About the Gallery Artists

Sodienye Waboso Amajor (Dee) is a Dora Nominated, multidisciplinary, Nigerian/Canadian artiste and educator who lives and works in Ontario. Dienye has played roles such as Puck in Shakespeare in Action’s adaptation of   “ A Midsummer Nights Dream”, Memory in Theatre Directs “Binti’s Journey”*,  Gigi in New Harlem’s production, “Gas girls”*, Beka in Volcano Theatre’s Africa Trilogy “ Shine your Eye”* Luminato, June 2010  reprising her role as Beka in a Canstage/ Volcano theatre’s production of “Another Africa” Canstage 2011  and Harriet Tubman in “The Power Of Harriet T” YPT 2013. Sodienye is a mother of two boys and an avid believer in learning through creativity and an advocate for the importance of Early years education through an exposure to the arts and Theatre. She is currently pursuing her MA in Theatre and Performance studies at York University and can be seen next in Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka at the Stratford Festival/ 2022 season. 

Lindsay Anne Black ( composer) used to make colours and shapes but those tried to kill her so now she stays home and writes words and makes sounds.

Graham Connell, He/Him. Raised in Ottawa, Ontario Graham was interested in drawing and artwork from an early age. Beginning with traditional materials, and eventually exploring artwork with a computer he focused on working with the new possibilities of digital production. from 2017-2021 he studied New Media and Sound Arts at Emily Carr University exploring a range of media including multichannel sound systems, interactive digital media, and digital fabrication techniques to create work that expresses our connection with each other and ourselves.

My name is Tania D’Amico. I am an artist who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I am an actor, singer, musician, dancer, visual artist, and all around performer. However, I am also a prop master, set designer, stagehand, costume designer, dreamer, believer, makeup specialist, writer, director, athlete, intellectual, hard worker, activist, playwright, poet and I play any other role when it comes to the arts both performance and literary. I believe that anything is possible so I’m just trying to find my place.

Valerie Free (she/her) has published poetry in print and digitally in journals such as CV2, Canadian Woman Studies, Hysteria, and Lunate. Her fiction received an Honourable Mention in a CBC Québec Writers’ Federation contest and was published in Short Stuff: New English Stories from Québec (Véhicule Press). She lives in Montréal.

Stephanie Fung is an interdisciplinary artist and arts worker from Tkaronto/Toronto who is fascinated by the concept of convention and how we contest culture. They are leading a team of emerging theatre critics as the Editor of the Kingston Theatre Alliance and co-facilitator of the Toronto Fringe Festival's New Young Reviewers program. Recent artistic credits include: Write From the Hip (Nightwood Theatre); The Makers & Shakers Society (Radioland Media); Collider (Single Thread Theatre Company); The Intangible Queer (YIKES a Theatre Company); In This World (Theatre Count); paper SERIES (5th Company Lane); and Concord Floral (Theatre Kingston).

Rebecca Lacroix (Langevin) is a queer French-Canadian, Toronto-based illustrator. A designer by trade, Rebecca uses digital linework, watercolour and brushwork to depict figures and identities often overlooked in our society. Supplanting the traditional male gaze of the art world, Rebecca’s work focuses on capturing these overlooked women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, documenting them through a uniquely queer and female gaze.

Riley Ough (they/she) is a queer creator with a background in theatre. Growing up Riley studied musical theatre until attending Randolph College for the Performing Arts where they found a love for physical creation and devising. Riley now devises interdisciplinary theatre within an emerging collective and dramaturges her colleagues' plays in progress. Outside of theatre, Riley has always loved reading, especially classics and fiction. As a queer person with a love for classic novels, they often experience cognitive dissonance in the importance of their own identity and the content of these stories. They began using blackout poetry as a means of reclaiming and reconstructing these themes that cause such internal turmoil. Riley is honoured to be sharing their poetry with an audience for the first time to imagine a liberated future!

Columbia Roy is an emerging theatre artist and thinker from Taipei, Taiwan currently discovering life in Tkaronto, who is captivated by the constraints and liberties of the human condition and our co-creation of meaning. She has a passion for comedic exploration and strives to create work that stays with the trouble, without drowning in it. Recently her work includes a conspicuous (though unsuspicious) 2 year resume gap as she tries to stay alive, multidisciplinary involvement with Queen’s Players triannual charity shows, Cristina the Girl King [5th Company Lane], and Concord Floral [Theatre Kingston].

Emily Schooley (she/her) is an award-winning actor, voiceover artist, emerging filmmaker, and badass creative changemaker working to build a kinder and more inclusive world. She is the founder of Laughing Cat Productions. You can help support Emily in her quest to smash the patriarchy by joining her community over on Patreon. 

DM St. Bernard aka Belladonna the Blest (vocalist) moves words, sometimes right out of her face.  She thinks this is helping, somehow. 

Carla Stein’s (she/her) poetry and images have appeared in a wide variety of publications some of which are Sustenance, Friday's Poems, Stonecoast Review, Sad Girl Review, Pocket Lint, Please Hear What I’m Not Saying, Lemonspouting, The Belladonna, Polar Starlight, and forthcoming in, Penumbric, and Centipede-Cha-Cha . She has released two poetry chapbooks, Sideways Glances of an Everyday Sailor and Shrieking from the Shore. Carla is artistic director of Wordstorm Society of the Arts, based in Nanaimo, B.C. 

Kaeley Jade Wiebe (she/her) is a Métis actor, singer/songwriter and multidisciplinary artist based out of Amiskwaciwâskahikan/Edmonton. Select theatre: Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., Chrysothemis (Studio Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare by the Bow), and the upcoming world premiere of Two-Headed/Half-Hearted (Northern Light Theatre). As a folk-pop artist under the name “Kaeley Jade,” her music has received radio play across North America, has been added to major playlists across streaming giants, and has been placed in several film and television productions. Across her disciplines, Kaeley is most interested in exploring the power that relationships can have. Learn more on her website here.