Dr. Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston is an anthropologist, performance theorist, and theatre director. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance & Performance at York University. Her research focuses on performance ethnography, arts-based research, storytelling, autofiction, aging, migration, disability, and climate emotions. She trained as a theatre director under the renowned Polish theatre and visual artist Józef Szajna and has worked as a theatre director and playwright in both Canada and Poland.

Lisa MarieDiLiberto is the Executive Artistic Director at Theatre Direct – one of the country’s leading companies for young audiences; the Founder and Lead Advisor for Balancing Act – a national initiative supporting parents and caregivers in the performing arts; and in 2022 she was co-curator of JUNIOR at Harbourfront Centre – Canada’s largest international children’s festival. Lisa Marie’s most ambitious artistic adventure to date is The Tale of a Town - Canada, an oral history, media and theatre project which toured to every province and territory collecting more than 3,000 stories that were transformed into a suite of site-specific performances. The Tale of a Town was developed in collaboration with the National Arts Centre and produced by FIXT POINT, where Lisa Marie is the founding Artistic Director. The Tale of a Town was awarded Touring Artist of the Year by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts (CAPACOA) and has since been adapted into an animated series for TVO called Main Street Ontario. Other artistic endeavors include the development of a binaural audio piece for World Stage at Harbourfront Centre and the site-specific production of The Four Corners as playwright in residence at Theatre Passe Muraille. Lisa Marie worked in community-engaged art under the mentorship of Ruth Howard as the Associate Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre where she directed Oh the World Will Grow Younger with Mayworks and as the Artistic Director of Arts4All at the Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre. Lisa Marie serves on the board of Community Arts Guild in Scarborough and the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA). She is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, France and currently a PhD candidate at York University pursuing research in site-specific performance ethnography with children. Above all, Lisa Marie is a fierce little league coach for her two wild music-loving baseball playing boys.

Sasha Singer-Wilson (she/her) is a Tkaronto based multidisciplinary artist who works in performance, theatre-making, research, writing, music, and facilitation. With a practice rooted in the project-specific exploration of creative form and process and the tensions and play between them, Sasha's work explores climate justice, place, caregiving, ritual, intergenerational relationships, and the voice. She has co-created performances in basements, alleyways, bathrooms, schools, theatres, lofts and online. Sasha has trained and worked with companies like Next Stage Theatre Festival, The Arts Club, Soulpepper, Jumblies, Brave New Play Rites, Convergence Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Theatre Gargantua, Pleiades Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, SummerWorks, and Playwright’s Theatre Centre. She co-ran the artist-driven theatre company the blood projects where she made immersive and site-specific performances in intimate spaces such as the critically acclaimed Little Tongues, This Is It, and Inside. With a BFA in Acting from York University and an MFA in Theatre and Creative Writing from UBC, Sasha is a research-creation PhD student in Theatre & Performance at York, where her research explores relationality, ancestral and land connection, and decolonization in scholarship, creation and performance. Sasha is honoured to teach Voice & Speech at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre and York, and she has facilitated workshops in theatre-making, creative writing, and voice across Turtle Island. When not creating, you might find Sasha walking by the water, dancing with her kid, or reading poems aloud. www.sashasingerwilson.com