Born and raised in the Philippines, Bianca Miranda is a queer Filipino performer, playwright, and producer, grateful to be living and working in Moh’kins’tsis, Treaty 7 Territory. She is Artistic Producer at Downstage “theatre that creates conversations around social issues.” As a theatre-maker and playwright, their works most often start from a personal place and examine the intersections of her identities, born out of the necessity to tell under-represented stories. She is the writer of Kisapmata, winner of the 2023/2024 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play, and the co-creator and performer of The F Word, a show that blends song, dance, sketch comedy, storytelling, and more to explore self-acceptance, fat liberation, and the intersection of fatness and race. As an actor and performer, they’ve worked with theatre companies across Treaty 7, such as Theatre Calgary, Handsome Alice Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, Shakespeare Company, and more. Bianca believes in the transformative power of theatre and storytelling.