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Jess (she/her) is a communications and engagement specialist based on the traditional stolen and occupied territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She works with creatives and companies across North America and the UK to develop integrated communications and fundraising strategies, business solutions, designs, and visual…
Samantha Walters (she/they) is PTC’s Communication Assistant. They are an emerging interdisciplinary performer, writer, and creator. She mostly works between contemporary performance, directing, and video making. Their most recent works examine ecological relationships and post-human spiritualities, with a heavy favour towards the weird, the dark, and the camp. Collaboration within…
Carmela (she/her/siya) is a Filipino-Canadian artist living and working on the unsurrendered traditional territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation). She is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA in Acting program and has been working in theatre and film in Western Canada since 2010….
Alyssa Formosa (she/they) is a Maltese-Canadian theatre creator living on the unceded and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Her passions for theatre and humanity fuel the work that she does. As a playwright, dramaturg and performer, Alyssa has been involved with the Fringe…
Nicola Harwood (She/They) is an Anglo queer writer, theatre and interdisciplinary artist. Her plays, performances and installation projects have been produced in Canada, Europe and the USA and she has facilitated many art, writing and theatre projects with youth, elders and community members. Writing projects under construction include Blue Monkey,…
Veronique West (She/They) is a non-binary settler of Polish descent, based on the occupied and unsurrendered lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Their work, informed by their lived experience of madness, spans artistic creation and facilitation, as well as mental health peer support and advocacy. Their personal and…
Alexander Steele Zonjic is an emerging playwright and actor. He is also a frightened, anxious millennial with no social media presence and a good poker face. At 8 years old, burglars ransacked his family home in Windsor, Ontario, while he slept, and ever since then he’s been afraid to wake…
Kit McKeown (they/them) is thrilled to be joining the PTC team as Communications Manager! They are a transmasculine nonbinary poet, playwright, performer, and publisher living on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. They are currently pursuing a Master of Publishing degree at Simon Fraser University. They…
Fay Nass (She/He/They) is a Vancouver based theatre director, curator, dramaturg, producer and multi-disciplinary artist. She is Artistic Director of the frank theatre company and the founder/AD of Aphotic Theatre. Their work often examines questions of race, sex, and culture, and the challenges these pose to notions of identity. Being…
Davey Samuel Calderon is a loud and proud theatre maker who can be found either typing furiously on his laptop to dance music, or in the studio on his feet exploring the worlds within, and outside, his imagination. His role as Dramaturg, Public Engagement is a stewardship of the many artists and people who come to PTC, where mutual trust is forged when melding stories into meaningful theatre for our community.
Born, raised and based on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh, C.E. Gatchalian is a queer Filipinx-Canadian author. Formerly Artistic Producer of the frank theatre company, Vancouver’s professional queer theatre company, his plays have been produced locally, nationally and internationally. A three-time…
David Geary is a playwright, screenwriter, fiction writer, dramaturg and educator. He teaches film studies at Capilano University. He’s been the Senior Lecturer in Scriptwriting at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand; the dramaturg/director for Native Earth workshops in Toronto; and has led Block A for PTC for four years….
Joanna (any) is the co-founder, with Yoshie Bancroft, of Universal Limited. Joanna sees dramaturgy as a practice of investigation, research, advice, and above all advocacy, for both a project, and for the artist behind it. Joanna is a frequent mentor, collaborator, and teacher, within PTC and outside of it; and…
Melanie (she/they) is a theatre maker who stubbornly insists on approaching arts administration work with the same joy and creative rigour she deploys in the studio. Her background in embodied, consent-based performance practice grounds her passion for innovation in sectoral change, governance, and management. Her passion for fat liberation and…
PTC is mourning the loss of Kathleen Flaherty, an irreplaceable and beloved Dramaturg and company leader. Both during Kathleen’s eight years of service at PTC, and since her departure, she was instrumental in the organization. Kathleen was an example of how to be an artist and activist in the world.
Heidi (she/her) is a dramaturg, director and performance maker, based on the traditional stolen and occupied territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She joined PTC as Associate Dramaturg in 2005, became Dramaturg in 2008, and Artistic and Executive Director in 2012. She is omnivorous in…