards. She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for the film Happy Place.

Walsh received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 2012.

Marie-Hélène Falcon is a former artistic director for theatre and dance in Quebec.

She was born in Montreal and studied philosophy and theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She was artistic director for the Festival du théâtre étudiant du Québec and co-director for the Association québécoise du jeune théâtre. Falcon was co-founder of the Festival de théâtre des Amériques which later evolved into the Festival TransAmériques and served as its director and artistic director until her departure in June 2014. She also founded Théâtres du monde in 1996 and Nouvelles Scènes in 1997.

Jerry Wasserman is Professor of English and Theatre, specializing in modern drama and theatre history with particular interests in Canadian theatre and popular entertainments. His books include Modern Canadian Plays (2 vols.), now in its 5th edition, Twenty Years at Play: A New Play Centre Anthology, Theatre and Autobiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice, co-edited with Sherrill Grace, and Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France. He also wrote and hosted Modern Canadian Theatre, a 12-hour telecourse for BC’s Knowledge Network. Wasserman has published widely on modern drama, modern fiction, and blues literature. He reviewed theatre for CBC radio for 17 years and is currently theatre critic for The Province newspaper in Vancouver. He has sat on the board of Playwrights Theatre Centre and the Canadian Theatre Critics Association, and has more than 200 professional acting credits for stage and screen. 

Member of the First Siminovitch Jury for Design in 2003. Convenor of “Theatre by Design” (Toronto, 2003). Author of Scenography in Canada: Selected Designers (2004), co-curator of the Canadian delegation to Prague Quadrennial 2007, and co-editor of Imprints of Process (2008), editor of Design and Scenography (2009) guest editor of the special issue: “Costumes and Costuming” of Canadian Theatre Review 152 (2013). Her research has appeared in Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods (2020), Performing Architectures: Projects, Practices, Pedagogies (2018) and in journals Theatre and Performance Design, Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre Research in Canada, Australasian Studies, Theatre Journal, Studies in Costume and Performance and Scene. She is Professor Emerita of Drama in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Astrid Janson est une scénographe et costumière canadienne. Plus connue pour son travail au théâtre, elle a également conçu des décors pour la télévision, l'opéra, la danse, le cinéma et des expositions. Elle est lauréate de plusieurs Dora Mavor Moore Awards, ainsi que du premier Toronto Drama Bench Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Canadian Theatre (aujourd'hui The Herbert Whittaker/CTCA Award).

Martha Henry was considered one of Canada’s greatest actors. She had a long association with the Stratford Festival and with regional theatres across the country. She also won five Genie Awards and four Gemini Awards for her work in film and television. A Companion of the Order of Canada, she received the Toronto Drama Bench Award for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Theatre, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Order of Ontario, and honorary degrees from numerous Canadian universities. 

Keith Turnbull is a director, dramaturge, and producer committed to contemporary and new work in theatre and opera. He was artistic director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre; of Second Stage, Neptune Theatre; and founding artistic director of the NDWT Co., a First Nations theatre company from which emerged many of Canada’s most noted native performers and writers. He is the past artistic director/executive producer of Banff Theatre Arts. He has taught extensively throughout Canada. He has directed more than ninety plays in theatres across Canada and opera/music theatre in Canada, Wales, Sweden, and the US. 

Diana Leblanc is a Canadian television and film actress, best known to US audiences for her portrayal of Frannie Halcyon in the TV miniseries More Tales of the City (1998) and its follow-up Further Tales of the City (2001). These miniseries were sequels to Tales of the City (1994), which starred Nina Foch in the role of Frannie.

In 2015, Leblanc received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada’s highest honour in the performing arts, for her work in theatre. She has also received the Gascon-Thomas Award from the National Theatre School of Canada and a Gemini Award. 

Mary Kerr has a distinguished career in Canadian and international theatre, dance, opera, feature film and television, as well as exhibition and special events design. As a production designer she has created for such companies as The Canadian Opera Company, The Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The New Zealand Opera, the Danny Grossman Dance Company, The National Ballet of Canada, The Shaw and The Stratford Festivals, and most of this country’s regional theatres. She was Production Designer for the 1994 Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games in Victoria.

Professional acknowledgements include seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards (14 nominations), three Sterling Awards, A Houston Film Award, and 5 Gemini and Gemineaux nominations. Mary has represented Canada at such juried international design competitions as the Prague Quadrennial (1983, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2019), and been a finalist in World Stage 2005 (Toronto), and 2009 (Seoul, Korea). Mary is one of seven designers featured in Natalie Rewa’s Scenography in Canada (U of T Press, 2004).