TEAM WINNIPEG

 

Daniel Thau-Eleff (Residency Leader)

Daniel Thau-Eleff is a Winnipeg-based playwright, performer, director, workshop leader and artistic producer of the Moving Target Theatre Company, as well as Manitoba Association of Playwrights’ Program Co-Ordinator.

He describes his plays as “personal-political,” meaning they explore an issue, usually related to human rights or social justice, through individual characters' struggles, mixing documentary and autobiographical elements into fiction.

Daniel has performed his solo-shows across Canada, including at SummerWorks (Toronto), Impact (Kitchener-Waterloo) and Prismatic (Halifax). He has led over 30 issue-based Theatre for Living workshops. He is also a long-time member of Independent Jewish Voices-Canada.

In 2018, Daniel was recognized for his theatre work with the Manitoba Human Rights Commitment Award.

For more, see MovingTargetTheatre.com.

Julie Epp (Local Documentarian)

Julie Epp is an award-winning queer filmmaker and graphic designer. After completing the Basic Filmmaking Course at Winnipeg Film Group in 2016, Julie co-wrote and directed the short film Contents of the Heart, which won Best Film in the 48 Hour Film Contest at Gimli Film Festival. The film went on to have numerous screenings and win awards in festivals across Canada, including a humanitarian award. In 2017, she directed the 48 Hour Film As We Are, which won Best Film, Best Director and Best Cinematographer. She has worked on many other video projects including short films, a documentary feature film in Rwanda (in progress), training videos, community/social interest pieces, music videos (official and live concert), corporate, architecture and real estate. She is actively involved in the Winnipeg Film community and has served as a jury member for Winnipeg Film Group and the Gimli Film Festival.

Julie has been a long time supporter of the arts and music community in Winnipeg, has hosted house concerts for many years, and has worked on video projects for Virtuosi Concerts, the Women’s Musical Club, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Interstellar Rodeo, the West End Cultural Centre, and the Manitoba Association of Playwrights.

Eusebio Lopez-Aguilar (Technical Support -Video Pool)

Eusebio Lopez-Aguilar is a multi-disciplinary Latinx artist and tech director based in Winnipeg, MB. Having traveled the world in his younger youth, he now spends his time playing board games with his family, building electronic kits of audio gear, helping other folks realize their artistic visions in a wild world, and trying to dismantle the ableist white-supremist patriarchy strangling innovation in the arts.

Patrick Peachey Higdon (Digital Platform Manager / Gather.town Designer)

Patrick Peachey Higdon is a professional Maker. He is a graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada’s scenography program and The Banff Centre’s theater props practicum. He has worked as a Prop builder for the Stratford Festival; An Assistant to the production designer on Lionsgate Films Chaos Walking; A puppet builder for both Monlove Production’s Scooby Doo, and Montreal Biodome’s Project Migration; As an object and puzzle designer for McCord Museum’s Treasures in the Attic; As a digital artist and technologist on the Level UP conference and the Digital Dramaturgy Initiative; And as an escape room builder for Escaparium’s Wardrobe for Sale.

Andy Rudolph (Technical Support - Video Pool)

Brian Drader (Artistic Director)

Brian Drader is a writer, dramaturg, actor, teacher, and artistic administrator. Awards for his plays include the prestigious Lambda Literary Award for Drama (USA), and nominations for the Governor General’s Award and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year. His plays have been produced in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Published work includes The Norbals, Prok and Liar (Scirocco Drama), and Cursty and To Be Frank (Signature Editions). In his 40 year career as an educator and professional dramaturg, he has supported hundreds of projects, from Fringe plays to Cirque du Soleil’s MJ ONE in Las Vegas to the revamp of the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa. Brian served as the Director of Playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal from 2004 to 2017, and is now the Executive Director of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights.

Emma Hendrix (Director - Video Pool)

Emma is a sound and installation artist, sound designer, composer and cultural worker. As an artist, composer and sound designer for the performing arts, Emma explores nonlinear sonic narratives through the use and manipulation of field recordings, found sounds and ‘machine languages’ of everyday things. As part of Manufacturing Entertainment (www.manufacturingentertainment.com) Emma creates installations and performs with Julie Gendron and together they build community digital art projects.

As a cultural worker, Emma has nearly twenty years of experience facilitating media and technology-based arts as a technical director and executive director. Emma is currently the Executive Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

https://www.emmahendrix.com/

Winnipeg projects:

  • A virtual, interactive experience that that tells the story of a queer couple trying to escape a cult masquerading as a progressive self-help group with radical left ideals.

    Cult Play

  • A performance for one audience member, a mortal who stumbles into the workshop of Janus, the two-headed goddess of doorways and openings. To scare or lure the mortal away, Janus conjures up humanity’s past primal fears, and future aspirational hopes.

    In Time

  • Two strange lovers navigating new challenges and finding connection while adapting to an unfamiliar environment. An experimental and structured improv piece with clown-based style and form.

    Home

  • A mysterious supernatural event causes every single Filipino person in the entire world to one day suddenly vanish. The story chronicles the short and long-term consequences of the disappearance of this crucial globalized workforce. A story told through live, and virtual reality performance.

    Everything Has Disappeared