Mentees

Victoria is an award-winning Neurodivergent Mad, Queer, actor, writer and director. She frequently pursues projects that create access for audiences facing isolation, including the Julius Caesar Project, and the Shakespeare-In-Hospitals Program. Most recently, she directed/dramaturged WITCH: A semi-staged reading in the One Night Only Festival and entered development of her play, I, Can Fly through […]

Sivert Das is a biracial, visibly, and invisibly disabled immigrant actor, voiceover artist, writer, musician, comedian, and activist based in Toronto. He’s a University of Victoria’s performance program and Second City Conservatory graduate. He is the first physically disabled person of color to graduate from those programs. He has worked all over Canada as an […]

Veronika Swartz is a deaf actor, burlesque dancer, comedian and writer with over a decade of experience. She has studied various styles of writing with established teachers such as Jen Whalen, Daniela Saioni, Dawn Whitwell and Albert Howell, as well sketch and improv with various instructors at Second City and others. For the stage she […]

Louisa Phung, writer and director for stage and screen, is based on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples known as Vancouver, BC. Shortly after being diagnosed with ADHD at 40 amid the lockdown, her writing career took off to include developing her first stage play with VACT’s MSG lab, completing her first feature-length […]