People
Core Team

Chelsea Haberlin
Artistic Director
Chelsea has lived most of her life on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people, specifically the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and is honoured to call this gorgeous place her home. She is a white woman of mixed Italian-Scottish-English-Swiss heritage. She is a mom and is married to theatre artist Sebastien Archibald.
Chelsea has been creating theatre in some form since she was a very little girl making plays in her basement. She is the Artistic Director of Neworld Theatre and Associate Artist with ITSAZOO Productions, a company she co-founded in 2006. As a director she has worked with: ITSAZOO Productions, Neworld Theatre, Arts Club Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, Theatre SKAM, Pacific Theatre, Delinquent Theatre, Studio 58, and many more. Chelsea is forever searching for new ways to surprise and engage an audience and is particularly passionate about meaningful collaboration, immersive environments, community engagement, and reconciliation.
Chelsea has an MFA in directing from UBC and a BFA from UVic and is currently an adjunct professor at UBC. She is the recipient of the Sydney J Risk award in directing, the Ray Michal award for an outstanding body of work by an emerging director and a two-time winner, and a five-time Jessie Richardson Award nominee for Outstanding Direction. She is a member of the advisory committee for Balancing Act, sits on the boards of the Vancouver Creative Space Society, Creekview Housing Coop (where she is grateful to live!), and Aenigma Theatre.

Alen Dominguez
Managing Director
Alen Dominguez (He/Him) is a Mexican-Canadian theatre artist who trained as an actor at the University of British Columbia. He has since expanded his work into producing and arts management for several award-winning companies across Metro Vancouver. He was most recently the General Manager for Tara Cheyenne Performance and Executive Producer at Royal City Musical Theatre. He’s also collaborated with Electric Company, City Opera Vancouver, Bard on the Beach, Ruby Slippers, Arts Club, Citadel, Chemainus and Western Gold. Alen is a proud co-founding member of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition (CALTAC).

Raes Calvert
Producer
Raes Calvert (He/Him) is a Métis theatre artist who lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territory. As a performer, he has toured Nationally and Internationally with such companies as Axis Theatre, GreenThumb Theatre, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Neworld Theatre, and The Presentation House Theatre. After graduating Studio 58 at Langara College in 2010, he Co-founded Hardline Productions and has served as an Artistic Director for the company since then. His love for physical theatre and theatrical movement has influenced and been a part of the 20+ pieces that Hardline has produced over the last 10 years. Hardline shows have been nominated for 16 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards and received 3. Raes is a five-time Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominee and two-time recipient. He is also a recipient of the Reveal Indigenous Arts Award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation. His original work Redpatch was published by Talon Books in 2019. Raes is ever so excited to be working with Neworld Theatre (the company that gave him his first professional theatre contract), and continue his journey as a Producer and Collaborator in the community.

Angelica Schwartz
Community Engagement Manager
Angelica Schwartz (They/Them) is a director and creator from Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg, MB) currently residing on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in Vancouver, BC. With a Jessie Award already under their belt, Schwartz is a visionary dedicated to community building, redefining leadership models, and embracing hope in the face of uncertainty. Beyond their numerous company credits including work with The National Arts Centre, Buddies in Bad Times, Electric Company Theatre, Rumble Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, Schwartz also serves as the community engagement manager for Neworld Theatre and Tara Cheyenne Performance. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Directing and Studio 58’s Technical Production programs, Schwartz’s work is inspired by Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown and interrogating normative narratives whilst finding humour and play in everything they do. To learn more about Schwartz’s work, visit angelicaschwartz.com.

Leslie Dos Remedios
Community Outreach Coordinator
Leslie Dos Remedios (She/They)
Originally from the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississauga of the Credit (aka Toronto), she is a graduate of York University (2008) and Studio 58 (2012). Most recently, Leslie directed “Before They Cut Down Our Tree” (J to K Productions) at the 2023 Vancouver Fringe Festival. They also completed a directing apprenticeship with Bard On The Beach assistant directing with Daryl Cloran on “As You Like It”. Alongside their work at Neworld, Leslie is currently working with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (vAct) as their guest dramaturg and is looking forward to directing the remount of “For Now” with Green Thumb Theatre in the new year.

Brianna Bernard
Resident Technician
Brianna Bernard is a young Vancouver artist interested in art and theatre’s creative and practical departments. With a background in digital media, photography and performance, Brianna has dabbled in roles such as stage designer, technical director, stage manager and scenic photographer. She holds a BFA in Theatre Production & Design from Simon Fraser University. Originally born and raised in Jamaica, Brianna is thankful to now work, create and reside on the stolen lands of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
Artistic Associates

Ana Lorena Pérez Rolando
Artistic Associate
Ana Lorena Pérez Rolando was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and moved to Vancouver, Canada in 2014. Back in Ecuador, she obtained degrees in Clinical Psychology and Family Therapy and focused her professional experience in the field of Educational Counselling. As soon as she came to Canada with her family, Ana Lorena started volunteering in different programs that supported Spanish speaking families with young kids. The experiences of “reinventing herself” because of migration, plus the motherhood, awoke a strong playful spirit that took her to a new path. In 2016, together with a partner, she started a children’s entertainment initiative called “Cacatúa” focused on puppetry and Latin American Culture promotion. Since 2019, she works in a non-profit organization facilitating different family programs in both English and Spanish.

Marcus Youssef
Artistic Associate (Neworld AD from 2005-2019)

Niall McNeil
Artistic Associate

Christine Quintana
Artistic Associate
Christine Quintana (She/Her)
Born in Los Angeles, Christine is now a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people (Vancouver, BC). She is an actor, playwright, and co-Artistic Producer of Delinquent Theatre. Christine is the winner of the prestigious Siminovitch Protégé prize, a Dora Mavor Moore Award, Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, Tom Hendry Award, and Sydney Risk Award, and a Governor General’s Award Nominee. Her works include Selfie, Clean (with translator and adaptor Paula Zelaya Cervantes); Someone Like You; Never The Last (created with violinist Molly MacKinnon), and El Terremoto, an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters set in Vancouver, BC. Christine is a proud co-founding member of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition. She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of British Columbia. Christinequintana.ca

Yvonne Yip
Artistic Associate
Current Collaborators

Andie Lloyd
Collaborator
Andie Lloyd is a queer & disabled interdisciplinary artist and community advocate. They work in a multitude of capacities, including, but not limited to: lighting and projection design, interaction development, digital platform consultation, production management and interdisciplinary collaboration. Andie studied Theatre Production at Studio 58, and is currently a Co-Digital Technologist at Progress Lab 1422. Notable recent projects include: LAKBAY (Joshua Ongcol, Rumble Theatre), and whip (Montréal, arts interculturels, FakeKnot). In 2022, they will be working on the world premiere of Clean/Espejos (Neworld Theatre), and presenting a full-length hybrid production of Selfie, both written by Christine Quintana.GFHG SDGM. Land Back.

Angie Rico
Critical Futures Participant
Angie Rico (she/her) is a Mexican-born cultural worker, currently living and working in so-called Vancouver. She is a graduate from Emily Carr University and past participant of Neworld Theatre’s Critical Futures training program. She’s the recipient of the 2023 Max Wyman Mentee Award in Critical Writing. Her writing covers film, visual arts, and theatre. https://muckrack.com/rico-angie

Anton Lipovetsky
Ensemble Facilitator

Cheyenne Rouleau
Fat Joke

Evelyn Chew
Ensemble Facilitator

Hope Lauterbach
Unbound Reading Series Founder/Creative Director
Coming soon.

Jiv Parasram
Fat Joke/Critical Futures Mentor

Joy Russell
Commissioned Artist
Born in Belize, Joy Russell is a writer and poet living in North Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. Her writing has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council and has appeared in numerous publications, literary journals and anthologies in North America, the UK and Caribbean, including Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, The Caribbean Writer, The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry, Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry, and The Best Canadian Poetry in English, (2007, 2017). Her PodPlay, Days of Old (Neworld Theatre/PTC), highlighted Strathcona’s Black community and her work as a researcher and assistant producer for the television documentaries in London, UK, includes Rebel Music: The Bob Marley Story, Pump Up the Volume and BAFTA-nominated, The Hip Hop Years. Currently an MA student in the Department of Geography at SFU, her thesis focuses on the segregation policies at Crystal Pool, a former public swimming pool in the West End, and “Brown Skin Beach” in Kitsilano, a potential alternative recreational site. Research-based, her writing and work explores the intersection of meta and micro narratives, colonization, racialization, resistance, and creative life-making and place-making in local and broader histories.

Keely O’Brien
Division Infinity Saves The World!

Matt Clarke
Division Infinity Saves The World!

Nathan Kay
Ensemble Artistic Coordinator

Quelemia Sparrow
Tumulx

Randi Edmundson
Division Infinity Saves The World!
Randi is a theatre maker, puppeteer, and artistic producer of Little Onion Puppet Co and Project
X Theatre. As a puppeteer, Randi has worked with Chemainus Theatre Festival, Western
Canada Theatre, Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppet, Presentation House Theatre, and
more. Her puppet designs and builds have travelled across Canada and her original puppet
plays have been presented by Project X Theatre, the Vancouver International Puppet Festival,
Puppets for Peace, and Calgary's Festival of Animated Objects. In addition to her more
conventional puppet work, Randi has worked on numerous lantern performance projects,
including Urban Ink's Sedna, performed at Caravan Farm Theatre, and the Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry’s Iniskim. Randi is currently an MFA Candidate in Directing at the University of Calgary.

Reham Cojuangco
Critical Futures Participant
Coming soon.

Shanae Sodhi
Critical Futures Facilitator
Shanae is a graduate of Studio 58 where he was one of the establishing members and Head Organizer of the school’s Student Diversity Committee. A student-led group working to strengthen marginalized groups within the theatre community by empowering students with the tools and knowledge to engage in conversations of inclusivity. He works as a staff member of Rumble Theatre. Recent producing credits: Social Justice Forum (New Harlem Productions), Catalina La O Presenta: Now With Me (Off The Corner Productions), Democracy Now (Theatre Conspiracy) and Mx (winner of the 2019 Fringe New Play Prize and Cultchivating the Fringe Award).

Shizuka Kai
Division Infinity Saves The World!

Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li
Critical Futures Participant
Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li is a queer writer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist. Her writing is forthcoming or published in The New Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, The Fiddlehead, and CV2, among others. Most recently, she was a Finalist for the Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest, Shortlisted for the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, and Longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her debut short musical dramedy premiered at the 26th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and her debut chapbook, Someday I Promise, I’ll Love You, was published by 845 Press. She has directed for the Or Festival and the Brave New Play Rites Festival. Her full-length play, The Unknown, My Child, which explored three women of successive generations descending into a realm based on the Chinese Underworld, fighting against spirits and addressing their repressed wounds—had its first staged reading with Arts Club Theatre in mid-May. Her creative works engage with themes of Chinese-Canadian identity, mental health, and social justice. She is an editor for Augur and can be reached @vivianlicreates.
Affiliates
Boyd Norman – Book Keeper
board of directors
Ellie O’Day – Chair
Erin Rennison – Vice-Chair
Tejinder Bansal – Treasurer
Kieran Sequoia – Secretary
Directors-At-Large
Kelsey Blair
Rupinder Singh
Susan Miyagishima
Kamran Qavami
Fearless Leaders Through the Ages
Artistic
Camyar Chai (Founder), 1995 – 2005
Adrienne Wong & Marcus Youssef, 2005 – 2013
Marcus Youssef, 2013 – 2020
Management
Mirae Rosner, 2006 – 2008
Kirsty Munro, 2008 – 2015
Matt Moreau, 2015 – 2020
Marketing and Operations Coordinator
Christine Quintana, 2012 – 2017
Communications and Operations Coordinator
Corinna Hagel, 2017 – 2021
Producers
Chris Gatchalian
Stephen Drover
Marisa Smith, 2012 – 2013
Genevieve Fleming, 2015 – 2016
Fay Nass, 2016 – 2017
Davey Calderon, 2017 – 2018
Yvonne Yip, 2020 – 2021 khattieQ, 2021-2022 Sandra Henderson, 2018 – 2022
Artists in Residence
Pedro Chamale, 2014 – 2015
Parjad Sharifi, 2014 – 2015
Natalie Davidson – Community Cultivation Intern, 2017 Anahita Monfared, 2021 – 2022