Untitled (clock piece)

Susannah Haight is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist working across performance, film and installation. Her practice investigates duration, materiality, and ecological relationships through movement, object-based installations. Trained at École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (2017), she has performed with Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Martin Messier, Andrea Peña, and Caroline Laurin-Beaucage. Her durational work Untitled – Clock Piece has been presented at Nuit Blanche Toronto (2024) and Nocturne Festival in Halifax (2025).

Tia is a queer Chinese-Ukrainian dance performance artist based in Treaty 6 Edmonton. She has toured extensively with various artists and companies since 2013. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally with recent premieres at Tangente and OFFTA in 2026. Kushniruk is a 2023 EATF award recipient and the inaugural 2020 Confluence Fellow. She holds an MA in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Toronto (2025) and is a proud mentee of Toronto-based Performance Artist Bridget Moser.

Marynia Fekecz-Mangan is a Polish-born, Edmonton-based dancer, choreographer, performer, teacher, and producer. Holding a degree from the Poznań School of Dance, she brings her lived experience as an artist and mother into her interdisciplinary dance practice. As Artistic Director of MfMdancerArtist, she creates emotionally resonant works that blend movement, personal narrative, and collaboration. Her recent performances include COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, Face2Face and stopstopstop. Marynia has collaborated with acclaimed artists and organizations across Canada and internationally (Kokyu Studio of the Grotowski Institute, W&M Physical Theatre, Alberta Dance Festival, and Harcourt House, Good Women Dance Collective, Mile Zero Dance among others), and is currently developing a new interdisciplinary project with choreographer Penelope Mourot and four Edmonton-based dancers.

Claudia Kulay is a queer, Ukrainian and francophone playwright/producer/multidisciplinary performance artist, based in amiskwaciwâskahikan, 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 creation. Select works include: electrical closet (Magpie Collection Dance Festival – Mile Zero Dance, 2026), The Hubble Space Telescope Dance (Connections//Collisions Cabaret – Mile Zero Dance, 2025), and Headhole (Found Festival, 2025 + Edmonton International Fringe Festival, 2023).

Philip Hackborn (they/them/any), is a performance artist, poet, and producer situated in amiskwaciwâskahikan. They exist and make art at the intersections of race, gender identity, and madness. Select performance credits: FEED [MZD, Zero Lab #3], Hamlet in Isolation [Thou Art Here], Krampus: a Christmas Escape Adventure [Canscare], Devour Content Here [Cowgirl Opera]. Select writing credits: (be)Longing [re:Create, RISER Edmonton], Madness and other Ghost Stories [re:Create, Found Fest], The Shadow and the Fool [re:Create, Next Fest], Fragmented Journeys [Skirtsafire, Expanse Festival].

Born on Massachusett and Wampanoag land, colonially known as the North Shore of Massachusetts, Emilia is a first-generation settler on Treaty 6 territory. She is a puppeteer, educator, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of Boston’s Fork & Shoe Theatre Cooperative and the band pUbeRtykiDs. She is pursuing an MFA in Theatre Practice at the University of Alberta.

Erin Pettifor is an award-winning queer theatre artist based in Treaty 6 / Edmonton. In the 2023 Edmonton Fringe she premiered her solo show Stigma, Pistil and Style, directed by Jacqueline Russell, the Head Hag of Wee Witches. She has worked as a facilitator & performer in theatre for young audiences, in various dance and clown cabarets, on plays new and old, and is a graduate of the BFA Acting program at the U of A. She is currently studying art therapy at St. Stephen’s College.

Geoffrey Simon Brown is an award-winning Albertan playwright, performer, director, and theatre creator. He is a founding member of the Major Matt Mason Collective where he has produced small-scale independent theatre since 2010. His plays have been staged across the country as well as a couple productions in South Korea, strangely. As an actor he has performed on many of the major stages in Alberta as well as some living rooms and basements. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s playwriting program. More at geoffreysimonbrown.com.