





Luke Reece
Luke Reece is an award-winning producer, playwright, and poet. He is an artistic leader within the national arts community, advocating for engaging and nuanced storytelling.

Joseph Aragon
Joseph Aragon is a Winnipeg-based composer and playwright. A veteran of the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, Joseph is a two-time winner of the Harry Rintoul Memorial Award for Best New Manitoban Play.


Chantal Forde
Chantal Forde is a writer and director with a passion for creating new works and taking on theatrical opportunities that challenge and inspire.

Andrew Moodie
Andrew Moodie is an Ontario-based actor/playwright/director who began his playwriting career in 1995 with his first play, Riot.

Ahmed Moneka
Ahmed Moneka is an Actor/musician/writer/director a multidisciplinary artist who arrived in Toronto from Baghdad five years ago and has since collaborated with many art institutions.

Andrew Broderick
Andrew Broderick is a Black artist based in Toronto, Ontario. He's performed across the country in musicals, plays, and new works; as well as creative directed/ photographed images for artists and companies.
Fatuma Adar
Fatuma Adar is a Somali-Canadian writer based in Toronto. She was long-listed in CBC’s Creative Nonfiction Prize and profiled in Up Close: Young Black Women Making Canada Better.

Kanika Ambrose
Kanika Ambrose is a playwright and librettist, currently in-residence at Cahoots Theatre, developing her play "our place." Her work has been featured at Obsidian Theatre Company, Curtis Institute of Music, Tapestry Opera, Rhubarb Festival and Toronto Fringe. Kanika is proud Artistic Producer of Paprika Festival and one of Cahoots Theatre Company's 30 for 30 theatremakers for their 30th anniversary season.


Ray Strachan
Ray is a Winnipeg born artist of Grenadian and Filipino descent. He trained with The Black Hole Theatre and The Banff Centre, and has worked in Film/TV, and at various Theatres across Canada.

Shawn Lall
Shawn Lall - Professional Emotionalist. Aspiring adult. Interested in opportunities for artistic leadership development and forever curious about works which explore the nature of exile.

Michelle Bardach
Michelle Bardach is an indigenous singer/actor from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and the We Wai Kai Nation. Vancouver and Toronto based, with a US green card.
