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
Artistic Associates

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

Ana Lorena Pérez Rolando
Division Infinity Saves The World!
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.

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

Ashley Lee
Critical Futures Mentor
Ashley Lee is a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where she writes about theater, movies, television and the bustling intersection of the stage and the screen. Her stories have spearheaded important industry conversations about equity on Broadway, culturally authentic storytelling and abuses of power at theater companies. An alum of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute and Poynter’s Power of Diverse Voices, she also leads workshops on arts journalism at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. She is currently working remotely alongside her dog, Oliver.

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.

Cheyenne Rouleau
Fat Joke

Evelyn Chew
LEAD

Janet Smith
Critical Futures Mentor
Janet Smith (she/her) has been covering the arts in Vancouver for three
decades, starting out as arts writer, theatre reviewer, and editor at the West
Ender, then moving to the Georgia Straight as arts editor. She’s also
freelanced for publications including Seattle Weekly, PostMedia, Where
Vancouver, Now Toronto, Dance Magazine, and the Dance Current. In
2020, she helped to found and lead editorial for Stir, a new Vancouver
digital platform dedicated solely to arts. She teaches writing at KPU and
sits on the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. Janet trained at Carleton
University’s Journalism program in Ottawa, with a specialization in fine arts
and film. She lives on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the
Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm
(Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-
Waututh) Nations.
CRITICS PROGRAM:
For the Critics Program, we will have fun taking a wide look at theatre
criticism in digital and print media as it exists today—both locally and
internationally—learning the basic structures and components to a review,
and what we like and don’t like. We’ll discuss what a theatre review can
and can’t be, what its purpose is, and such key factors as tone, subjectivity,
objectivity, and criteria. We’ll also delve into what makes for a strong review
writing, such as active verbs, wider context, specific details—the kind you
have to scratch out on a notepad in the dark—and a strong, unified
lede/argument/theme. And then, of course, we’ll try our hand at writing
reviews, with lots of editorial-style feedback.

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!

Lindsay Lachance
Critical Futures Mentor
Lindsay Lachance (Algonquin Anishinaabe) has worked as a dramaturg for over a decade and has a PhD from the department of theatre and film at the University of British Columbia. Lindsay’s dramaturgical practice is influenced by her relationship with birch bark biting and the Gatineau River. She is also the director of the Animikiig Creators Unit at Native Earth Performing Arts, which focuses on the development of new Indigenous works.
CRITICS PROGRAM:
We will exploring replacing reviews with love letters – https://www.vancouverplays.com/love-letters-cultch-kamloopa-18.shtml

Matt Clarke
Division Infinity Saves The World!

Nathan Kay
LEAD 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.

Sandra Henderson
LEAD
Sandra Henderson is a settler and performance maker based on SḴŦAḴ, the unceded territories of the Straits Salish peoples, also known as Mayne Island. She began her theatre career in Tkaronto in 2005, working as a technician and stage manager, then production manager, rehearsal director, performer and eventually producer. Sandra is most interested in working at the intersection of creative/technical in making live art works. She’s spent some time on the road including touring experimental choreography in Slovenia, Croatia and Japan; outdoor surrealist dance in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands; theatre for young audiences across remote, rural and reserve locations in Canada, from Haida Gwaii to Rainy River; and large-scale works of theatre and dance at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques, Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and on the Louisiana bayou. Sandra arrived on unceded Coast Salish territory in 2018 to take on the role of Producer for Neworld Theatre, where the LEAD Ensemble was the very first project on her roster. Now working part-time and remotely as the Ensemble Producer for Neworld, she’s heavily focused on her most important role to date – raising a member of the next generation.

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!

Stephen Drover
Critical Futures Mentor
Stephen has worked as a director or dramaturg on over 60 professional theatre productions and has taught and directed at Memorial University, Douglas College, Neptune Theatre School, and UBC. He holds a BFA from Memorial University of Newfoundland, an MFA in Directing from the University of British Columbia, and is currently pursuing an MA in Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy from the University of Ottawa. Stephen has been an Associate Director at Theatre Newfoundland Labrador, co-founder and Artistic Director for Pound of Flesh Theatre, Artistic
Director at Rumble Theatre, Project Coordinator for Electric Company Theatre, Artist-in-Residence at Neworld Theatre, and currently is in charge of New Works and Professional
Engagement at the Arts Club. Current dramaturgy projects include Redbone Coonhound and Blackfly (both by Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton), Forgiveness by Hiro Kanagawa, Medea by Carmen Aguirre, Bella Luz by Alexandra Lainfiesta, and The Cull by Michele Riml & Michael St. John Smith.
CRITICS PROGRAM:
“A play is a machine for generating meaning. Dramaturgy is the art and study of understanding how that meaning is created through dramatic composition. In this module, we will explore the fundamentals of dramaturgy including different dramaturgical models, the impact of various theoretical frameworks, and tools for script analysis.”

Vivian Li
Critical Futures Participant
Affiliates
Dani Fecko – Touring Agent, Fascinator Management
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
Communications
Christine Quintana
Corinna Hagel
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
Artists in Residence
Pedro Chamale, 2014-2015
Parjad Sharifi, 2014-2015
Natalie Davidson – Community Cultivation Intern, 2017 Anahita Monfared, 2021-2022