IndieFest Artist Credits

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IndieFest 2023 Artists & Creative

IndieFest 2023 Team

Debi Wong, Founding Artistic Director, Co-Curator, Producer
Stephanie Wong, Associate Artistic Director, Co-Curator, Producer
Katherine Yacht, Executive Director, Finance & Personnel
Kristina Lao, Social Innovation & Community, Producer
Heather Lamb, Production Manager
Zain Khudhur, Technical Director
Rebecca Smit, Marketing Manager & Design
Jordy Matheson, Front of House/Site Manager
Alayna Y, Marketing Assistant
Alex Chen, Production Assistant
Pedro Augusto Meza, Photography & Videography
Sally Zori, Photography & Videography

Sanctuary & Storm

Mireille Asselin, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Soprano)
Dashon Burton, Angel of History (Baritone)
Marion Newman, Hildegard of Bingen (Mezzo Soprano)

Tawnie Olson, Composer
Roberta Barker, Librettist
Arianne Abela, Conductor
Perri Lo, Assistant Music Director
Sheree Spencer, Stage Director
Mily Mumford, Projection Designer
Will Selviz, Creative Consultant
Shannon Tauber, Costume Designer
Nicole Lamb, Lighting Designer
Rachel E. Ross, Stage Manager
Stephanie Wong, Co-Producer
Debi Wong, Artistic Director, Creator

Jae-Won Bang, Concertmaster/Violin 1
Rebecca Ruthven, Violin 2
Tawnya Popoff, Viola
Minjee Yoon, Cello
Tina Chang, Piano
Mark Haney, Double Bass
Michelle Goddard, Clarinet
Robin Reid, Percussionist

IndieArtist Cabaret

Andrew Creightney, Host
Forrest Mortifee with Madeleine Elkins, Channel Like Water
Rachel Ruecker, tragedy plus time
June Fukumura, Davey Calderon, Natalie Gan, Gloria Fukomachi’s Keynote Address
Marco Esccer, Carla Alcántara, Carolina Silva, Agridulce (Bittersweet)
Kristin Fung and D’arcy Han, No Sweet Carolines
Taryn Plater, Roan Shankaruk, Perri Lo, U-29
Mermaid Li, Katria Phothong-Mckinnon, and Shelby Tan, The Light?
Elsa Orme, Stage Manager

Prairie Dusk

Jessica McMann, Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute
Holly Bhattacharya, Viola
Jonathon Adams, Vocalist
Perri Lo, Piano
Juanita Desjarlais, Dancer
Rebecca Smit, Projections
Heather Lamb, Stage Manager

The Liminal

Stephanie Wong, Creator, Curator
Cease Wyss, Welcome
Kaili Che and Miguel Maravilla, Future of Inevitability and Surrender
Adonis Critter King, Future of Deities
Derek Chan, Future of Divination
Maiden China, Future of Feminism
Ariane Custodio, Future of the Mundane
Dushun Wilson, Future of Growth
Tonye Aganaba, The Present
Christian Ching, Lighting Design, Set Design
Zain Khudhur, Stage Manager
Jasmin Sandhu, Kevin McCarthy, Angelica Schwartz, Experiential Facilitators

Resurrectio: Act I

Morgan-Paige, Creator, Music, Visuals

Future Mythologies

Eurydice Fragments:

Debi Wong, Dramaturg / Creator
Benton Roark, Composer
Luke Hathaway, Librettist
Omari Newton, Librettist
Brian Topp, Music Director
Bob Kreut, 3D Artist / Unreal Developer
Conrad Sly, 3D Artist, Concepts
Teiya Kasahara, Singer / Creative Consultant
Alexis Fletcher, Motion Capture Dancer
Andrea Wong, Instrumentalist
Asitha Tenekoon, Singer
Alyssa Samson, Singer
Brandon Thornhill, Singer
Elsa Orme, Stage Manager

CHINATOWN

Madeleine Thien, Librettist
Paul Yee, Translator
Alice Ping Yee Ho, Composer
Marjorie Chan, Dramaturg
Hiro Kanagawa, Performer
Agnes Tong, Performer
April Leung, Performer
Derek Chan, Performer
Valerie Sing Turner, Performer
Luka Kawabata, Performer, Singer
Julia Lank, Stage Manager

Inferno: A Hip Hop Opera

Omari Newton, Co-Writer
Amy Lee Lavoie, Co-Writer
Anju Singh, Instrumentalist, Composer
Leo D.E. Johnson, Mo
Kim Villagante (Kimmortal), Vye
Teiya Kasahara, Bae
Brandon Thornhill, Finance Bro
Scribbly Doodle, Beatboxer
Debi Wong, Draumaturg

168 Magazine

Youth Editors: Jolie Zhou, Felicia Jiang, Carol Wang, Madelyn Yu, Sofia Lau
Blake Abbie, Advising Editor, Artist
April Liu, Chinatown Storytelling Centre, Project Facilitator
Stephanie Wong, Project Facilitator

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