I make performance from the body out; where breath, rhythm, and object collide in poetic eruptions of life, death, memory and oddity. I work in mask, puppetry, clown, chorus and non-verbal theatre to reach what language often evades: the subconscious image, the grotesque beauty, the fragile absurdity of being here together.

 

My practice is rooted in Lecoq-based methodologies and ritual practices, shaped by years of collaboration with artists across disciplines. I create work that begins with a visual world, a gesture, a fragment, a scent, a tension in the room. I follow what disturbs me or draws me in. I allow chaos, structure, rigor, and instinct to move in conversation. I am not here to make something tidy. I am here to unearth and sweat it out. 

 

I believe in the reasons of wildness and extreme slowness.

 

My theatre is sensual, philosophical, and maximal. It is anti-realist, anti-performative, and anti-passive.

 

I am not interested in building characters.

I am interested in building metaphors you can feel in your stomach.

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I create worlds where bodies are allowed to fall apart, where objects are allowed to come alive, and where artists are expected to meet the work, not perform around it.

 

I teach and create with the belief that rigor and play are not opposites, but twins.

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At the core, I make theatre as a form of sentient activation

 

When not creating, I lead a passionate career as the co-Artistic/Education director of the Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry with Peter Balkwill.

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 In the past I have worked with or presented at: Festival TransAmériques, The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Festival of Animated Objects, The Expanse Festival, Alberta Gallery of Art, Mile Zero Dance, Le Festival international de Casteliers, Sage Theatre, Springboard Performance, Festival of Animated Objects, Swallow A Bicycle, Theatre Junction, the Pacitti Company (UK), The Invisible Dog (NYC), and mentored with immersive theatre giant PunchDrunk in their London production A Drowned Man. I have trained around the world at: The London International School of Performing Arts (Thomas Prattki, UK), Dell’ Arte International School of Physical Theatre (California), The Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance (Canada) and with the SITI Company NYC Summer Viewpoints Intensive.