Ann Slote Associate Projection Designer
Sharada K Eswar Creative Associate and Khana & Kahani Storyteller Sharada is an Indo-Canadian writer, singer and storyteller and currently the Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre. Her work has been featured in Canada and internationally. Selected credits include Mahabharata (Why Not Theatre), blue skies, red earth & tall pines (Jumblies Theatre), Chitra (Shaw Festival), Hayavadana (Why Not Theatre/Soulpepper Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Stratford Festival), Abhimanyu (Theatre Direct/National Arts Centre). Upcoming work includes The Butcher’s Song and La-la Land (Jumblies Theatre).
Ann attended the University of California Los Angeles and is a video and lighting designer based in Berlin and San Francisco. Her video design work includes Joywave’s Hellvetica and Cleanse Tours, Quinn XCII’s Festival Tour and MisterWives’ Resilient Little Tour. As video assistant and animator her work includes Stranger Love at LA Philharmonic, Goddess at Berkeley Rep, Dancin’ at The Old Globe and The Sound Inside on Broadway. Lighting design work includes Best Funeral Ever (my russian funeral) for Ballhaus Ost and What You Will for Project Nongenue.
Brandy Leary Choreographer
Crystal Lee Lead Production Manager
Brandy is a choreographer and dancer. Her body of work has been commissioned and produced in Canada, Europe, India, the Arctic, South Africa and the USA, occupying theatres, urban environments, festivals, museums, art galleries and landscapes. Her choreographies have been described as “phenomenological interventions” (Canadian Theatre) , “soulful and sensuous” (The New York Times) and “magisterial movement” (The Guardian, UK) . Brandy is a senior Kalarippayattu practitioner studying for two decades under traditional martial artist VM Vikas Gurukal in Kozhikode (IN), and Founder/ Artistic Director of Anandam Dance Theatre and Co-Founder/Co-Director of Collective Space (Toronto).
Crystal is originally from a small east coast Canadian community in the Chaleur Region. Her first exposure to theatre was in a local high school auditorium – a touring production of The Velveteen Rabbit . After the experience, she was enthralled in how theatre was able to capture effective magic with simple sequences and felt most comfortable facilitating that magic as a production manager. Best advice that has guided her practice? Don’t prep for perfection, but instead for spontaneity! Crystal trained at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Kevin Matthew Wong Lead Producer
Kevin is a Hakka-Canadian theatre creator, dramaturg, video artist and producer. Kevin is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Broadleaf Creative, a company that produces social justice and climate justice-informed artworks. Kevin is also the Director of Producing and Creative Associate at Why Not Theatre leading a diverse portfolio of large-scale and internationally touring projects. Kevin is the inaugural winner of both the Jini Stolk Creative Fellowship and the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Innovative Experience. Kevin’s upcoming Benevolence series is a triptych spanning film, theatre and installation, exploring guesthood and legacy.
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