Mieko Ouchi est une actrice, auteure et metteure en scène qui œuvre aussi bien au théâtre qu’au cinéma et à la télévision. Ses pièces The Red Priest (Eight Ways To Say Goodbye), The Blue Light, The Dada Play, Nisei Blue et I Am For You ont été finalistes pour la série 4 Play du Old Vic de Londres, de même que pour le Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général pour la dramaturgie, le prix Gwen Pharis Ringwood et le prix du livre de la Ville d’Edmonton, et elle a remporté le prix Carol Bolt. Ses films documentaires, narratifs et expérimentaux ont été présentés dans plus de 30 festivals et diffusés sur la scène internationale. Cofondatrice et directrice artistique du Concrete Theatre, elle œuvre actuellement à une pièce de théâtre jeunesse, Consent, et à trois pièces pour publics adultes : Makepeace; Mariam, avec la réfugiée et dramaturge syrienne Amena Shehab; et Burning Mom.

Sue LePage is a Canadian set designer and costume designer based in Toronto. She has designed for over 100 theatre productions including ballet and opera. 

After graduating university, LePage’s first job in the field was as a junior production assistant for a short time at the Stratford Festival. Soon after, she went to Scotland to attend a program affiliated with the Edinburgh Festival.

Her designs have since appeared in many other notable theatres and theatre festivals in Canada: Shaw Festival: Tarragon Theatre, Grand Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canadian Stage, National Arts Centre, Soulpepper, Young People’s Theatre, Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, Factory Theatre.

Kevin Kerr is a Canadian playwright, actor, director and founding member of Electric Company Theatre. From 2007 to 2010, he was Lee Playwright in Residence at University of Alberta. 

He was born in Vancouver and grew up in Kamloops, British Columbia. He studied theatre at the University of British Columbia, and at Studio 58, Langara College.

He has co-authored several plays with the Electric Company Theatre based in Vancouver, British Columbia including The Wake, The Score, Dora Flor and Her Two Husbands, Flop, The Fall, and Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla. His 2001 play Unity (1918) explores the Influenza epidemic of 1918 and won the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Drama.

Avec plus de 150 collaborations à son actif, Mérédith Caron est assurément l’un des chefs de file dans le domaine de la création de costumes. Depuis le début de sa carrière à la fin des années soixante-dix, elle crée principalement pour le théâtre, le cinéma et l’opéra. Elle travaille avec des metteurs en scène émérites dont Pierre Bernard, Serge Denoncourt, Robert Lepage, Martine Beaulne, Denise Guilbault, René Richard Cyr, André Brassard et Daniele Finzi Pasca, de même qu’avec Richard Monette au prestigieux Stratford Festival. Elle a aussi conçu les costumes de spectacles très remarqués dont Nomade et Rain pour le Cirque Éloize et le spectacle Criss Angel-Believe du Cirque du Soleil, à Las Vegas. L’excellence de son travail lui a valu d’être lauréate de nombreux prix importants tels qu’un Gémeaux, cinq Gascon-Roux et deux Masques. Mérédith Caron enseigne l’histoire de l’art et la conception de costumes à l’École nationale de théâtre du Canada depuis une quinzaine d’années et plus récemment à l’université Concordia. 

Marie Clements is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter. Marie was founding artistic director of urban ink productions, and is currently co-artistic director of red diva projects, and director of her new film company Working Pajama Lab Entertainment. Clements lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television. 

Director, playwright and producer Scott Burke has a BA from the Dalhousie University Professional Actor Training Program (1981-84) and an MFA in Theatre Direction from Penn State University (1985-88). 

From 2003 to 2005 he was the Artistic Director of Theatre New Brunswick, where he directed Oh, Coward!, Mary’s Wedding, Chairmaker the Musical, Dear Santa and The Hobbit.

A graduate of UBC and the University of Ottawa, Craig has worked in professional theatre for over 25 years as a director, playwright, actor and designer. From 2001 to 2016, Craig was the Artistic and Managing Director of Théâtre la Seizième in Vancouver. Under his leadership, the company’s scope and notoriety increased greatly, as both producing and presenting programming expanded significantly to reach record amounts of audience members.

Craig is the first director to be awarded Jessie Richardson Awards for his directing work in the Large Theatre, Small Theatre and Theatre for Young Audiences categories. Along with these accolades, Craig received the John Moffat and Larry Lillo Award as well as le prix Marcus-Banque Nationale for his exceptional contribution to the theatrical communities in French-Canada.

From 2006-2010, Craig was the president of l’Association de Théâtres francophones du Canada. In 2016, Craig joined the Canada Council of the Arts in Ottawa, where he currently is an Officer in the Engage and Sustain Program working with theatre companies from across the country. 

Professor Kerwin studied theatre design at the Sadlers Wells School under Motley in London, England. She studied drawing and painting at the New Brooklyn School, the Arts Students’ League, and the New York Academy of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, all in New York City. She assisted/apprenticed at various theatres in England and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Her designs for sets and costumes have been seen across the country, including the National Arts Centre, the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, the Citadel, Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre, Mirvish Productions, Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage Company, Pacific Opera, Blyth Festival and others across Canada and in the U.S. She has been nominated nine times for Toronto’s Dora Awards and has been the recipient of two Doras for outstanding design. She has also been nominated for the prestigious Siminovitch Award and been the recipient of a Harold Award (Toronto), Tom Patterson Award (Stratford), and four Canada Council Awards. She is a member of Associated Designers of Canada. Shawn has also designed over 250 windows for Tiffany & Co.’s flagship store in Toronto. 

Originally from Newfoundland, Leigh Ann has designed lights for theatre and dance across Canada. Recently she designed Dear Rita (Charlottetown Festival), Everybody Just C@lm The F#ck Down, Between Breaths (Artistic Fraud) The Neverending Story (Stratford, NAC), The Silver Arrow (Citadel Theatre), The Third Colour (Prairie Theatre Exchange), As You Like It, The Diary of Anne Frank (Stratford) Secret Life of a Mother (Theatre Centre, Crows Theatre), and The God That Comes, What a Young Wife Ought to Know (2b). She is currently part of the creative team developing new a dance show, Everywhere the Edges, choreographed by Rebecca Lazier, performed in the net sculptures of Janet Echelman. Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Telltale Harbour at Charlottetown Festival, and the world premiere of Hamlet 911 at Stratford.

Leigh Ann is a teacher and coach at National Theatre School of Canada. 

Lighting designer, raised in Ottawa, who has worked in Canada, the United States and Europe, and designed for theatre, opera and dance. 

Jock Munro began his work in theatre as a stagehand at the National Arts Centre, assisting lighting crews. In 1978, the Artistic Director, John Wood, offered him a position as lighting designer.

His 35-year career includes productions with the Stratford Festival for thirteen seasons (The Cherry Orchard, Henry V, Sharon Pollock’s One Tiger to a Hill, The Three Sisters, Treasure Island, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Bacchae); ten productions at Canadian Stage (including the radiant Into The Woods); Grand Theatre, London; Theatre New Brunswick; Theatre Calgary; Citadel Theatre; Neptune Theatre; Centaur Theatre (including a beautiful My Fair Lady and magnificent Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe); and Great Canadian Theatre Company.