People

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 (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

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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.

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.

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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).

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.