Bronwyn Carradine is a Queer playwright and theatre creator currently based on the unceded lands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and selilwitulh Nation. She has shows in development with Arts Club Theatre Company, Carousel Theatre for Young People and Zee Zee Theatre Company, where she also works as the Artistic Managing Producer. She’s a graduate of Studio 58 and was a member of the Arts Club Theatre Company’s inaugural Emerging Playwright’s Unit in 2018. In her spare time, you can find her either on the couch with her partner and their cat watching Below Deck, or running very long distances in the mountains.

Dave Deveau (he/they) investigates queer themes that speak to a broad audience. His work has been produced across North America and in Europe. He is the Co-Artistic & Managing Director of Carousel Theatre for Young People, and was the Founding Associate Artistic Director of Zee Zee Theatre, a Vancouver-based company that amplifies voices from the margins with a focus on LGBTQ2S+ work. Among his plays that Zee Zee has premiered are the critically-acclaimed My Funny Valentine, Lowest Common Denominator, and  Elbow Room Café: The Musical (with Anton Lipovetsky). They are devoted to creating intelligent, theatrical plays for young people that foster conversation including Out in the Open, tagged, Celestial Being, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls and The Papa Penguin Play. He is currently working on new plays for Zee Zee, the Arts Club, Carousel, and Intrepid Theatre in Victoria. Their plays thus far have been nominated for 28 Jessies, 4 Ovation Awards (Vancouver) and 4 Dora Awards. His book CISSY: Three Gender Plays is published by Talonbooks. 

www.davedeveau.com

Marcus Youssef's plays have been produced across Canada and around the world, from Seattle to Portland to Edmonton to LA to New York to Reykjavik to London, Berlin, Frankfurt and Hong Kong. His plays for young audiences include Jabber, The In-Between and three East Van Pantos. Marcus is a recipient of the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre, as well as Germany’s Ikarus Prize, the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award, the Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, the Chalmers' Canadian Play Award, a Seattle Times Footlight award, the Vancouver Critics’ Innovation award (three times), and an Honorary Fellowship from Vancouver’s Douglas College.

Quelemia is a multi-disciplinary Indigenous artist from the Musqueam Nation. She is a writer, actor, director, storyteller, host and dramaturge.

Though she works in various forms, much of Quelemia’s work centres Indigenous perspective, specifically her Musqueam knowledge and culture.

Over the past 20 years, she has been disseminating sχʷəy̓em̓ (Musqueam history), knowledge of placenames, land-based stories and teachings that were passed down to her from her grandfather Ed Sparrow Sr. and her grandmother Rose Sparrow.

Her writing and theatre practice is land-based and has been driven by a deep desire to reclaim Musqueam placenames, language and history.

Decolonizing her work occurred out of necessity leading her to develop her own Musqueam-based creation methodology Indigenizing the dramaturgical and devised theatre process with Musqueam culture and protocols.