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Amanda Sum is a performer and creator dancing between music and theatre. Amanda is Theatre Replacement's current COLLIDER Artist in Residence, developing her “pop-up book performance”, New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert. A full production of this piece was presented at PushOFF 2023. Recent theatre projects include do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata (The Cultch), 3 seasons of the East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement), and Chicken Girl (rice&beans). The Permanent Rain Press describes Amanda’s “quirky indie pop” as the “perfect amount of wit and tact”. Her debut full-length album, New Age Attitudes, was released in September 2022. Amanda’s music has brought her to be featured in the Vancouver Sun, booooooom.com, Fluevog and Vancouver Magazine. Amanda directed and choreographed a dance short film, Wide Stance Dance, for the Festival of Recorded Movement, and has lent a choreographic eye to her debut music video, Groupthink (2020, directed by Mayumi Yoshida), as well as the first music video off her album, Different Than Before, which stars Hollywood’s Tzi Ma.

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CO-CREATOR (LITTLE SHRIMP), VOICE ACTOR

Natalie Tin Yin Gan (顏婷妍) is an independent choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and writer working on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples. Her practice squats at the intersections of food, feminisms, race, voice, and body. She has presented, performed, and spoken in Seattle, Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, and across Canada. Natalie is the Co-Artistic Director of company Hong Kong Exile that explores the historical and contemporary politic of the Chinese diaspora. She is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio and completing her teacher certification in Fitzmaurice Voicework®. Natalie is a late sleeper, a late riser, a late bloomer, a latecomer, and a late-night snacker. She publishes under a pseudonym and is currently writing for indie video game company Sunset Visitor Studios.

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CO-CREATOR (LEGEND OF THE WHOOSHHH), COMPOSER, VOICE ACTOR

Returning to Vancouver after seven years in Toronto, Kristin Fung’s ferocious, tender, and captivating voice as a lead singer, keyboardist, composer, and improviser traverse musical landscapes of “soulful grace [and] jazzy joy” (From The Intercom), and funky R&B. Her deeply earnest and uplifting originals evoke the sounds of self-accompanying piano queens Alicia Keys and Patrice Rushen, showing off her powerhouse lungs and groovy piano chops.

"Transcontinental Crush" (2021) is Fung's latest single available on all streaming platforms.

A soulful innovator, Fung is the creator of the outdoor live music and chocolate series, Funk N’ Mink which was one of five selected recipients of DowntownVan’s Public Space Vibrancy program (2021). Other performances include the Vancouver International Dance Festival (tiger princess dance projects, 2022), Vancouver International Jazz Festival (2021), Markham Jazz Festival (2019), and Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Vocal Ensemble (New York, 2014-2019).

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Ira makes sound. :)

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Wen Wen (Cherry) Lu is a multimedia artist interested in exploring the hidden, the small, and the forgotten through installation, illustration, and animation. Taking inspiration from her family history, she seeks to combine it with the present experiences of culture, nature, and community to create something that questions. Her work has been installed in spaces such as parks, bus stops, walkways, and hidden in nooks and crannies. They have also been shown in more traditional spaces such as the International Arts Gallery, Centre A, New Westminster Museum and Gallery, Access Gallery, and Burnaby Art Gallery. She is a graduate of Emily Carr University with a bachelor’s in visual arts and a visual arts instructor at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

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Charlie Cooper is a musician and media artist whose work centers on hybridized field recording practices that incorporate sound, visual and textual elements. His site-based work takes the form of musical compositions, performances, and installations. He is an active cross-disciplinary collaborator, regularly working with dance, theatre, sound and digital media artists.

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(She/They/Any): Katrina Teitz is is a performer based in Vancouver, BC. She has a diploma in Musical Theatre from Capilano University and you can catch her in musicals all over the city. She is also an aspiring stunt woman with a black belt in karate and training in flips, tricking and weapons. Find her everywhere @katrinateitz

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Conor is a goofball first, artist second. He makes theatre, films, video games, banana pancakes, and is really good at catching snacks in his mouth.

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Aidan Chan is a multifaceted performing artist from Vancouver, BC. Through film, music, and theatre, Aidan hopes to bring people closer to their inner nature and most enjoys expressing his art through as many disciplines and outlets as possible. His personal work includes making documentary film, recently having worked with the @reelasian Film Festival, producing his first short Homewater.

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Anjela is a first generation Canadian originating from the Philippines and graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Theatre Performance. She has worked internationally as a performer and collaborator in Hong Kong and across the UK. Recent credits include Walking at Night By Myself (A Wake of Vultures) The Wolves (Withaspoon Theatre and Pacific Theatre) Foreign Radical (Theatre Conspiracy), 12 Minute Madness (rEvolver Festival), Mis Papás (Rice&Beans Theatre) and Harvey (Western Gold Theatre). Anjela works freelance as an actor, director, clown, teacher and collaborator with various artists of different disciplines. Anjela is a Co-Founder of New(to)Town Collective and formally the Associate Producing Artistic Director of Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre. She is currently honing her leadership skills, specializing as a Cultural Consultant in multilingual Filipinx plays. Anjela lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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Emily M Cheung is a versatile professional singer who spent six years living abroad in Europe, and has performed in concerts/staged works worldwide, from South Africa to Venezuela to Malaysia. Highlights include being a featured soloist in a private concert for the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and the World Stage Premiere of Otto M. Zykan’s Staatsoperette at the Bregenzer Festspiele in Austria.

Passionate about connecting through music, she currently sings with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vancouver Cantata Singers, and with her international group, Time Ensemble, working globally with children/communities in need. Being spotlighted in the 2019 Volvo SUV Aria campaign also sparked an interest in recording, evolving to eclectic performances with CircusWest, the eatART Foundation’s Daisy (the world’s largest solar powered tricycle), and in Songs for a Lost Pod, a multi-disciplinary show combining scientific research, orca vocalizations and the impacts of intergenerational trauma on families.

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Anthony Lee (he/him) is an emerging writer, director, interdisciplinary artist working in theatre and film on the unceded territories colonially known as Vancouver. His work focuses on challenging existing boundaries between cinema and live-performance. As a Hong Konger, his works investigate the impacts of colonialism and totalitarianism. Anthony’s work has been presented across Canada. Anthony received his BFA in Film Production from Simon Fraser University and is currently an artistic associate at Radix Theatre. GFHG SDGM

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Daniel O’Shea makes theatre, designs projections, and creates films, using technology and design as a keystone to support narrative and deepen dramaturgy. In PKD Workshow (2013) and Are we not drawn onward to new era (2018), Daniel employs a low-fi DYI aesthetic, exposing the guts of the performance machinery while convoluting the idea of spectating. In 2020 he completed his first feature length film collaboration centred around pre-extradition bill Hong Kong. His work focuses on states of presence, unbalancing audienceship and novel constructions of light through design and new media. Daniel’s artistic research has explored the ephemeral nature of a ‘self’, interruptions of technology on human processes, and the results cognitive dissonance.

Daniel’s work has been seen in Canada and internationally. He is a founding member of A Wake of Vultures. Daniel is engaged with Vancouver’s thriving contemporary performance scene and often engages in crossover with indie film and the digital arts.

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Milton Lim (he/him) is a digital media artist, game designer, and performance creator based in Vancouver, Canada: the traditional, unceded, and occupied territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

His research-based practice entwines publicly available data, interactive digital media, and gameful performance to create speculative visions and candid articulations of social capital. This line of inquiry aims to reconsider our repertoires of knowledge aggregation and political intervention in the contemporary context of big data and algorithmic culture. Often cheeky and audience/participant driven, his work challenges standard performance traditions including duration, linearity, and repeatability. Milton holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University.

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Hailing from Treaty 7 Territory, Heidi first auditioned for “Crocodile” in her junior high production of Peter Pan and is thrilled to have somehow ended up here! Select theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard on the Beach), Little Women (Theatre Calgary), Mustard (The Arts Club/Belfry Theatre) and New Canadian Kid (Green Thumb Theatre). She is a graduate of UBC Theatre, a Fight Directors’ Canada Intermediate Actor-Combatant, a Wesbrook scholar, and a recipient of the Stephen Woodhouse Memorial Prize.

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Amy Amantea is a white settler on the stolen lands of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-waututh Frst Peoples, colonially known as Vancouver, B.C. Living with blindness and neurodivergence, Amy aims to increase representation of disability within the Canadian theatre landscape. Her background is in acting, having attended Vancouver Film School and private acting academies before her sight loss. Amy has had to reinvent herself as a performer and integrate access, advocacy and activism into her work.

Amy also works as a consultant around access in the arts, exploring both traditional access conventions through service providers as well as creative access provided directly from artists and immersed in the work.

Born in Hong Kong, Stephanie Wong (she/they) is a multidisciplinary creator whose art is an invocation to imagination. A graduate of Studio 58's Acting Program, and the Associate Artistic Director of re:Naissance Opera, their practice is rooted in equity and collective care, and includes directing, dramaturgy, new work creation, performance, and design. By honoring the intersections of her professional and personal experience, Stephanie's work amplifies stories of culture, connection, and coexistence.

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Angela Chu (she/her) is a second-generation Chinese Canadian actor originally from Calgary. She moved to Vancouver in 2016 to pursue her passion for the arts, and since had the opportunity to showcase her talents in many great productions in theatre, film, and music. She has worked with Touchstone Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Neworld Theatre, Carousel Theatre for Young People, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Vancouver Fringe, and Muskrat Pass Productions, starring in two of their short films. Angela is a graduate of Studio 58.

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Born and raised in Hong Kong, the Mid-Autumn Festival has forever held a special place in Harmony's heart. There's an undeniable enchantment in the air during this time of year that fills her with joy. But what truly stirs her soul is the delectable delight of mooncakes, especially the snowy mooncakes. In years past, Mid-Autumn Festival meant coming together with her cousins; they would gather in her grandmother's kitchen crafting her recipe of sweet dumplings. Oh, how she misses those precious moments.

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Pedro was born and raised on treaty 8 territory, colonially known as Chetwynd, BC and now creates on the unceded and traditional lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He received his BFA in Theatre Performance from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. He then went on to form rice & beans theatre with Derek Chan for which he is currently the artistic director. Pedro is a director, playwright, performer & co-founder beans theatre. He was the Artistic Resident at Neworld Theatre in 2014, guest curator of the 2018 rEvolver Festival and one of the playwrights in the 2019 Playwright’s Lab at the Banff Centre. Pedro was part of the second cohort of Banff's Arts and Culture Leadership, is a co-founder of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition, sits on the Latinx Theatre Commons steering committee and was part of Director's Lab North in 2020. He was also awarded the young alumni excellence award in 2021, along with Derek Chan, for their work with rice & beans theatre from Simon Fraser University's FCAT department. In 2023 Pedro was a nominee for the BC multicultural and anti-racist “Breaking Boundaries” award for which he is grateful to be recognized for the work he has done both personally and at rice & beans.

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Cindy is an actor/musician, Paddle Canada certified kayaker, and plant-based, just like her character, Brad the Bear! She is incredibly excited to bring big ol’ Brad to life. :)

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Kayleigh Sandomirsky is a stage/production manager, producer, curator and performer on the stolen territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). Kayleigh is the former Producer/Project Manager for Chimerik 似不像, as well as the Stage Manager for another rendition of The Array produced by UpintheAir Theatre. Kayleigh recently finished a month long tour of New Societies by Brian Postalian; as well as Stage Managed BLUSCRN by FakeKnot, presented at the Luna Festival; and 003_playback by Caroline MacCaull, presented by New Works. She also recently Production/Stage Managed Dancing to Remember by Aeriosa Dance and Butterflies in Spirit, Departure by Marissa Wong, Kwê by Jeanette Kotowich and collective; Revelations by UpintheAir Theatre, Ying Yun with Wen Wei Dance, and HIVE 2021: Flight Paths by the HIVE Collective.

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Raugi (he/him) is originally from Montreal and has now lived longer in Vancouver than his hometown. He is so excited to be part of the Five Blessings family and wishes you all lots of love and light.

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Tiana is a professional musical theatre, voiceover, and film/TV actor with her BFA in Drama/Music Theatre from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has voice acted for AdultSwim, Corus Entertainment, YouTube, PBS Kids Sprout, and TVOKids.

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A triple-threat performer, Nhi has worked on a variety of projects such as: Watchmen (WB); NarcoLeap (Canadian Screen Award-nominated, Leo Award-winning); and Upstairs Amy (Shaftesbury). On stage, she was a lead in the Jessie Richardson Award-nominated Canadian premiere of Heathers: The Musical. Currently, Nhi starred in and had her producing debut with the horror thriller short, The Sorrow, which world premiered at the 2023 Vancouver Asian Film Festival and on the mic, she is voicing the lead playable character in the new sci-fi video game, 1000xRESIST (Q1 2024 release on Steam, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch).

Recent projects include: Door Mouse (Elevation Pictures); Grendel (Netflix); Maid (Netflix); LEGO Friends: Heartlake Stories (Netflix); High End Dying (Crazy8s); Spread (Tubi); Hope Street Pods: A Classical Christmas Chord (Apple Podcasts); and Sight Unseen (CW).

Nhi is an STC graduate of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Victoria. In addition to acting, Nhi is a mentor with the UBCP/ACTRA BIPOC Mentorship program, an acting coach, and the official in-arena host for the Vancouver Warriors.

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Debi Wong is an interdisciplinary artist and producer who specializes in creating hybrid experiences and XR content. Her work bridges the gap between the performing arts and emerging technologies all in the name of innovating the future of storytelling.

Wong is the founding Artistic Director of re:Naissance Opera, the indie opera company based in Vancouver that has become a cornerstone of new opera production in Canada’s West Coast, and set a precedent for opera as a vehicle for innovation. Her ambitious project, OrpheusVR, fuses a reimagination of the 1607 opera, L’Orfeo with an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure, virtual reality game; the groundbreaking work was featured at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival’s Immersive Exhibition. With the OrpheusVR team, Wong went on to co-create Eurydice: Live From The Underworld a realtime, livestream performance that uses operatic performers to bring digital avatars to life in virtual worlds. In 2022, Live From The Underworld was the first project to ever win two awards for creativity and innovation at AUREA XR, the leading European award in immersive entertainment.

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Elaine is Robyn’s mom and helped us out by lending her voice. Isn’t she great?