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Emelia Symington Fedy

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Emelia Symington Fedy is an actor, writer, director and radio freelancer. Most recently, Emelia collaborated with Radix Theatre in creating and performing the Jessie award-winning play, Assembly which performed in Montreal, Ottawa’s BC Scene and at Vancouver’s PuSh Festival. Directorial/dramaturgical credits include: Townsville at Magnetic North 2008, 2 Truths + 1 Lie = Proof at HIVE, VOICE/wire: 1, an electronic and new music solo performance with composer Andrea Young and Crude Love by Big Smoke Productions. Emelia has worked with Radix, The Arts Club Theatre, Sunshine Theatre, Green Thumb Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Western Canada Theatre, Theatre Melee and Axis. Emelia is a graduate of Studio 58 and has furthered her training with John Turner (Mump and Smoot) and Karen Hines (Pochsy). Emelia is currently an Associate Artist at Radix Theatre and a regular contributor to CBC Radio.


Anita Rochon

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Photo by Itai Erdal with mask by Melody Anderson from The Caravan Farm Theatre's production of "Horseplay"

Anita works as a director, writer and actor in Vancouver and across the country. She's been involved in the development of more than 25 new works of theatre, ranging from movement-based pieces to verbatim theatre to traditional scripts. With The Chop she's directed KISMET one to one hundred, co-wrote Townsville, a piece written with second-year acting students from Studio 58, performed in 2 Truths + 1 Lie = Proof (HIVE) and directed the second two shows in the Patti Fedy trilogy. She performed in Theatre Replacement's BIOBOXES which has toured to OYR's High Performance Rodeo, the PuSh Festival, BC Scéne, The Theatre Centre and the FTA. In Vancouver she directed for Vancouver Opera, Théâtre la Seizième and most recently a highly acclaimed version of The Winter's Tale at her acting training alma mater, Studio 58. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School Directing program where she directed Cindy...a Perfect Circle by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès and choreographed and directed Now he belongs to the ages (angels).


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