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.

Claude Goyette has no problem going from the world of Verdi to that of Michel Tremblay. He designed more than 150 sets for theatre, opera, dance and television, while applying his artistic trade with Cirque du Soleil and with a number of museums for which he created indoor and outdoor installations. 

Claude Goyette is a firm believer in the importance of supporting up-and-coming artists, and he dedicated part of his career to teaching. He taught at l’École supérieure de théâtre de l’Université du Québec in Montréal, at Collège Lionel-Groulx (in the theatre option) as well as at several other renowned theatre schools.

During a career of over thirty years, Alison has designed for theatre, television, and special events all over Canada. 

Alison’s work has ranged from television and film design through projects in international exhibitions and museums, to set and costume design for theatre. Alison’s designs have been seen on the stages of the Arts Club Theatre, Pacific Opera and The Belfry Theater, Victoria, and Magnus Theatre, Thunder Bay, among others. She makes her home in Vancouver, where she maintains an active career in design and teaching.

Born in Seattle, raised in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, and a graduate of the University of Victoria Theatre Program, Janet Munsil studied design and directing. 

As a playwright, she is drawn to unusual but forgotten incidents and people from the past. Dramatic work includes The Ugly Duchess (about the ugliest woman in history); Emphysema: a love story (the meeting of silent film star Louise Brooks and theatre critic Kenneth Tynan); Be Still (inspired by the work of Victorian photographer Hannah Maynard); Influence (Keats meets the Parthenon Statues); Circus Fire (a play for physical theatre inspired by tragic 1944 event); and I Have Seen Beautiful Jim Key, a play for young audiences about a horse that could read.