(she/her) I am a Tkaronto based multidisciplinary artist of Lithuanian, Italian, British, and Irish ancestry who works in theatre-making, performance, research, writing, music, and facilitation.

 

My work explores climate justice, climate emotions, place, land connection, caregiving, ritual, intergenerational relationships, and the voice.  Together with Lou Jurgens, from 2009-2017 I co-ran the artist-driven performance company the blood projects, co-creating immersive, site-specific performances in intimate spaces. I have made performances in basements, alleyways, bathrooms, schools, theatres, lofts and online, and have worked with Theatre Direct, Next Stage Theatre Festival, The Arts Club, Soulpepper, Jumblies, Brave New Play Rites, Convergence Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Theatre Gargantua, Pleiades Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, SummerWorks, and Playwright’s Theatre Centre.

 

I am a research-creation PhD student in Theatre & Performance Studies at York, and my doctoral research explores performance as a place to imagine and rehearse emergent liberatory futures; settler-Indigenous collaboration; and decolonization in pedagogy, scholarship, and creation. I’m also a Graduate Research Associate at Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology.

 

With a BFA in Acting from York and an MFA in Theatre and Creative Writing from UBC, I teach Voice and Speech at The Centre for Indigenous Theatre and York, and have facilitated workshops and courses across so-called Canada. I recently performed a grief ritual co-created with Shira Leuchter about living and mothering in the polycrisis at FADO Performance Art Centre, and was a co-facilitator on Unspoken Futures with Dr. Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston and Lisa Marie DiLiberto. I am currently dramaturging Tai Amy Grauman's plays Rose and James: A Scottish Metis Love Story and Wiwimaw. 

 

I write an ocassional newsletter, host community-driven writing circles, and explore collective land-tending at Black River Farm and Wilderness.​​ Thank you for being here. Please say hi.