Kole Durnford is a Métis playwright and actor originally from Stony Plain, Alberta. A graduate from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022, Kole made his professional playwriting debut in 2025 with the premiere of his second play HORSEPLAY at Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre. HORSEPLAY received the Sterling Award for Outstanding Production and received 4 nominations including Outstanding New Play. Kole’s first play, ECHO, has also been produced three times, most recently as part of the 2023 Next Stage Festival. Kole has developed his work at Banff Centre and during two years in the Paprika Festival’s Indigenous Arts Program. Kole creates work that is bold in concept, pathos and liveness. As an actor, Kole is a three time Dora Mavor Award nominee.

For over 40 years, Micheline has had the good fortune of working across Canada and abroad (in both official languages) as director, dramaturge, artistic director and teacher. She is an award-winning director, with 100 productions to her credit. Her work draws from plays aimed at theatre for young audiences, the classical repertoire, translations and adaptations, and from the Québécois and Canadian canon. She has worked as an Associate Artist at several theatres across the country, was the Artistic Director of the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa from 1995 to 2000, and the Artistic and Executive Director of Imago Theatre from 2013 to 2022. She has also taught at several universities across the country in the fields of design, direction, acting and production.

Diana is a Colombian theatre designer, plastic artist, interior designer and an eternal child. She has worked for over 30 years in design and the arts. In 2005, Diana moved to Canada and found a second home; she graduated in 2011 from the Theatre Design program at The National Theater School of Canada. Diana is interested in the way that theatre reaches people, in the world of possibilities, dreams and change that are inherent to theatre practice. Her passion for space and its relationship to humans, and how this affects the body and mind, have inspired her work, creating spaces and costumes that evoke a metaphor of our environment. As an artist and a human, she is aware of the imprint that we leave and the importance to engage in the exploration of ecological materials and renewed theatrical practices.