Marcel Stewart is a father, a Dora-Award-winning actor, and he loves smoked gouda. He is Artistic Director of b current Performing Arts. As an actor Marcel has worked with Soulpepper, Factory Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Obsidian Theatre, Suitcase in Point, the Theatre Centre, the Blyth Festival, Festival Players, Studio 180, the Grand Theatre, Persephone, Theatre Direct, Carousel Players, and Atlas Stage. When Marcel is not creating, he is an arts educator who has facilitated programming and instructed courses to community youth groups, professional actors, and students in university, high school, and elementary school. Marcel’s curiosity about history and lineage—beyond the context of colonialism—is at the basis of his work.

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Chance Mutuku is a Creative/Entrepreneur. He is founder and Creative Director at BBBBlanc* Studio, a design and branding company based in St.Catharines Ontario. BBBBlanc* Studio helps brands and collaborators alike to turn their ideas into actual things and to help market them both as digital and/or  physical experiences. Aside from design, Chance is also a DJ , where he is able to blend multi-genre musical experiences. Beyond these creative endeavors, Chance also contributes to his community through creative workshops and public speaking engagements. Through these activities, Chance uses his story and experiences as a creative to encourage creative youths to use their skills to create positive impact in the world.

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Deanna Jones (she/her) is co-founder and Artistic Director of Suitcase in Point, with whom she has created and performed in over fifteen original plays, including Barrel Crank, the Dora Mavor Moore Award–nominated Keith Richards One Woman Show and Be Wearing Wolf. Other selected acting credits include Silly Old Men Ought Not to Fall in Love (Theatre Beyond Words), Bluenose (Carousel Players), and Trout Stanley (Essential Collective Theatre). She is part of FIXT Point’s ensemble for the Tale of a Town Canada, directed Niagara Artists Centre’s STRUTT Wearable Art Runway Show (2011–2014), and is Artistic Director of In the Soil Arts Festival. Deanna has a B.A. in Theatre from Brock University, and has trained with One Yellow Rabbit, Philippe Gaulier, Upright Citizen’s Brigade, and SITI Company. Deanna is currently working on a new show about the history of smoking cigarettes, des antécédents de tabagisme.

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