People

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 (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 (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.

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.

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