Our Creative Community

A.W. Nadine Grant

Costume Designer, Sweeter (23/24)

Alejandra Nūnez

Past Board Member (2020 - 2023)

Alicia Plummer

Actor, Sweeter (23/24)

Alicia Richardson

Playwright-in-Development

Allen MacInnis

Director

Amaka Umeh

Assistant Director, Sweeter (23/24)

Amanda Lin

Playwright/Actor, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Amelia Blaine

Head of Props, Sweeter (23/24)

Andile Win

Crossing Gibraltar Artist (20/21)

Angela Sun

Hot House Lift Off Playwright (20/21)

Anita Nittoly

Intimacy Coordinator, our place (22/23)

Anthony Allan

Technical Director, Sweeter (23/24)

April Leung

Workshop Actor, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Autumn-Joy Dames

Sing for Your Summer Musician (2021)

Caitlin Farley

Captions Operator, Sweeter (23/24) and Three Ordinary Men (21/22)

Cheyenne Scott

Hot House Lift Off Playwright (20/21)

Christopher-Elizabeth

Sound Designer, our place (21/22)

Chynah Philadelphia

Head of Props, our place (22/23)

Claudia Tam

Costume and Props Designer, Three Ordinary Men (21/22)

Coleen MacPherson

Creator-in-Residence (2021-23)

Daren Herbert

Actor, Sweeter (23/24)

Dhanish Kumar Chinniah

ENBY Ensemble (20/21); Production Ass't, Hot Pot (22/23)

Durae McFarland

Hot House Lift Off Playwright (20/21)

Echo Zhou

Set and Lighting Designer, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Elizabeth Staples

COVID Officer (2021-23)

Elyne Quan

Dramaturge, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Emerjade Simms

Actor, Sweeter (23/24)

Emie Sabandal

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Emilie Aubin

Rehearsal Stage Manager, our place (22/23)

Emily Jung

Projection Designer, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Esther Jun

Director, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Farnoosh Talebpour

Assistant Stage Manager, Sweeter (23/24)

Gabriel Townsend

Technical Director, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Geraldine Fuenmayor

Hot House Crossing Playwright (21/22)

Isaac Thomas

Past Board Co-Chair (2009 - 2023)

JD Darawi

Captions Operator, our place; Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Jack Copland

Actor, Three Ordinary Men (21/22)

Jamar Adams-Thompson

Actor, Three Ordinary Men (21/22)

James B. Elloso

Hot House Crossing Playwright (21/22)

Jan Jennings

Hot House Crossing Playwright (21/22)

Janice Jo Lee

Sing for Your Summer Musician (2021)

Jasmine Chen

Director, Hilot Means Healer (19/20)

Jawon Mapp

Sing for Your Summer Musician (2021)

Jay Northcott

ENBY Ensemble Facilitator (20/21)

Jeff Yung

Hot House Lift Off Playwright (20/21)

Jennifer Stobart

Stage Manager, our place (22/23)

Jillian Cooper

Production Assistant, Three Ordinary Men (21/22)

Jo SiMalaya Alcampo

Playwright, Hilot Means Healer (19/20)

Jordan Laffrenier

HHLO / Black PenTHER Dramaturge (20/21/22)

Julia Howman

Projection Design Mentor, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Kaleb Alexander

HHLO / Black PenTHER Playwright (20/21/22)

Kanika Ambrose

Playwright, our place (22/23)

Kareem Vaude

Sing for Your Summer Musician (2021)

Kat Chin

Stage Manager, Sweeter (23/24)

KayGeni

Sing for Your Summer Musician (2021)

Ken Caughey

ENBY Ensemble Artist (20/21)

Kenzie Tsang

Actor, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Keshia Palm

Hot House Lift Off Playwright (20/21)

Kiarash Dudgar

COVID Officer (2022)

Krystal Kavita Jagoo

Crossing Gibraltar Artist (20/21)

Kwaku Okyere

Blackstage Pass Co-Host (20/21)

Lia Luz

Sing for Your Summer Musician (2021)

Lily Chan

Stage Manager, Three Ordinary Men (21/22)

Luke Reece

Hot House Lift Off Playwright (20/21)

Maher Sinno ماهر سنّو

Crossing Gibraltar Artist (20/21)

Makambe K. Simamba

Blackstage Pass Co-Host (20/21)

Marjorie Chan

Artistic Director (2013-19)

Maya Royer

Production Manager, Sweeter (23/24) and our place (22/23)

Mercy Cherian

Hot House Lift Off Playwright (20/21)

Michael Fillier

Lighting and Projection Assistant, Three Ordinary Men (21/22)

Mina Zaghari

Creator & Performer

Miquelon Rodriguez

Sound Designer, Sweeter (23/24)

NIUBOI

ENBY Ensemble Artist (20/21)

Natércia Napoleão

Hot House Crossing Dramaturge (21/22)

Nia Osei

COVID Officer (2022-23)

Olivia Shortt

Crossing Gibraltar Producer (20/21)

Olivia Wheeler

Sound Designer, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Pablo Ogunlesi

Actor, our place (22/23)

Parastoo Amanzadeh

Creator & Performer

Parmida Vand

Hot House Lift Off Playwright (20/21)

Paz Jurado

Hot House Crossing Playwright (21/22)

Raj Jain

Crossing Gibraltar Artist (20/21)

Rebecca Vandevelde

Production Supervisor, our place (22/23)

Reva Lokhande

Assistant Stage Manager, our place; Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Riaz Mahmood

Crossing Gibraltar Artist (20/21)

Robyn Kaur Sidhu

ENBY Ensemble Artist (20/21)

Sabryn Rock

Director, our place (22/23)

Sansom Marchand

ENBY Ensemble Artist (20/21)

Santiago Guzmán

Hot House Crossing Dramaturge (21/22)

Sarah Yuen

Costume Designer & Head of Props, Between a Wok and Hot Pot (22/23)

Shaista Latif

Crossing Gibraltar Facilitator (20/21)

Shawn Henry

Lighting Designer, Sweeter (23/24) and our place (22/23); Lighting/Projection Designer, Three Ordinary Men (21/22); Production Manager, Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (22/23)

Shayne Levin

Video Designer, our place (22/23)

Signy Lynch

Past Board Co-Chair and Secretary (2017 - 2023)

Sim Suzer

Set Designer, Sweeter (23/24); Set and Costume Designer, our place (22/23)

Sophia Walker

Actor, our place (22/23)

Steven Elliott Jackson

Playwright, Three Ordinary Men (21/22)

Susan A. Lock

Hot House Lift Off Playwright (20/21)

Sébastien Heins

Actor, Sweeter (23/24)

Tan Vu

Crossing Gibraltar Artist (20/21)

Cahoots
30 for 30

When I first applied to be artistic director of Cahoots in 2013, I revisited my own past with the organization. To my astonishment, I discovered I had worked at Cahoots every single year in some capacity or another since 1998. I had variously been supported as performer, writer, youth facilitator, producer, dramaturge, director and administrator. I would not be remiss to say that my career would not exist without Cahoots.

Founded in 1986 by Beverly Yhap, Cahoots Theatre was operating in a very different time, one in which artists from diverse backgrounds were few and far between. Over the years, our company has contributed significantly to changing the face of theatre, on stage and off. In 1986, I think I would’ve been hard-pressed to name 30 artists from diverse backgrounds. In 2016, I am thrilled to say that picking only 30 people was an enormous problem for us! There are many more deserving of recognition, enough to fill 30 of these books! Ultimately, we narrowed it down to people with a relationship to the company and who we believe have only begun to reveal their enormous potential.

Now, as we celebrate our 30th Anniversary, we invite you to celebrate it with us by honouring 30 Cahoots theatre-makers who we consider the future, and who we think will shape the next 30 years in Canadian theatre. Hope you are as inspired by them, as I have been.

Meet them. Remember them. Engage them.

- Marjorie Chan, Artistic Director (2013 - 2019)