Anita Majumdar is a powerhouse actor, playwright, and multidisciplinary artist whose work has lit up stages around the world. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and the University of British Columbia, Anita has performed in leading roles across the country from Arts Club Theatre Company to the Stratford Festival. Her film debut in Murder Unveiled led to many on-screen projects including Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children as well as a judge for the reality tv competition show Bollywood Star.

Anita is most popularly known as the creator of the acclaimed theatre production, The Fish Eyes Trilogy, which premiered at Vancouver’s PuSh Festival at The Cultch and has since enjoyed 15 years of touring alongside her award‑winning play Boys With Cars (which recently played at Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre). Her honours include the Governor General’s Protégé Prize, Outstanding Actress at the Asian Festival of First Films in Singapore as well as the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance. 

Brian is the Artistic Director of Nightswimming and Director of the Banff Centre Playwrights Lab. With Nightswimming he has commissioned and developed 30 new works, directed national tours of works by Carmen Aguirre, Anosh Irani and Anita Majumdar, led its Pure Research program and created eight of his own plays, including Why We Are Here! (High Performance Rodeo; Harbourfront; Belfry Theatre) and These Are The Songs That I Sing When I’m Sad (Boca del Lupo; Blyth Festival). He is Board Chair and a former President of the Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas, and Board Chair of SpiderWebShow Performance.