Susanna Fournier is an award-winning writer, theatre maker, actor, and educator based in Toronto. She is most known for writing texts for live performance, visioning interdisciplinary productions, and that gig she had in that X-Men movie. She is the artistic producer of PARADIGM productions, an indie company she started in 2013 to produce rowdy, joyous, contentious, and “impossible” theatrical works. Her work has played in Toronto, Dublin, London, Berlin, and Munich, and is known for its formal experimentation and wild spirit. She is currently the playwright-in-residence at Canadian Stage.
ted witzel (he/him) is a queer theatremaker and arts leader based (sort of) in toronto. he has worked in theatres in vancouver, montreal, stratford, ottawa, london, berlin, milan, palermo, stuttgart, ingolstadt, baden-baden, and bad hersfeld. he and susie have done a lot of strange things for art together, many of them naked. www.thisisnttaedon.com.
Leora Morris is a director/creator who splits her time between Canada and the USA. She has collaborated with artists and theatres across North America, including the Public Theater, Coal Mine Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Alliance Theatre, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Olney Theatre Center, Small Wooden Shoe, Dancemakers, Volcano, Theatre Aquarius, Tarragon Theatre, Canadian Stage, and Nightswimming. Leora received her M.F.A. in Directing at the Yale School of Drama, where she served as co-artistic director of Yale Cabaret. In 2020, Leora was shortlisted for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts prize. She loved the decade she spent collaborating on The Empire with Susanna. www.leoramorris.com.
Alison Wong is a director, producer, and performance maker born in Hong Kong and now based in Treaty 13 territory, also known as Toronto. A graduate of York University and Canadian Stage’s M.F.A. in directing, her work in opera and theatre—with a focus on transnational and plurilingual storytelling—has taken her across Turtle Island (Canada and the United States), to Italy, India, and the Netherlands. As an independent creative producer, she thrives on building world premiere productions of new performance works. She has also produced with b current, Small Wooden Shoe, Theatre Direct and WeeFestival, SummerWorks Performance Festival, and Luminato.
