Perspectives émergentes: Kat MacLean
It was spring on the Manitoba prairies. Kat MacLean (they/she) was a young Toronto actor on tour with a play for young audiences.
Perspectives émergentes: Mary-Lee Picknell
Actress and playwright Mary-Lee Picknell is more than happy to conduct our interview in Franglais, that quintessentially Canadian mash-up of our two official languages. Born, raised, and based in Québec City, Picknell is fluently bilingual, and more. “I’ve always been a language enthusiast,” she explains. “When I was a teenager I used to play Scrabble […]
Emerging Perspectives: Howard Dai
March 2, 2026 “Instead of just grinding, I was more of an explorer. I’d go around and see every corner of the map.” This is theatre maker Howard Dai, answering a question about playing video games as a kid. But it’s hard not to see a connection to the way he spends his time these […]
Perspectives émergentes : Mayumi Ide-Bergeron
Lately, Mayumi Ide-Bergeron has been thinking a lot about Tinkerbell. She’s assisting props designer Karine Cusson on a new production of Peter Pan the Musical, and they’ve been assigned “La Fée Clochette,” as the iconic sprite is known in French. She tells me she has rewatched all the Tinkerbell made-for-TV movies – who knew there […]
Perspectives émergentes : Hina Nishioka
Hina Nishioka is a long way from the Pacific Ocean. As an aspiring ballet dancer in Japan; a student the University of Victoria where she turned to theatre after a knee injury; as staff on a cruise ship, seeing moving stage lights for the first time; or, these days, living and working in Vancouver, Nishioka […]