Get to Know NIGHT

Clarke Blair (she/her) is a queer emerging dance artist and aspiring developmental biologist based in Toronto, ON. She works as a collaborator with Social Growl Dance (Riley Sims), Frog in Hand (Colleen Snell & Noelle Hamlyn), Naishi Wang, Lucy Rupert, and Tia Kushniruk, and was a company member with the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre (CCDT) from 2011 – 2015. In February 2020, she premiered her first solo work, a reshaping of flesh, at Dance Matters (Toronto). Clarke holds an Honours BSc with High Distinction from the University of Toronto in neuroscience and cell biology.

Geoffrey is a playwright, actor, and director born and raised in Calgary. He is a founding member of the Major Matt Mason Collective and has served as the director of the collective’s Wildfire National Playwriting Competition since 2015. His plays include Michael Mysterious, Night, Time, Still Still Still, Control, Air, Destroy, The Circle (which was published by Scirocco Drama in 2017),  If I Could Tell You Everything (written alongside the Theatre Junction high school mentorship ensemble), and the most recent adaptation of A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

Zoë Glassman is an Albertan actor, dancer, producer, and creator. Zoë trained at the Edmonton School of Ballet before completing her BFA in acting at the University of Alberta. Much of her work is focused on mashing dance and theatre together, like her solo show Doc By Lou, Blarney Productions’ To Be Moved, and the national tour of Bears and Minosis Gathers Hope with Punctuate Theatre. She does plays that don’t have dancing in them too, and sometimes makes dances that aren’t plays. Select performance credits outside of the collective include Stupid F@#cking Bird with Edmonton Actors Theatre and digital dance works with Mile Zero and Toy Guns Dance Theatre. With MMMC, Zoe has performed in Little Red (Major Matt Mason and Ghost River Theatre), Premium Content, and Control. Zoë also works at the public library.

Elise CM Jason (they/them/theirs) is a queer, mixed-race artist of South African and Ukrainian heritage. They primarily work as a scenographer and are a Sterling Award nominated lighting designer currently living and creating in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (colonially known as Edmonton). In their practice, they are interested in exploring the intersection of installation and performance in theatre, textile site specific, and found space performance. Their work aims to be collaborative, receptive to ongoing discovery, and supportive of new work in realized applications. They hold a BFA in Theatre Design from the University of Alberta.

Yousuf Liepert is an actor, director, performance/installation artist, and writer from Calgary, Alberta. His plays and installations experiences have been produced at IGNITE! Festival by Sage Theatre (The Problem With Snow, 2018), by Major Matt Mason Collective (Messenger, 2020), Grace Exhibition Space (Flux Flow, 2019), someWHERE NY and NEXTFEST (Sam at the Base of the Mountain, 2019, 2020). He has directed work at Theatre Junction GRAND (If I Could Tell You Everything, 2018), Playwrights Horizons Theatre School (Earthquakes in London, 2018), and now through Major Matt Mason. He recently for the first time performed his poetry through Voyeur Fest.

livmcrobbie is a music producer based out of Millwoods. She takes inspiration from all genres and mediums. Deeply inspired by horror movies and visual artists such as Ralph Steadman and Shintaro Kago, Liv seeks to create surreal, yet accessible music that encompasses the spirit of Edmonton and the people who live there.

Evan is a dramaturg, facilitator, producer, performer, and puppeteer based in both Calgary and Vancouver. His practice primarily focuses on dramaturgical strategizing of process design, community engaged art that intersects with environmental dialogues, and collaborative new play development and production with the Major Matt Mason Collective, for whom he is Co-Artistic Producer. For the past few summers Evan has been working in Prince Edward Island on a piece called The River Clyde Pageant, an outdoor spectacle that celebrates community while drawing attention to the unfortunate reality of PEI’s fading waterways. He has also recently spearheaded a new initiative called Dreaming Climate Consciousness, a collaborative process where participants work together to imagine eco-conscious futures through the lens of speculative/science fiction.

Liz is very excited to be making her Major Matt Mason debut with Night. She’s a Stage Manager by trade who loves working on projects both big and small – and who has just completed her third year at the University of Alberta in their BFA in Stage Management. Select credits include The Birds, Don Juan Comes Back From The War, Belleville (U of A), Pride Mainstage (Calgary Pride 2019), If I Could Tell You Everything (Theatre Junction), and Good Grief! (Downstage Theatre).