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stephen o'connell has a BFA in modern dance from Rutgers University and an MFA in interdisciplinary art from Simon Fraser University. From 1990 to 1997, he was co-Artistic Director of Radix Theatre in Vancouver, a site-specific interdisciplinary performance collective. His collaborations include experimental films which have been screened at The Vancouver International Film Festival, The American Dance Festival, and the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto. He is also the Co-Artistic Director of FREE FALL, a biennual festival in Toronto, Canada of new and interdisciplinary performance and a currently member of the steering committee for Performance Creation Canada, a nationwide network dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance. |
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sabrina reeves graduated from Carnegie-Mellon with a BFA in Drama. Upon graduation she moved to New York where she worked as an actor in film and theatre from 1990-1997 (some credits: Big Night, The Misanthrope, My Children! My Africa!, Soul Food). In 1997 she moved to Montreal where she co-founded bluemouth inc with Lucy Simic. Sabrina is also a professional photographer/videographer who contributed to the WarChild documentary: Musicians in the War Zone and directed the David Usher video 'My Way Out'. |
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lucy simic's particular area of interest is in the integration of text and movement. She has been creating performance pieces for close to 10 years; in Vancouver as co-Artistic Director of Radix Theatre, in Montreal as an independent artist where she co-founded bluemouth inc. before moving to Toronto, and more recently in London, England in collaboration with Woodenhead Works and Sirius Productions. She has taught movement for actors at Humber College, specifically Chi Kung and River work (Grotowski - based movement training). She holds a degree in French, Dance and Mathematics from Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Playwriting from York University. |
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richard windeyer (BMus, MFA) creates music, sound and visuals for experimental theatre, radio, film, and integrated media projects. When not working with bluemouth inc., he collaborates with laptop trio FINGER, The Open Ears Music Festival and the occasional solo project. His work has been heard across Canada, Europe, the U.K., and on the Internet. (more...) |
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ciara adams trained at the Guildhall School of Music And Drama in London, England. She remained in the U.K. for a number of years after graduation, working as an actor, singer and director. In that time, she worked at/for The Royal National Theatre, Southwork Playhouse, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Northern Stage (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), The Contact Theatre (Manchester), she also co-created TITLE Productions. Since returning to Canada in 2002, Ciara has worked with Theatre Gargantua (Raging Dreams, e-dentity) and Bluemouth Inc. (What the Thunder Said, Something About a River, Memory of Bombs). She also directed Glenn Christie in the Toronto, Freefall Festival in 2004. Ciara also performs as a jazz singer. She recorded her debut Live Jazz Album at the 2004 Toronto Jazz Festival at Le Select Bistro. She performs often in and around Toronto. Visit her website — www.ciaraadams.com |
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elijah brown first worked with Bluemouth at the Mois-Multi 2000 Festival in Montreal although all of the Bluemouthians care to forget this...(sigh). Elijah is currently living in Las Vegas and is the leading character in Franco Dragone’s show “A New Day” starring Celine Dion. He has worked with DV8 Physical Theatre and spent 7 years with Compagnie Marie Chouinard where the hour long solo “Des Feux dans las Nuit" was created specifically for him. His heart lives where the Blumouthians play in between the realm of Art and Understanding, always searching to blur the lines of Life and Theatre. Elijah is currently co-creating 2 different projects: one is a fundraiser for the dying coral reefs in our oceans and the other is a piece of theatre not yet “titled”, scheduled to open in early 2008 either in Las Vegas, Montreal or Paris. Other credits include: The Tonight Show (backing vocals for Celine), the Oprah Winfrey show, NBC Special, Brain Candy, Road to Avonlea, West Side Story and The Arlen Project. |
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chad dembski was born and raised in Waterloo, Ontario. He studied at Studio 58 Theatre School. Previous Bluemouth Inc. shows include performing and co-creating with What the Thunder Said (Summerworks 2003) and performing in the five hour trilogy Something About a River (Dora Nomination for Best Male Performance, Independent Division). Co-founder and core member of The OOmph!! Group, whose previous creations include Me@sure <mailto:Me@sure> 3.1 (Toronto Fringe 1999), Inertia [phase two] (The Theatre Centre 2002), Exhibit (Summerworks 2002, The Theatre Centre 2003), and most recently TIMESHARE (Katherine Mulherin Art Gallery/Free Fall Festival 2004). |
david duclos David has worked in the arts for three decades, in disciplines ranging from graphic design to contemporary music to independent theatre and dance. From 1992 to 2002 he managed the Theatre Centre, beginning as General Manager and ending as Artistic Director. More recently, David has been working as a freelance designer and production manager on projects like bluemouth inc.’s American Standard, David Buchbinder’s Shurum Burum Jazz Circus, and the Carlos Bulosan Theatre Company’s production of The Romance of Magno Rubio. David Duclos has studied painting with Takao Tanabe and Molly Lamb Bobak. He has studied light design with Andrea Lundy, Jan Komarek and Rebecca Picherack. He is looking forward to the show that will combine these two worlds perfectly and is thankful to his collaborators for sharing the challenge. |
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chris dupuis is an artist working in video, performance, and text. His work has been presented across North America and Europe. In Toronto, his work has been showcased at the Theatre Centre, Buddies in Bad Times, Summerworks, The Goethe-Institut, The Canadian Stage Company, and the World Stage Festival. He worked for four years as part bluemouth inc. creating large-scale site specific works in porn-theatres, school buses, funeral homes, and other strange places. He also works as a freelance arts journalist and has been a regular contributor to NOW Magazine, Xtra, and the Berlin-based arts and cultural magazine Soma. |
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alexander lane holds a BA in Theatre from The University of New Mexico, where he performed with such groups as The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and Acco Theatre Center of Israel. He is Co-Founder of ConLab Theatre and played Winston Smith in their inaugural production of '1984'. He is currently based out of New York City where he interns with The Wooster Group and has performed in the reading of Richard Schechner's 'Dionysus in 69' at The Performing Garage and bluemouth's own 'What The Thunder Said'. Next up is ConLab's new project, 'Glenn Gould's Contrapuntal Theatre'. |
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kevin rees has worked with bluemouth inc. since August of 2003. He has been a performer/writer/visual artist in Toronto for the last 9 years. He has written several pieces for his company with Sam Stedman- Hammerheadbrand (Rabid, Madder, Oubliette). He and Sean MacMahon formed emergency.exit in 2001 (i like you, Where You are Now, 8 o'clock & not for all this...) One of his monologues will be published in a collection edited by Judith Thompson called "She Speaks"... soon. |
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greg shamie's New York credits include originating the role of Romeo in Joe Calarco’s critically acclaimed Shakespeare’s “R&J”, BlueMouth Inc.'s production of What The Thunder Said, Six Available Men at HB Playwrights, The Unrepeatable Moment, Summer of the Swans, Down the Road, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe, The Cherry Orchard, and The Learned Ladies. Greg’s film/tv work includes the hit independent feature film Elephant Shoes (Audience award at Santa Fe Film Festival and has been distributed by Alliance Atlantis in Canada), Levity, Bird in Hand, Six Feet Under, Law & Order, as well as starring in an Orange Mobile campaign directed by Martin Scorsese. |
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ciera wells holds a BS in Studio Art and Psychology from New York University and is currently completing her MFA in Design for Stage and Film (costume) also at NYU. In between she spent four years in Antwerp, Belgium and Nagoya, Japan designing costumes for theater, dance and film, studying textiles and teaching. Some productions include Hamlet, British Shakespeare Society, Frozen choreographed by Sofie Tack, and What the Butler Saw, Man of All Seasons, Nagoya Players. Most recently she’s designing for Bluemouth (What the Thunder Said) and the 52nd Project as well as NYU’s production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches directed by Benny Sato Ambush. |