Director/Dramaturge/Producer/Performance Artist/Installation Artist

HARRI THOMAS (they/them) is a Trans/Nonbinary, multi-disciplinary live artist working as a director, dramaturg and performance maker, as well as mixologist and visual artist. Their work is driven by a curiosity around the possibilities of hybrid performance forms, and is especially devoted to rarely approached texts, the inventive use of bodies and objects, and the performance of memory. They are a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Directing program, and a founding member of Other Hearts Collective.

Recent Credits: Director/Performer Invisible Artists Carnival (Other Hearts/Eyelevel Gallery, Nocturne 2023), Director Quartet (Other Hearts in association w Video Cabaret, 2024), Director/Dramaturg Belladonna (new opera development workshop, FAWN Chamber Creative, 2024), Director/Dramaturg Too Dirty To Clean (Summerworks, 2024). Associate Director/Creator of Entwined/Distilled, Hopes & Fears Assembly (Sto Union, Nuit Blanche in association with Other Hearts, 2024)

Performer/Writer/Producer/Costume and Prop Design/Dramaturg

Silvae Mercedes is a Mad performer, writer, producer and costume designer based in Toronto, Ontario. Her work as a lyricist has been called "funny, lyrically nimble and jarring in just the right measure" (Charlebois Post, 2013). Her performance in the North American premier of Howard Barker's Lot And His God was given 4 stars by Now Magazine's Jon Kaplan, where her work with fellow actor Prince Amponsah was hailed as "the highlight of the show". She is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy, MI and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, NYC. Performance credits include: Mad Ones (Tangled Art + Disability), Flower Machine v2: Paiseu (Other HeArts, York Lane Art Collective), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Call Me Fitz (HBO Canada).

Scenographer/Performer/Choreogrpher/Production Manager/Technical Director

Sebastian Marziali is an award winning Uruguayan- Canadian artist based in T'karonto. A graduate of Humber's Theatre performance program Sebastian has toured across five continents as an actor, designer, creator, and burlesque perfomer; working within Theatre, Dance, Opera, and Film.

Having had the privilege to work with amazing artists across so many disciplines and scales they're especially proud of having performed in, designed, and choreographed for the sold-out T.O. Fringe hits Lysistrata, Carmilla, and Mayhem at Miskatonik. Selected acting credits: A Streetcar named Desire (Soulpepper Theatre, Upcoming & 2019),Wring the Roses (Madonnanera/High Performance Rodeo, 2022), Blood Wedding (Aluna and Modern Times Theatre, 2015); Recent design: Les Zinspiré.es (Set & Lighting, TfT 2023), Convictions (Set & Lighting, TfT/ Festival Zébrures 2023), Homelands (Lighting, Kaha:wi Dance 2023)

Performer/Writer/Producer/Curator/Educator/Accessibility co-coordinator

Yousef Kadoura is a Disabled Lebanese-Canadian actor, writer, and producer as well as a graduate of the acting program at the National Theatre School of Canada (2017). He was the producer and host of Walking the Space, a podcast series exploring disability in the arts, and was previously the 2018 Curator in Residence at Tangled Art + Disability. Yousef’s recent theatre credits include: Jihad, Eraser, as a part of the Riser Project (2019), Tanjou, Soifs Matériaux at the FTA (2019), and Fifi/Zidan, The Green Line at the Rhubarb festival (2019).

Dancer/Choreographer/Stage Manager/Performance Artist

Misha "Meek" Bauer is a Mad and Gender Queer multidisciplinary movement artist and founding member of #CreateDangerously Collective. A stage and production manager, a front of house manager, operations coordinator, and several other bits and bobs. Never interested in staying in one lane

.As a performer within #CreateDangerously he recently directed, co- choreographed and danced in a short performance entitled Neurons which showed at The Fab Fest in Durham and Fringe the North in North Bay. He is currently working on a structured improve dance performance entitled Within My Skin in association with Other Hearts.

Sculptor/Performance Artist/Academic/Costume and Installation Design

Eija Loponen-Stephenson (she/her) is a sculpture and performance artist whose work is predominantly concerned with interrogating the choreographic relationship between human movement and urban materiality. Her work has been shown locally and nationally in venues such as United Contemporary (2019), Xpace Cultural Centre (2020), Produit Rien (2021), and Fais Moi (2023). She holds a BFA in Sculpture and Installation form the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) and is currently completing her MA in Art Education at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) where she currently lives and works. Recent credits include: the body as a fever dream (Xpace Cultural Center, 2020), In/tention (Produit Rien, 2021), In support of sex work (Images Festival, 2020)

Academic/Stage Manager / Dramaturg/Equity Facilitator / Designer

Senjuti (she/her) is a Bangali-Canadian, Tkaronto based multidisciplinary artist, designer, manager and a librarian. When she’s not working to bring productions and creative visions to fruition, she’s living her socialist fantasy in the very fantastic simulation game, The Sims 4. Some of her previous involvements include working with Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, Other Hearts, The AMY Project, The RISER Project and INDUSTRY and Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF).