DIANA BANG is an actor/creator based in Vancouver on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh territories. She got her start in performance and writing by doing sketch comedy with Pan Asian-Canadian sketch comedy group, Assaulted Fish, and subsequently The Lady Show, where “they put the JOY in feminist killjoy”.

Diana has performed solo shows “Self-ish” and “Possessed” at Fringe Festivals in Canada. TV/Film acting credits include The Interview (Sony), Y: The Last Man (FX) and Resident Alien (Syfy). She has been a participant of the BIPOC TV & Film Showrunner Bootcamp, and attended the Banff World Media Festival as a Telus Storyhive delegate.

She frequently collaborates with her sister, Andrea Bang. Together they’ve written short films and are currently working on a feature film script. They are stepping into playwriting together and would like to thank Boca Del Lupo for this opportunity to get messy and explore sisterhood in a fun way.

Gavan Cheema is a director, writer, dramaturg and co-Artistic Director of Theatre Conspiracy. She is based out of Vancouver: the occupied territories of the Coast Salish peoples. She is an award winning first-generation Punjabi Canadian artist, and was a recent member of the inaugural REFLECT Leadership program through the GVPTA and the City of Vancouver.

Gavan has created new work and has directed for various local, national and international stages including: The Cultch, The Arts Club, The PuSh Festival, Neworld Theatre, Rumble, The Shaw Festival, The Theatre Center, and Battersea Arts Centre (UK). She is also a Story Editor for television, currently working on Allegiance (CBC). Select works for the stage include Himmat (writer), SWIM (director), Eyes of the Beast (writer), Same Difference (co-creator/dramaturg), Conspiracy Now (co-creator), Rishi & d Douen (co-creator), Catfish (director), and Burqa Boutique (director).

David Mesiha is a, Toronto and Vancouver based, award-winning music composer, sound/video designer, interdisciplinary artist and co-artistic director of Theatre Conspiracy. As a designer and theatre maker. His practice centres around examining questions of form in interactive and performance arts. His work has been presented at various national and international venues and festivals including, England, Scotland, Mexico and Argentina. His inter-disciplinary works integrate VR, AR and video game design in imagining new creative spaces that open dialog between visual arts traditions and those of the performing arts.

He has worked on shows such as Project (X) by Leaky Heaven, Terminus by Pi Theatre, Foreign Radical by Theatre Conspiracy, You Should Have Stayed Home by Spiderweb Show and Crow’s Theatre 15 Dogs. He is also music composer, sound co-designer and created audio implementation for asses.masses a project conceived of and led by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim.

Select works include SWIM, Same Difference, 15 Dogs, Himmat, Foreign Radical and Sound Of The Beast.

Kellee Ngan (she/her) is a multidisciplinary writer based in the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her writing has been published in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies including Geist, Grain, Witness, Poetry is Dead, Good Mom on Paper (Book*hug Press) and Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine (Caitlin Press). She has also created and collaborated on work for live and digital performance including Rishi & d Douen, an audio play for young audiences (Rumble Theatre/Carousel Theatre for Young People). Kellee holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.

Valerie Sing Turner is a multidisciplinary artist who performs, writes, directs, dramaturges, and produces. Her works for the stage include the interdisciplinary CONFESSIONS OF THE OTHER WOMAN; the libretto for the comic chamber opera DID I JUST SAY THAT? for soprano and mezzo soprano; and IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAINS, a dramedy for 10 actors centering three generations of an interracial family (Indigenous, Chinese-Canadian, and Japanese-Canadian). A recipient of the Enbridge playRites Award for Emerging Canadian Playwright, John Moffat + Larry Lillo Prize, UBCP/ACTRA’s International Women’s Day Award, and BC Lieutenant Governor’s Platinum Jubilee Arts & Music Award in recognition of her “exceptional contributions to the arts”, Valerie is Co-Director/Creative Lead for CultureBrew.Art, a digital platform featuring a Canada-wide searchable database of Indigenous and racialized artists working in the performing, literary, media, and visual arts, as well as founder/Co-Artistic Producer of Visceral Visions.

Jasmine is a second-generation Taiwanese-Singaporean immigrant artist based in the unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations. She makes and supports multilingual interdisciplinary work that pushes for linguistic and formal diversity.
Jasmine’s work as a performer, director, educator and creator has engaged with communities from coast to coast in repertory festivals, independent theatres, regional and outdoor theatres. She is the creator of Jade Circle and a member of the Five Blessings Collective.
Jasmine is a recipient of the Gina Wilkinson Award, the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Canadian Stage Performer Award, Stratford Festival Jean Gascon Award, and is a Dora Award Nominee. She has been featured in CBC Arts,  The Georgia Straight, The Toronto Star, Stir Magazine, Intermission Magazine, Fete Chinoise Magazine and the Vancouver Sun. Jasmine is an alumnus of the National Theatre School Artistic Leadership Residency. Website: msjasminechen.com. IG: @hausofchen

Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng 吳彩萍 (°1997, they / she) is a Hong Kong-Irish theatre maker and designer of set, costume and video. Ping was born and raised in Enniskerry, Wicklow. They won a Linbury Prize and John Elvery Prize after graduating from MA Performance Design at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (2021). They have designed for venues including the Abbey Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and Singapore Repertory Theatre. Their most recent piece of theatre making / designing, WINDOW A WORLD, was co-produced by Dublin Theatre Festival and BUDA Belgium through the EU’s Be SpectACTive! project (2022). Ping is primarily inspired by their heritage while examining language, colonialism and queerness. They combine this with humour, surrealism and innovative design. Their projects include people with and without theatre experience, reflecting their belief that the medium should be open to everyone.

Gloria Mok (莫嘉詠) is a theatre creator, dramaturg, producer, and designer who grew up in Mississauga, ON (Treaty 13 territory). As a daughter of immigrants from Hong Kong, works that explore themes of migration, transcend language barriers, and challenge traditional norms interest her. Gloria co-founded Silk Bath Collective in 2016, a company focused on creating multidisciplinary plays about the Chinese diaspora. Their play WOKING PHOENIX won he 2024 Jon Kaplan Audience Choice Award. Gloria is the Producer at Nightswimming, a dramaturgical company that commissions theatrical projects and fosters performance research. She is Playwright in Residence at Driftwood Theatre where she is developing her full-length play, DIMINISHED. She was Emerging Artist in Residence at 2b theatre where she developed her solo show LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS FOR MYTHICAL TIMES, which recently toured to Whitehorse. She is grateful to her family for their ongoing love and support.

Kodie Rollan is a Philippine-born, Scarborough-raised, Mohkinstsis-based playwright, dramaturg, lyricist, educator, and arts leader. He is a passionate community-builder and always aims to create spaces for shared storytelling and arts equity within the nonprofit sector.

As a storyteller, Kodie is drawn towards explorations of justice within racialized bodies and how we can move towards more abolitionist futures. He is currently the Artistic Director of Chromatic Theatre, and is also currently a facilitator of the Rozsa Foundation’s arts management and education programs. He’s also been the Associate Dramaturg at the Banff Playwrights Lab from 2022 – 2024. He was one of the recipients of Theatre Alberta’s 2023 Michelle Dias Community Service Award. Outside of theatre, Kodie is a huge basketball fan and spends a good amount of his time watching and thinking about the Toronto Raptors.