Aaron Collier - Performer, Composer, Writer, Designer

Aaron Collier was born in Prince Edward Island in 1981 and is an award-winning multi-talented musician/composer, sound and video designer, performer and theatre creator. His composition, sound, production, and video design work has toured throughout Canada, Ireland, the UK, and India and he has 14 years of touring and performance experience throughout the world with his previous bands The Jimmy Swift Band and Scientists of Sound. He is the co-founder and technical director of Halifax-based live art company Heist and is the co-creator of their lauded productions The Princess Show, New Waterford Boy, Nature Vs Nation, FACE, and Princess Rules.

Ann-Marie Kerr - Director

Ann-Marie is an award-winning theatre director, actor and teacher. Select
directing: Concord Floral (Fountain School of Performing Arts Halifax); Secret
Life of A Mother (Theatre Centre, Crow’s Theatre Toronto); One Discordant
Violin (2b theatre company, Halifax, 59E59 St Theatre NYC); Bed and
Breakfast (Soulpepper Theatre Company, Toronto); A Christmas Carol (Theatre
New Brunswick); Daughter (Theatre Centre; Summerworks, Toronto, Battersea
Arts Centre London; Intl tour); Snake in the Grass (Neptune Theatre); I, Claudia
(Globe Theatre Regina, Neptune Theatre); Stranger to Hard Work (Cathy Jones
Eastern Front Theatre, Ntl tour); The Circle (Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary);
The Debacle (Zuppa Theatre Company, Halifax); Invisible Atom (2b theatre
company Halifax, intl tour). A graduate of Ecole internationale de théâtre
Jacques Lecoq and York University and is the former Artistic Associate of
Magnetic North Theatre Festival.

Sylvia Bell - Production Manager, Performer/VR Driver

Sylvia Bell is a freelance Stage, Production and Event Manager with more than twenty years of professional experience. Throughout her career, Sylvia has participated in the growth of some of Atlantic Canada’s most dynamic theatre companies and has toured internationally. Sylvia has proudly dedicated her career to the promotion of new voices and has assisted in the development of more than 20 world premieres. At present, Sylvia serves as the Managing Director for Heist, a Nova Scotia based live art production company and studio. 

Stewart Legere - Writer

An interdisciplinary artist situated in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Legere is
the Co-Artistic Director of queer performance company The
Accidental Mechanics Group, and Associate-Artistic Director
of Zuppa Theatre Co. His solo performance, “Let’s Not Beat
Each Other To Death” (created in collaboration with the National
Arts Centre), was presented at the Stages
Festival (Halifax), OUTstages (Victoria), SummerWorks (Toronto),
PuSh (Vancouver), FTA (Montreal), IMPACT (Kitchener), Chapter
Arts Centre (Cardiff, Wales) and MAYFEST (Bristol, UK). He has
released two solo albums: Quiet The Station and To the Bone:
Songs from Splinters. He composes music and sound for theatre
and film, and is currently an artist-in-residence at The Theatre
Centre in Toronto. An avid and passionate collaborator, his work
is fascinated with sexuality, vulnerability, intimacy, the destruction

of persona, and the celebration of performance.companies across the Maritimes including Neptune, Festival Antigonish, 2B Theatre, Kazan
Co-Op, Opera Nova Scotia and more. Wilcox served as Artistic Associate of Theatre Outre in
Lethbridge, Alberta for three years where he helped create numerous original works including
the hit play Unsex’d. Wilcox is also currently the artistic director of the 36 year old Ship’s Company Theatre in Awokun/Parrsboro. Wilcox is a recipient of the Mayor’s Award for
Emerging Theatre Artist and a Merritt for outstanding performance in a supporting role.

Alex Sinclair - Technical Assistant

Alex Sinclair is a sound designer and stage manager located in Halifax, but hails from beautiful Saint John, NB. About to graduate from Dalhousie for theatre and journalism, Alex has previously worked as a Chrysalis sound designer on Neptune Theatre’s Controlled Damage and The Last Wife, and as a stage manager for Theatre Baddeck’s The Ladies Foursome and Dancing on the Elephant. During this pandemic/darkest timeline/fever dream, Alex did the sound design for comedy EP Bringing Daddyback by Halifax duo Jim & Vanessa, finally got around to reading “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat”, and spent three months cross-stitching a church. Alex is so happy to be working on such a beautiful project, with such a lovely crew. 

MacKenzie Cornfield - Designer

MacKenzie Cornfield is a fourth-year student at Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts,
where she is finishing the technical theatre program with a specialization in projection and video
design. At FSPA, she has accumulated a diverse range of theatre credits, including work as a
lighting designer, a devised set designer, and a scenic painter. Her first exploration of digital
theatre began as the associate digital designer for FSPA’s production of Machinal. 
MacKenzie is incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with such kind, open, and skilled
artists on Frequencies. The experience has been expansive, and has inspired her exploration of
physical, digital and energetic spaces greatly.

Richie Wilcox - Dramaturg

Richie Wilcox is an educator, a fiercely queer artist, and a creative collaborator. He is the founding artistic director of the live art company Heist based in K’jipuktuk/Halifax. In four short years, Wilcox has helped create The Princess Show, Princess Rules, Nature Vs. Nation, New Waterford Boy, FACE and Frequencies. With Heist, Wilcox has also produced and curated the Creative Nova Scotia Awards for the past two years. Wilcox has worked with numerous
companies across the Maritimes including Neptune, Festival Antigonish, 2B Theatre, Kazan
Co-Op, Opera Nova Scotia and more. Wilcox served as Artistic Associate of Theatre Outre in
Lethbridge, Alberta for three years where he helped create numerous original works including
the hit play Unsex’d. Wilcox is also currently the artistic director of the 36 year old Ship’s Company Theatre in Awokun/Parrsboro. Wilcox is a recipient of the Mayor’s Award for
Emerging Theatre Artist and a Merritt for outstanding performance in a supporting role.

Matthew Downey - Designer

A queer non binary theatre artist from St. John’s Newfoundland.
freelance lighting/set designer, as well as the technical director and
house tech of the Bus Stop Theatre. Since the pandemic hit they have
shifted their focus to creating and supporting digital art and virtual
performances, with investment in making art accessible. This is their
first time working in the medium of augmented reality. This show falls on
their ten year anniversary of working and creating in The Bus Stop
Theatre. credits include: The Blazing World , The Changeling (Villains
Theatre) Rings Thru Water, Fatty Legs (Xara Choral Theatre) Tom at
The Farm (Work Shirt Opera House)

Emlyn Murray - Designer

Emlyn graduated from the Dalhousie Costume Studies program in 2014 and is a
costume designer for film and theatre. Emlyn last worked with HEIST designing
costumes for Princess Rules which went on to win a Robert Merritt Award for
outstanding costume design. Recent theatre projects include Miss N Me (Eastern
Front), L'Etoile (Fountain School of Performing Arts), Lunenburg, Burnin' Love, Hope &
Gravity, Big Sister Little Brother, and Outside Mullingar (Festival Antigonish), Pocket
Rocket (Theatre Baddeck). Upcoming movie costume design credits include Wildhood and 8:37 Rebirth.