Discipline: theatre

Gabe Maharjan is a Montreal-based actor and creator. They first caught the performance bug in their Elementary school drama class. As a child, Gabe did workshops at The Black Theatre Workshop and the MSOPA and developed a love for play and storytelling. 

Gabe is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Quebec Drama Federation. They recently completed The Black Theatre Workshop’s Artist Mentorship Program in the actor’s stream. They participated in Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal’s Young Creators Unit, where they started writing called Eva in Rio, a new play they are developing. Gabe graduated from the Dome in 2017.

A selection of Gabe’s performance credits include Haemon in Raise the Stakes’ Antigone, Eddie in The Last Wife as part of Imago’s “Her Side” festival,  and Tripp in Sermo Scomber’s Don’t Read the Comments—which won the Franky Award for Most Promising English Company for the 2018 Montreal Fringe. Gabe voices Hayao in Epsilon Games’ Primus Vita. They made their directorial debut last year, when they produced Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries (Playground Productions).

Kyungseo Min is a Korean-Canadian playwright and performer currently based in Montreal. After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre at the University of Southern California, she pursued her passion for physical theatre and Japanese traditional theatre by training in Body Weather Laboratory in Venice and Nihonbuyo with the Kyoto Arts Centre. As a writer and Third Culture Kid, her goal is to create a distinctive style of theatre blending Western and Eastern philosophies, weaving text, movement, and symbolism into a cohesive whole. She strives to tell stories that break linear structure and find drama not only in action and dialogue, but also in stasis. She dares to write plays that remove the audience from reality and transport them into a metaphysical realm where a single gesture can slow down their heartbeat and a symbol can make them stop in their seats and feel what is underneath the banalities of the everyday.

Ligia Borges is a director, actor, teacher, and researcher as well as co-founder of the Brazilian collective Teatro da Travessia, with which she has been involved as an actor, assistant director, and/or dramaturge since 2006. Universal subjects, such as family relationships, love, sickness, and the obstacles of daily living are recurrent themes in her work. Fragments d’Ana, Borges’ current theatre project, is centred on the social effects of Alzheimer’s disease. In addition to bridging the worlds of storytelling and theatre, Fragments d’Ana adopts a dramaturgical approach that integrates the stories of people living with Alzheimers and those of their caregivers. Fragments d’Ana is conceived for a non-conventional venue and will emphasize the encounter between the public and actors.

Katey Wattam is a recent graduate of McGill University’s Drama and Theatre program and has worked on over 20 theatrical productions and films. An interdisciplinary artist of mixed settler and Anishinaabe ancestry, Wattam approaches theatre as a way of mining her and other bodies for their “blood memory,” uncovering experiences and traumas (past and present) for the purpose of reclaiming and decolonizing bodies, minds, and spaces. In 2017-2018 Wattam prepared a staging of Quebecois queer indigenous self-taught artist, creator and writer Jovette Marchessault’s one-woman show, Night Cows. Deep, lyrical, sensuous, fabulous – Marchessault’s voice becomes, in Wattam’s hands, an ecstatic force, one that turns conventional images of women inside out and opens onto a feminist vision of the future.