COLLABORATORS
Tanya Evanson (Director)
Tanya Evanson is an Antiguan-Canadian writer, performer, producer and educator from Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She presents spoken word internationally, has released four audio recordings and is director of The Banff Centre Spoken Word Program and ANU live art performances. “Bothism” (2017 Ekstasis Editions) is her first poetry collection and “Nouveau Griot” is forthcoming from Frontenac House in November 2018. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.
Tamara Brown (Director)
Tamara Brown is a Montreal-based actress, singer, director, and poet with a love for storytelling, geekery, and social justice. Co -founder of Montreal’s Metachroma Theatre, her favourite acting credits include Afrika Solo,The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Black Theatre Workshop/Centaur Theatre/NAC), Richard III(Metachroma), Robin Hood (Geordie Productions), Humans (Tableau D'Hote), Da Kink In My Hair (Theatre Calgary/NAC), and for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf (Soulpepper). As a director, her work has been seen in Toronto, Winnipeg, New York, Stratford, and Montreal.
Mike Paterson (Director)
Mike Paterson is a Montreal-based comedian, writer and actor.
As a stand-up comic, Mike regularly tours across Canada and has made over a dozen appearances at the prestigious Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. He has been featured on CTV’s ComedyNow! and has contributed to the popular CBC Radio programs Laugh Out Loud and The Debaters.
After performing in English for over 20 years, Mike is now transcending linguistic borders and carving out a name for himself as a bilingual comedian. He was featured on the Videotron Juste pour rire Gala hosted by Mike Ward, and Peter McLeod’s ComediHa! Gala in Quebec City, marking his third televised appearance at the French language comedy festival (formerly Le Festival Grand Rire de Québec). This past year, he was a writer and performer on the wildly popular Mike Ward Show on Teletoon.
Mike is widely recognized as Mr. Gross on the CBC children's game show series Surprise! It's Edible Incredible! as well as for his work on Apartment 11’s Rank the Prank. Other television credits include Teletoon’s Toon Marty, the Disney channel MOW Bad Hair Day, The Game directed by Jacob Tierney, Syfy’s Being Human, the Quebec hit series Ces gars la (V), En avant la MusiquePlus!, and The Fixer with Kathleen Robertson (Beverly Hills 90210) and Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy). On the feature film side, Mike has appeared in I’m Not There starring Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale, George Clooney’s directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Dominion opposite Rhys Ifans and John Malkovich and most recently, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan, directed by Xavier Dolan. Also an accomplished theatre actor, Mike has had lead roles in the Segal Centre productions of The Odd Couple, Harvey, Guys and Dolls and Glengarry Glen Ross. He is a graduate of the Dawson College Professional Theatre program (DOME).
In his spare time, Mike works for the IWS (International Wrestling Syndicate) as manager of The Black Fists Wrestling Faction.
Mike’s world is just a little bit wacky, a little bit unexpected and all hilarious.
Rosaruby Klagan Glaberman (Director)
Rosaruby Kagan Glaberman is a Drama Therapist, Actor, Director and Theatre Producer. She has been performing, writing and producing independent theatre pieces internationally for over fifteen years. She is the co-creator of The Live Action Theatre Project, a theatre collective focused on exploring approaches to co-constructing story and interacting with its audiences. Invested in the therapeutic potential of embodied art forms she runs her own private psychotherapy practice, directs self-revelatory performances and facilities arts based therapeutic workshops throughout Montreal.
Cat Lemieux (Director)
Cat Lemieux is best known as a bilingual actress. Throughout her career she has had the pleasure to work with some of Montreal’s most acclaimed independent theatre companies; Tableau d’Hôte, Scapegoat Carnivale, Mainline Theatre and Repercussion Theatre. Cat has performed in both the Montreal and New York City Fringe festivals. In
addition she has co-hosted multiple Montreal Fringe4ALL events, and their nightly “variety talk show” - L’Après Fringe the 13th Hour. In 2013, Cat was awarded a META for “Best Supporting Actress” in David Lindsay Abaire’s Good People (Centaur Theatre). For film, Cat has appeared in Jean-Claude Lauzon’s masterpiece Léolo, White House Down
(Roland Emmerich), The Walk (Robert Zimmeckis). For Television, Cat has played memorable recurring roles, most notably in SyFy’s Helix (Season 1&2) and Radio Canada’s critically acclaimed series Série Noire (Season 1&2).
Marie Leofeli Romero Barlizo (Director)
Marie Leofeli Romero Barlizo is a Filipino-Chinese playwright, dramaturg and screenwriter who was born in the Philippines but grew up in Montreal. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia's Optional-Residency Creative Writing MFA Program and holds a BFA in Theatre from Concordia University. She is the first visible minority to graduate from the National Theatre School's Playwriting Program. Marie interned at Nightswimming Theatre, courtesy of the Metcalf Foundation Grant for Professional Development (2009) in dramaturgy, where she assisted Brian Quirt on Nightswimming's projects. As a dramaturg, she has also worked at Alberta Theatre Projects (Calgary), fu-Gen Asian Canadian Theatre Company (Toronto), Out Productions and Centaur Theatre (Montreal). Her plays have been showcased at Playwrights Theatre Centre’s New Play Festival in Vancouver, fu-Gen Asian-Canadian Theatre Company’s Annual Potluck Festival (Toronto), Playwrights' Workshop Montreal, Teesri Duniya Theatre (Montreal) and at Factory Theatre's CrossCurrent Festival (Toronto). She was the Artist-in-Residence at Black Theatre Workshop in dramaturgy for the 2015-2016 season and currently mentors their emerging playwrights in their Artist Mentorship Program. She developed her playLucky at Banff Playwrights Retreat last February 2017. Her play, Unang Pasko Sa Montreal(First Christmas in Montreal) was part of Urban Tales Series at the Centaur Theatre this past December (2017). Excerpts of her play Lucky was performed in PlayShed's WRK N PRGRSSMultidisciplinary Showcase (2017) and will be in the Montreal Off-Fringe Festival this summer 2018. She will be directing parts of Lynn Kozak's translation of the Iliad in the spring and will be a Resident Artist at The MAI (Montreal's Intercultural Arts Centre)) in May-June 2018. She is a board member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA). Her article “Diversity in Bloom in Montreal English Theatre” was recently published in the spring edition of TicArtToc No. 10 (Diversite Artistique Montreal).
Sophie Gee (Director)
Sophie Gee is a director of mostly new creations which she presents under the name Nervous Hunter. Works include The Phaedra Project (No! I! Don't! Want! To! Fall! In! Love! With! You!) (Montreal, arts interculturels, Montreal), I Am Such a Small Container for All This (Iceland, SEAS Festival), and Domestik (Eastern Bloc, Montreal). As a director of text, she recently worked on a lab performance of Suzan-Lori Park's Fucking A for Imago Theatre's Her Side of the Story: Revision to Resist festival and Pluck'd by Ke Xin Li at the Wildside Festival. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Directing Programme, Sophie strives for ways to combine her love of text and story with the working and research processes of dance and contemporary art.
Leslie Baker (Director)
Artistic director of newly formed company The Bakery, Leslie has worked internationally as a creator, teacher, performer and movement coach since the 1990’s. She works in traditional theatrical arenas as well as in-situ performance installations. She is devoted to the use of the body, visual and aural signifiers in performance communication. Leslie has as rich collaborative history. Notably, she began a ten-year collaboration with Robert Wilson in 1995, while developing other successful collaborations with Richard Foreman, Peter Bottazzi, Tedi Tafel, Micheline Chevrier, Emma Tibaldo, Joseph Shragge, Bettina Hoffman, amongst others. She has toured her devised interdisciplinary creations internationally to performance festivals. Her solo-creation, Fuck You! You Fucking Perv!, was presented at Le Théâtre La Licorne in October 2016 receiving three META awards.
Alain Goulem (Director)
Alain has been working in the theatre and film for over thirty years. As an actor he has twice been nominated for a Gemini award for his work on the CBC comedy The Tournament, for which he won the 2006 Montreal ACTRA Award for Best Performance in Film or TV. He currently stars on the CBC comedy 18 to Life. He has performed on stage at Manitoba Theatre For Young Audiences, The Citadel, Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Banff Centre, The Stratford Festival and the Centaur Theatre, among others.
His directing credits include: The Complete Works of Wllm SHkspr (abridged) and Shakespeare’s Lost Play for Repercussion Theatre. The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine at Hudson Village Theatre, Fire for Theatre Lac Brome. Alain has also directed many first productions of Canadian plays, notably Alex Haber’s Housekeeping and
Homewrecking and Colleen Wagner’s Down from Heaven (Imago Theatre). Alain has taught acting for camera, scene study and improv at Youtheatre and ASM Performing Arts. Among the many collective creations he has helped develop and direct are the Just for Laughs Fringe hit MöcShplat (a clown-gibberish adaptation of Macbeth) and the critically lauded Ümlout (a clown-gibberish adaptation of Hamlet).
Cristina Cugliandro (Director)
Cristina Cugliandro is a Montreal based director and co-founder / artistic director of Odd Stumble Theatre's Montreal branch, a company that supports the development of artists by collaborating on workshop productions, innovative site-responsive creations and gatherings, and socially engaged theatre practices. Directing credits include In Search of Mrs. Pirandello (The Rialto Theatre 2015 / The Centaur Theatre’s Wildside Festival 2016), Enough Already (Mainline Theatre 2016), Elsewhere (The Rialto Theatre 2017), What Happened after Nora left her Husband (Imago Theatre 2017), Possible Worlds (Bishops’ University 2017). Cristina holds a master’s degree in Text and Performance from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and Birkbeck University and was recently shortlisted for the Gina Wilkinson Prize. Heartfelt thanks to Lynn and Alex for the countless glorious moments.
Stefanie Buxton (Director)
Stefanie is a Montréal-based actor, writer, acting instructor, musician and emerging director. Stefanie has performed in productions with the Centaur Theatre, Imago Theatre, Scapegoat Carnivale, The Other Theatre, Talisman Theatre, Théâtre Urbi et Orbi, Composite Theatre, Black Theatre Workshop and The Segal Centre, Tableau d'Hôte, Geordie Theatre Productions and many more. She is an acting instructor at Dawson College in the Professional Theatre program, and has been a mentor with Imago's ARTISTA mentorship program for young female artists, as well as an instructor with Geordie Theatre School. Stefanie is currently in development with a play she has written and will be performing in the summer of 2018. Stefanie is thrilled to be a part of "Previously on...The Iliad". Thanks to Lynn and Alex, Roy and all the brilliant creators taking part in this wonderful project.
Talya Rubin (Director)
Talya Rubin is a writer and performance maker who runs an interdisciplinary theatre company called Too Close to the Sun. She has toured her original solo works in Australia and Canada to Arts House, Performance Space, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane Festival, Vitalstatistix, Metro Arts, UNO festival, Summerworks, Wildside and Theatre La Chapelle. As a drama teacher and director, Talya has worked at Sydney University, McGill University, NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts), AFTRS (Australian Film Television and Radio School) and the Darlinghurst Theatre. She won the Bronwen Wallace Award for poetry for the most promising writer under the age of 35. Her first book of poetry, Leaving the Island, was published with Vehicule Press in April 2015. She is currently working on a new solo work called At the End of the Land about the liminal space between life and death. It will involve spirit photography, death metal, transcendental meditation and a red monkey who is the Devil's minion.
Myrna Wyatt Selkirk (Director)
Myrna Wyatt Selkirk (Director) is an Associate Professor at McGill University where she teaches acting and directing. A few of the productions she has directed at McGill: Richard III, The Vibrator Play, Blue Planet, Cloud 9, A Dream Play, The Good Person of Sichuan, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Merchant of Venice, Zadie’s Shoes, The Sea, Tooth and Nail, Bonjour la Bonjour, Twelfth Night and Life and Limb. Myrna’s work and play is heavily influenced by an intense study of and fascination with clown and mask in both training and performance.
Alexis Diamond (Director)
Alexis Diamond is a Montreal-based playwright, librettist and translator. Recently, Alexis won a Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac, Quebec, an Individual Artist residency at the international Saari Residence, Finland, and a residency with contemporary circus artist Marjukka Erälinna at Nau Côclea, Spain. Her award-winning plays, operas and translations for audiences of all ages have been presented across Canada, in the U.S. and in Europe. She is currently working on a historical diptych set in Montreal in the early 1940s, two musicals, and a bilingual piece for performer and percussion aimed at audiences aged 0-5 with composer Stephanie Moore. She is co-founder of Composite Theatre Co. and a long-standing member of Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal and the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada.
Alison Darcy (Director)
Alison is an actor, director, producer, teacher, dramaturge and the Co-Artistic Director/Founder of Scapegoat Carnivale Theatre. Currently she is co-writing the play Yev with Joseph Shragge, in which she will play the title role.
Jacqueline van de Geer (Director)
Jacqueline van de Geer is a Montreal-based artist working primarily in performance. Hailing from the Netherlands, where she studied visual and performance art, her current practice is inspired by literature, mythology, history and personal memory. Since her arrival to Montreal in 2005, her performative actions have combined object theatre, devised theatre, dance and integrated arts. Collective creation is an important part of her practice, and this philosophy informs her
work both with fellow artistic collaborators as well as with her audiences. As such, developing strong connections with viewers is elemental: her performances offer many the opportunity to become active participants, with these spontaneous exchanges becoming an integral part of her pieces. Besides making solo work and collaborations , she is also a dj, theatre teacher and director. Jacqueline speaks four languages: Dutch, German, English and French. She often feels blessed.
Tania Dos Santos (Director)
Tania Dos Santos is an emerging director and performer based in
Montreal. She recently wrote and directed her first short film titled
MIŁOŚĆ (LOVE), which screened at SHORT to the Point festival in
Bucharest, Porny Days Film Art Festival in Zurich and Fish&Chips Film Festival - International Erotic Film Festival in Turin. Next she will be directing a theatre piece featuring writer and performer Stefanie Buxton in summer 2018.
Martin Law (Director)
Martin is the co-founder of the Spirit of the Fringe winning Chocolate Moose Theatre Company, founder of Theatre Sans Argent, treasurer for the Freestanding Room collective, an actor and independent theatre creator with a specialty in unconventional work. Recent creations include The Thrill of the Chaise, Plays By Kids, The Fall and Conspiracy!
Martin Law has done a slew of recent work with the Trojan War as an archetypal story, including performing in two renditions of Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s one-person show An Iliad, producing Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and co-directing Trojan Barbie. He is very happy to be working under Lynn’s aegis again.
Micheline Chevrier (Director)
For the past 35 years, Micheline has worked across Canada as a director, artistic director, dramaturg and instructor.
As a director, she has worked at such theatres as The Shaw Festival, the National Arts Centre, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, the Citadel, the Globe Theatre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Canadian Stage, Young People’s Theatre, Théâtre français de Toronto, the Centaur Theatre, Segal Centre, Geordie Productions, Imago Theatre and Theatre New Brunswick among others. She has also worked abroad with BeMe Productions in both Barcelona and Munich.
Micheline’s directorial credits include works by Molière, Virginia Woolf, J.M. Synge, Chekhov, Caryl Churchill, Dario Fo, Brecht, Shaw, Lynn Nottage, Edward Albee, as well as several Canadian playwrights such as John Murrell, Wendy Lill, Erin Shields, David Young and Ann-Marie Macdonald, just to name a few. She has also directed plays in translation by several Quebec playwrights, including Michel Tremblay, Michel Marc Bouchard, Jean–Marc Dalpé, François Archambault and Carole Fréchette. Over the past decade, she has worked on several new adaptations of Greek tragedies by both Sophocles and Euripides. She has also collaborated with playwrights on new creations for young audiences, adapting for the stage works by Homer and Hans Christian Andersen.
From 1995 to 2000, Micheline was the Artistic Director of the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa, where she premiered many new works as well as several Canadian classics. She was Associate Artistic Director at Theatre New-Brunswick from 1990 to 1992, Associate Dramaturg at Playwrights Workshop Montreal from 1992 to 1993 and, from 2002 to 2004, was Associate Artist at Canadian Stage in Toronto. Since 2013, Micheline has been the Artistic Director of Montreal’s Imago Théâtre (imagotheatre.ca).
Micheline has also directed, taught and coached at the National Theatre School, Concordia University, McGill University, York University, Dalhousie University and University of Alberta among others. She has led classes on Ancient Greek Tragedy, immersive theatre, text analysis, audition techniques and direction. Most recently, she led a directing workshop in Singapore for Singapore Creations.
Micheline has received a Betty Mitchell Award (Calgary theatre award) for Best Direction, two Capital Critics Awards (Ottawa theatre award) for Best Direction and Best Production, a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Toronto theatre award) for Best Production, as well as three METAs (Montreal Awards) for best direction and production.
Andrew Turner (Director)
Andrew Turner is a contemporary dance artist and choreographer based in Montréal. His works offer a dense but somehow spacious mix of materials and concerns: tightly cornering between deeply-researched movement studies, performance-lecture thought-experiments and absurdist mise-en-scène. A natural storyteller, Andrew casually and approachably builds up the mundane into broader themes of human experience. As physically articulate as he is with words, he brings a martial-arts grounded movement practice into dialogue with refined explorations of sensation: at times soft and visceral, at others raw and explosive, but always delivered with precision and nuance. Each piece offers a constantly shifting lens through which to enter, whether through its candid humour, its thoughtful ponderings on the knowable, or its rich, deftly danced choreographies. These performances become meticulously cadenced thought studies, penetrating and ever-transforming – rendered with the exuberance of a Golden Retriever plunging through thick forest with its new squeaky toy.
Leaving his studies in history and philosophy, and with no prior dance training, Andrew Turner was inexplicably accepted into Concordia University‘s Contemporary Dance Department in 2001. There he discovered a passion for both creation and performance. He has performed, both in Canada and abroad, for such choreographers as Marie-Julie Asselin, Marie Béland, Deborah Dunn, Milan Gervais, André Gingras, Thierry Huard, Sasha Kleinplatz, Ginette Laurin, Lisa Phinney Langley, Paula de Vasconcelos, Pierre-Paul Savoie and others. As a choreographer, Andrew's creations include Duet For One Plus Digressions (2008), Now I Got Worry, (2010), A Standard of Measure, Except Not Really (2015), and 18 P_R_A_C_T_I_C_E_S (2018). His work has been presented in Canada, Europe, the United States and Mexico. He has received awards from the Office Québec-Amériques pour la jeunesse (OQAJ, 2008) and the Office Québec Wallonie-Bruxelles pour la jeunesse (OQWBJ, 2009), and Les Entrées en Scène Loto-Québec (2010). In 2015 he was a recipient of the DanceWEB Europe Scholarship at Impulstanz Vienna. He was an invited choreographer at the Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity (2016), as well as at Théatre Sévellin 36 in Lausanne (2018). He has choreographed commissioned works for ODD (2014) and the School of Dance, (Ottawa, 2016). He is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree in Choreographey at l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
Paul Van Dyck (Director)
A graduate of Queen’s University, Paul is a writer, director, performer, and producer of theatre and film based in Montreal and Toronto. In 2001, Paul founded Rabbit in a Hat Productions with a mandate to produce new Canadian plays. His work has since been produced throughout Canada and around the world. He has received numerous awards for his productions including; The Revelation Award (Montreal English Critics Circle); Outstanding Direction (Montreal English Theatre Awards); Best Production (New York Frigid Festival, Atlantic Fringe, and Montreal Fringe). Paul was a participant of the Shaw Festival’s Directors Project and a National Forum Representative of Quebec for the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
Sean Graney (Director)
Sean Graney would like to thank you for spending your time and money on live performance. He’s the Founder and Artistic Director of The Hypocrites in Chicago and has directed over 100 performances pieces. He was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. He’s a Creative Capital Awardee, and received the Helen Coburn & Tim Meier Award. His directing work has been at American Repertory Theater, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Rep, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Court Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Steppenwolf for Young Audiences, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Alexandru Martalogu (Director)
Alex is a recently graduated student from McGill University, where he completed an M.A. in Ancient History. Among other passions however, Alex also loves theatre and acting, which made his interest and dedication for Previously on the Iliad a no-brainer. In 2017, he co-directed, adapted and translated Plato’s Symposium for the McGill Classics Play and he was also part of the cast for 2016’s production of Hekabe. Alex would like to thank Lynn Kozak for the opportunity to direct one of the most anticipated episodes of the Iliad.
Lucinda Davis (Director)
Lucinda Davis found her way into the profession through a weird twist of fate: timid and with virtually no acting background, she was called by mistake to audition for a leading role in a television series, and got the part. Twenty later, she has amassed an impressive list of credits for stage, television and film and has lent her voice to cartoons and video games. She is also the co-founder of Metachroma Theatre, whose mandate is to produce plays with so diverse performers in order to normalize their presence on Canadian stages.
Julie Tamiko Manning (Director)
Julie Tamiko Manning is an award-winning Montreal actor and theatre creator. Selected acting credits include: Annie in Jean Dit (Théâtre D'Aujourd'hui), Elena in Butcher (Centaur), Isabella Bird in Top Girls (Segal), Titania in A Midsummer Nights’ Dream (Repercussion), Clarence in Richard III (Metachroma) and Nancy in Oliver! (National Arts Centre.
Her first play Mixie and the Halfbreeds (with Adrienne Wong), a play about mixed identity in multiple universes, was recently produced by fuGEN, Toronto’s Asian-Canadian theatre company and is on the list49 Plays by Women of Colour http://the49list.com/
Her second play The Tashme Project: The Living Archives, (with Matt Miwa) is a verbatim one-act about the Japanese Canadian experience around the WW2 internment camps, told through the childhood memories of community elders. It is touring to Toronto and Vancouver in 2019, with a Montreal run at The Centaur this November and is to be published with Playwrights Canada Press next year. She is working on her third play called Mizushobai (commissioned by Tableau D’Hôte Theatre) about Kiyoko Tanaka-Goto, a Japanese picture bride turned business woman in 1930’s British Columbia.
She is currently working with the French company cie IKB creating Identités, a play about the many facets of Québecois identity and is a mentor with Black Theatre Workshop’s Artist Mentorship Program.
Jimmy Blais (Director)
Jimmy is a member of the Muskeg Cree Nation and the Atahkakoop Cree Nation.
Born and raised in Montreal, Jimmy graduated from Concordia’s Theatre Performance Program in 2007.
He has worked professionally in theatre ever since, for some of Montreal’s top companies, including The Centaur, Geordie Producitons and La Licorne. His most recent theatre work was spending the 2017 season at The Stratford Festival where he performed in Romeo and Juliet, Treasure Island and The Breathing Hole. Jimmy is the co-founder of the META nominated theatre company PlayShed. Jimmy also plays the role of Watio on APTN’s hit series Mohawk Girls. He is an acting teacher, mentor and coach. Jimmy is the new Indigenous Artist in Residence at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Out of all this, he is most proud of his new gig, being a dad to a beautiful young daughter named Indigo.
Donovan Reiter (Director)
Born in 1969 to two feckless hippies on Hutchison and Prince Arthur, Donovan Reiter is thrilled to have made it all the way to Bar des Pins to direct Lynn Kozak in The Iliad. As a recent graduate from Dawson College’s Theatre Program (1991) he has had the privilege of working with some of Montreal’s most exciting and innovative talent. Having previously worked together on Lynn’s production of Hippolytus Donovan is pleased to be working with the Greek Goddess again…but this time the tables are turned.
Jen Quinn (Director)
Jen Quinn is a Director, Dramaturge, Curator and Producer who has just started a Graduate Diploma program in Management of Cultural Organizations at HEC Montréal. She holds a BFA from the University of Victoria’s Theatre Department where she studied Directing, Design and Production Management. Hailing from the West Coast, Jen has worked with a number of Victoria based theatre companies, including William Head on Stage, where she taught workshops to inmates of a minimum security prison. Jen has participated in the Director's Lab North and was a part of the Black Theatre Workshop’s Artist Mentorship Ensemble. For four years, Jen was Head Administrator of Freestanding Room, where she founded, curated and produced the ShortStanding Festival of Short Performances. Her direction for Composite Theatre Co.’s I’m Not Here at SummerWorks earned her an Honourable Mention in the Canadian Stage Award for Direction. Jen’s work with Imago Theatre (first as Artsitic and Administrative Assistant in 2016/17, then as Director of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad in Imago’s Her Side of the Story: Revision to Resist series) has played an integral role in Jen’s continued development of an intersectional feminist art practice.
Joseph Shragge (Director)
Joseph Shragge is a Montreal-based playwright and creator who is the co-artistic director of Scapegoat Carnivale and an artistic associate of the Bakery Theatre. His text for Fuck You! You Fucking Perv!, a solo work in collaboration with Leslie Baker, recently won the 2017 META (Montreal English Language award) for Best Independent Production after its run at Theatre de La Licorne, translated by Fanny Britt. Working with director Andreas Apergis and professor Lynn Kozak, he has adapted Euripides’ Medea (winner Mecca Best Production), and The Bacchae (winner Meta Best Production), and recently Sophocles’ Oedipus all of which were performed at the Centaur Theatre’s Brave New Looks initiative. Design for this episode was created by Anthony Kennedy with sound design by Devon Bate.
ANTHONY PAVONI
Stage Manager
Anthony is entering his final semester of Honours Classics at McGill University. Happy Hour Homer combines two of his passions, ancient languages and theatre. He is therefore incredibly grateful for the opportunity to substitute for Alex as stage manager/project assistant for a month. In addition to high school and CEGEP plays, Anthony has performed in two McGill Classics Plays: Plato's Symposium, co-directed by none other than Alex Martalogu himself, and Plautus' Pseudolus.
ALEXANDRU MARTALOGU
Stage Manager and Project Assistant
Alex is a recently graduated student from McGill University, where he completed an M.A. in Ancient History. Among other passions however, Alex also loves theatre and acting, which made his interest and dedication for Previously on the Iliad a no-brainer. In 2017, he co-directed, adapted and translated Plato’s Symposium for the McGill Classics Play and he was also part of the cast for 2016’s production of Hekabe. As the project assistant, Alex also does his own translation for each week’s show, follows along the original Ancient Greek script, and, if he’s lucky, sometimes even features in the performance.