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Claudia Kulay (she/they) is a queer and francophone playwright, producer and multidisciplinary performance artist, based in Amiskwaciwaskahikan, colonially known as Edmonton, AB. At the center of their practice is a curiosity for cross-disciplinary collaboration and utilizing philosophies of surrealism and clown as driving forces for writing and creation.

Select works include, The Hubble Space Telescope Dance (Expanse Festival, 2025, Nextfest, 2024), Headhole (Edmonton International Fringe Festival, 2023), GOOD GRIEF (Nextfest, 2023) and happy now (New Works Festival, 2020). Their play, happy now, is the 2020 winner of The Wildfire National Playwriting Competition as supported by the Major Matt Mason Collective. Additionally, she writes and produces satirical video essays for the internet about film and popular media; an ongoing virtual performance project that tackles artistic identity, authorship, creative labour and what it means to make/consume “bad art”. She also made this website: www.claudiakulay.com.

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Geoffrey Simon Brown is an award-winning Albertan theatre maker. He is a founding member of  the Major Matt Mason Collective where he has produced small-scale independent theatre for  the past fourteen years. He made his Found Festival debut back in 2015 performing his play, Air,  in a very hot living room. Last year he did double duty, acting in Brick Shithouse (Fenceless  Theatre/Found Festival) and searching for four-leaf clovers in End of Steel park. Other  Edmonton credits include the premiere productions of his plays Michael Mysterious (Pyretic  Productions) and Night (MMMC/Common Ground Arts Society), dramaturgy for Cycle (Thou Art  Here), as well as performing in The Woman In Black, Deathtrap (Teatro LIVE!), Re:Construct (Donkey Dog Theatre), and Subscribe or Like (Workshop West). He directed the 2023 Fringe  production of This Won’t Hurt, I Promise (Tiny Bear Jaws) for which he was nominated for a  Sterling Award. His other plays include The Circle, Progress, Static, Still Still Still, and the most  recent adaptation of A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. More at geoffreysimonbrown.com.

Originally from Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Jess has called Edmonton home since 2018. They hold a  BFA in Stage Management from the University of Alberta. When they aren’t in a theatre you can  find Jess browsing a record store, reading a book, or watching trashy reality TV. Recent credits  include: Disney’s Frozen, Little Women (Citadel Theatre) The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth  Night (Freewill Shakespeare), Orlando, Wildfire, Rough Magic, She Kills Monsters (Studio  Theatre), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (NUOVA Vocal Arts), The Circle, Girl in the  Goldfish Bowl (Bleviss Laboratory Theatre), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (NUOVA  Vocal Arts).

David Gagnon Walker is a writer, performer, and translator born in Edmonton and based in  Toronto. His work has been performed and developed in cities across Canada, and through  residencies in Sweden, Finland, France, Australia, and the USA. David’s play This Is the Story of  the Child Ruled by Fear has been touring since 2021, with twelve presenters to date, and is  published by Playwrights Canada Press. Other recent projects include Premium Content (Major  Matt Mason Collective/High Performance Rodeo), The Last Children (Curtain Razors), and the  English translation of Gabrielle Chapdelaine’s The Retreat (Imago Theatre). David holds an M.A.  in Performance Studies from the University of Toronto, and is a graduate of the playwriting  program at the National Theatre School of Canada. www.davidgagnonwalker.com

Liv is a music producer based out of Millwoods. They take inspiration from all genres and  mediums. Deeply inspired by movies, visual artists, and video games, Liv seeks to create surreal,  yet accessible music that encompasses the spirit of Edmonton and the people who live there.  She has previously worked on the shows Night (Major Matt Mason Collective) and Cycle (Thou  Art Here Theatre).

Morgan Yamada (she/her) works as an actor, fight director, arts educator, and Co-Artistic  Producer of Azimuth Theatre. She’s also an emerging intimacy director, with a practice rooted in  physical storytelling, sustainability mindsets, and finding joy along the way. 

She’s thrilled to be working with the incredible Headhole team and to be a part of Found Fest’s  bold and brilliant line-up. 

Recent credits include Where You Are, After Mourning – Before van Gogh, and 10  Funerals (Shadow Theatre – Intimacy Direction), Little Women (Citadel Theatre), A Streetcar  Named Desire (Theatre Calgary/Citadel), The Play That Goes Wrong (The Grand/MTC/Theatre  Calgary/Citadel – Fight & Intimacy Direction), The Three Musketeers (Arts  Club/Citadel), Glory (WCT/Chemainus/National Tour), and Pride and Prejudice (Citadel) as a  performer. 

Keep up with upcoming workshops and shows at www.morganyamada.com.

Jasmine Hopfe (she/they) is a queer, Egyptian/European, multidisciplinary theatre artist,  producer, and arts administrator from the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm  (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (specifically  Vancouver, British Columbia), currently living and working in amiswaciwâskahikan (Edmonton,  Alberta). They graduated from the University of Alberta with a BA in Drama (Honours) in 2023,  and their theatrical practice is currently focused on performance, dramaturgy, and playwriting.  Her present practice is rooted in the fluidity, multiplicity, and contradictions of identity from her  perspective as a queer, mixed-race person, resistance against systems of marginalization and  oppression, and the imagining of new worlds that transcend the limitations that these systems,  as well as ourselves as individuals and communities, bind us within. Recent acting credits  include: Adama in TELEVANGELISTS (Dog Bite Theatre Collective), Chorus in After the Trojan  Women (Alma Theatre), Rosie in Brick Shithouse (fenceless theatre), Ann in All My Sons (Walterdale Theatre), and Cassandra in Stir Crazy (Groovy Gremlin Theatre).

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Meegan Sweet is a queer multidisciplinary artist, creator and clown based  in amiskwacîwâskahikan (colonially known as Edmonton, Alberta). Meegan holds a Bachelor of  Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Alberta (2020) as well as a diploma in Theatre  Performance and Creation from Red Deer Polytechnic (Red Deer College, 2016). When they’re  not doing theatre, they are usually birdwatching or volunteering at WILDNorth as a Wildlife  Rehabilitator and Helpline Operator. Their work has been featured in many Edmonton festivals  including NextFest, SkirtsAfire Festival, Play the Fool Festival and Edmonton International Fringe  Festival. Select credits include, Stars On Her Shoulders (Emma Ross – Workshop West  Playwrights Theatre), The S.P.O.T.T. – Shiniest Piece of Trailer Trash (Performer & Creator – Edmonton International Fringe Festival), The Tempest (Ariel – Freewill Shakespeare  Festival, OWEaDEBT (Director & Set Designer – Adelaide International Fringe Festival 2024)