Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En (张欣恩) is a Chinese Singaporean settler in Mohkinstsis, on Treaty 7 territory. She practices as a playwright, performer, director, arts administrator, and producer, and currently works with Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre in multiple capacities. Much of Kris’s artistic explorations land at the intersections of food, identity, and in-betweenness. She deeply values working in kind, care-centred, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive ways, and is committed to prioritizing these values as she creates art and lifts up her communities.

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Jenna Rodgers (she/her) is a mixed-race, Treaty 7–based director and dramaturg. She is Artistic Director of Concrete Theatre, Founding Artistic Director of Chromatic Theatre, and served as Dramaturg for the Playwrights Lab at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity for over ten years. Jenna is Board Co-Chair of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and Director of Theatre Alberta’s Artstrek Program. She is a passionate advocate for equity in the arts, a fierce supporter of new play development, and is learning to raise small responsible humans while maintaining a career in the arts.

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