Frankenstein(esque) brings five artists together along with a 6 foot tall puppet in a loose understanding of Mary Shelley’s original novel, along with conflicting views on parenting and art.
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After a sold-out run in 2021, as well as seven Dora nominations and two wins (Outstanding Performance by an Individual & the Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award), Guild Festival Theatre‘s (GFT) Alice In Wonderland will make a spectacular return to Guild Park before touring to theatres across the province.
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Traffic tickets can be utterly irritating, especially when you know you did nothing wrong… according to your version of events, that is.
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light many deficiencies in social supports for all but most importantly for those living with limited means, including lack of housing.
In Someone Lives Here, director Zack Russell follows carpenter Khaleel Seivwright who decides to take action to help unhoused people, living outside in Toronto during the winter of the pandemic, by building ‘tiny shelters’.
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Damon Bradley Jang (He/Him/His) is a multifaceted performing arts practitioner and creator. A graduate of Capilano University’s Music Theatre program and Innagural Bachelors of Performing Arts program. He is also the Co-artistic/marketing director of Fabulist Theatre in British Columbia, Canada.
Jang is currently in his second year as a member of the Stratford Festival‘s Birmingham Conservatory and he is the first IBPOC/BIPOC male directing candidate.
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Writer-director-star Kit Zauhar‘s debut feature Actual People is currently streaming on global streaming platform MUBI. The film focuses on Riley, a young woman in her final week of college who ends up having to confront anxieties about her love life, family, and future.
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郝邦宇 Steven Hao is a Chinese-Canadian actor, singer, writer and director born and raised in China. He is a recent Toronto Metropolitan University graduate who is already making a name for himself in the theatre world. Hao will appear next in Shakespeare BASH’d’s upcoming production of The Tragedy of King Lear.
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Writer/Director Rashad Frett‘s latest short film RICKY is a combination of people in Frett’s personal life inspired him to write this film. They described how difficult it was to get rid of institutionalized habits as well as the difficulties with reintegration. For some, it became so overwhelming that it eventually resulted in isolation from their families and friends.
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Danish filmmaker Lin Alluna first met renowned Greenlander Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter by coincidence seven years ago in Copenhagen. In their initial coffee meeting, Aaju “revealed hidden truths aboutmyself and the history of my country, that I knew I had to find a way to share.” It was at this time that the seed was planted to work on this documentary together, TWICE COLONIZED.
Aaju has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her language and culture after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation.
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Chanda Dancy is an artist and composer for film and other multimedia projects. She has been a fellow of the 2009 Sundance Film Composers Lab, and a winner of the 2002 BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship for Aspiring Film Composers and the 2004 APM/YMF Music Business Award.
Her composing work includes music for the hit Netflix TV Original THE DEFEATED starring Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights), and most recently, the Korean War era epic DEVOTION starring Jonathan Majors (Da 5 Bloods, Loki).
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