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FILM EDITOR

Daniel O’Shea makes theatre, designs projections, and creates films, using technology and design as a keystone to support narrative and deepen dramaturgy. In PKD Workshow (2013) and Are we not drawn onward to new era (2018), Daniel employs a low-fi DYI aesthetic, exposing the guts of the performance machinery while convoluting the idea of spectating. In 2020 he completed his first feature length film collaboration centred around pre-extradition bill Hong Kong. His work focuses on states of presence, unbalancing audienceship and novel constructions of light through design and new media. Daniel’s artistic research has explored the ephemeral nature of a ‘self’, interruptions of technology on human processes, and the results cognitive dissonance.

Daniel’s work has been seen in Canada and internationally. He is a founding member of A Wake of Vultures. Daniel is engaged with Vancouver’s thriving contemporary performance scene and often engages in crossover with indie film and the digital arts.

PERFORMER + DEVISER

Molly MacKinnon is an award-winning violinist and collaborative artist based on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Recent projects include The Quarantettes; a seasonal roving show formed during the pandemic, Good Things To Do; a digital creation centred on technological intimacy and gentleness; and Never the Last; a concert/theatre hybrid exploring the life of 20th century composer Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, set to make its Toronto debut in Theatre Passe Muraille’s 2022/23 season. Molly’s extensive orchestral experience includes the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Plastic Acid Orchestra, the Vancouver Film Orchestra, and the Allegra Chamber Orchestra. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Concerts On Tap, a series that brings together Vancouver craft breweries and classical music, as well as the Co-Artistic Director of Seagrass Music Society. Molly performs regularly with the Black Dog String Quartet, whose first full-length album A Thousand Times Brighter is being released Fall of 2022.

PERFORMER + DEVISER

Emily M Cheung is a versatile professional singer who spent six years living abroad in Europe, and has performed in concerts/staged works worldwide, from South Africa to Venezuela to Malaysia. Highlights include being a featured soloist in a private concert for the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and the World Stage Premiere of Otto M. Zykan’s Staatsoperette at the Bregenzer Festspiele in Austria.

Passionate about connecting through music, she currently sings with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vancouver Cantata Singers, and with her international group, Time Ensemble, working globally with children/communities in need. Being spotlighted in the 2019 Volvo SUV Aria campaign also sparked an interest in recording, evolving to eclectic performances with CircusWest, the eatART Foundation’s “Daisy” (the world’s largest solar powered tricycle), and in Songs for a Lost Pod, a multi-disciplinary show combining scientific research, orca vocalizations and the impacts of intergenerational trauma on families.

PERFORMER

Emma Postl is a queer non-binary settler living and working on unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territory. They are a vocalist, teacher and herbalist and have been active in Vancouver’s creative music scene since 2014, when they graduated from Capilano University with a degree in Jazz Performance. Emma has toured Canada and the US as a member of art-pop outfit Only a Visitor, and they will be hitting the road again in 2023 to promote their upcoming 4th album. Emma also creates and performs with Dream-rock band Moondle, improvised folk duo Streams, and once in a blue moon they play solo as Clerestory. They are grateful and thrilled to be a part of Double Happiness: Detour this Way once again.

PERFORMER

Returning to Vancouver after seven years in Toronto, Kristin Fung’s ferocious, tender, and captivating voice as a lead singer, keyboardist, composer, and improviser traverse musical landscapes of “soulful grace [and] jazzy joy” (From The Intercom), and funky R&B. Her deeply earnest and uplifting originals evoke the sounds of self-accompanying piano queens Alicia Keys and Patrice Rushen, showing off her powerhouse lungs and groovy piano chops.

"Transcontinental Crush" (2021) is Fung's latest single available on all streaming platforms.

A soulful innovator, Fung is the creator of the outdoor live music and chocolate series, Funk N’ Mink which was one of five selected recipients of DowntownVan’s Public Space Vibrancy program (2021). Other performances include the Vancouver International Dance Festival (tiger princess dance projects, 2022), Vancouver International Jazz Festival (2021), Markham Jazz Festival (2019), and Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Vocal Ensemble (New York, 2014-2019).

UNDERSTUDY

Jasmine is a second-generation Taiwanese-Singaporean immigrant artist based in the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh , and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations and T'karonto. Her work has engaged with communities across Turtle Island, including The Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Arts Club, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Factory Theatre, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Nightswimming Theatre, Gateway Theatre, and Canadian Stage. At the core of her work is a dedication to community building and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her interest in multilingual creation, audience interactivity, social justice, and diasporic narratives often drive her artistic practice. Jasmine is a performer, director, arts educator, producer, writer, and creator. She is a recipient of the Gina Wilkinson Award, the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Canadian Stage Performer Award, Stratford Festival Jean Gascon Award, Toronto Harold Award, and is a Dora Award nominee. Her work has been featured in CBC Arts, NOW Magazine, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Intermission Magazine, the Georgia Straight, and Fete Chinoise Magazine.

ILLUSTRATOR

Kat G Morris is a half-Filipino 2D animator from Northern BC. She graduated in 2018 with a BMA in Animation from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She currently resides in Vancouver where she does a mix of independent freelance, studio work, and collaboration with her friends at Flavourcel Animation Collective. Using hand-drawn digital animation, Kat explores the limits and possibilities of narrative storytelling through symbolism, world building, and fluid, illustrative motions.

DRAMATURGICAL AND CHOREOGRAPHIC CONSULTANT

Giselle Liu is a choreographer and mover whose work has traveled to Hong Kong / China, UK, and Europe over the last two decades. Whilst abroad for eleven years, Liu developed a body of work that spans a wide breadth from community-based project to commercial, and contemporary works. She choreographed ‘A Fiona Sit Music Experience, Picnic Series #01’ and ‘Don’t let it go,’ and 2017’s Miss Hong Kong, Juliette Louie. Under the direction of Lindsey McAlister at Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, Liu’s work include: ’Fame’ (principle choreographer), ‘City Dancing’ (artistic director), and “an original creation and collaboration between HKYAF and Cirque du Soleil composer duo Violaine Corradi and Rose Winebrenner”, ’Melodia’ (co-choreographer).

Returning to Canada, her works include: “Smgan” (a collaborative short documentary with Indigenous Chilkat Artist Tina Robinson), “Unknown Rivers” (Emily Millard and Brianne Nord-Stewart), “Resonant Soul” (Corps Bara Dance Theatre), and “Mother, Sound/Body” (Method Dance Society).

PERFORMER + DEVISER

Kevin Romain is a composer and bandleader of jazz / improvisation ensembles Salience Network and Enemy Pigeon. He studied jazz / improvised music in Brooklyn, NY, and at Vancouver Community College. Marcus Gilmore, Tomas Fujiwara, Mark Guiliana and Dan Weiss are some of Kevin’s teachers. He has shared the stage with Anthony Braxton and legendary West African percussionist Doudou N’Diaye Rose. In Dakar, Senegal Kevin studied Sabar music and perform in the Deggi Daaj Festival of Drumsets and Dance. Kevin co-leads modern jazz trio Simple City, and plays regularly with art-pop ensemble Only A Visitor, Itamar Erez' quartet, and We Just Stole A Car, among many others.

Kevin tours regularly across North America, Europe, China, Japan and West Africa.

Presently, Kevin is developing New Polyrhythmic Directions for Solo Drumset, a musical project that pushes his complex rhythmic approach to composition and improvisation to new depths, searching for the limits of physical coordination and temporal cohesion.

PROPS MAKER

Stephanie is a London/Vancouver actor, puppeteer, and puppet maker/director. As a puppetmaker, she has worked for Wilton’s Music Hall, The Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, and Nick Barnes Puppets (UK), as well as The Cultch, Little Onion Theatre, Brock University, and Ghost River Theatre (CA). On the side she has a felting business named Felt and Fluff.

PERFORMER + DEVISER

Jeff Gammon is a Canadian contemporary bassist, composer and educator. He is a sought-after musician in the Vancouver music scene, playing with well-known creatives such as Dave Sikula, Dave Say, Tom Wherrett, Kevin Romain, James Danderfer, Joe Poole, Paul Pigat, The Sojourners and Hugh Fraser among others. Jeff has also been the recipient of many awards including Most Improved Musician at Mount Royal University, and the Linton Garner and MusiCounts Scholarships while completing his BMus at Capilano University. He is currently a member of Only A Visitor, The Dave Sikula Trio, Last Ark Out and Simple City.

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Charlie Cooper is a composer and media artist living and working on the the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. He writes concert music, music for dance and theatre, and makes installations, video art and performances.

Charlie’s collaborations include A Wake of Vultures, Projeto Arcomusical, Cities and Memory, Mivos Quartet and D.J. Sparr, and Media Sandbox. His installation and video work has been exhibited at Science Gallery Lab Detroit, ArtPrize 10, Small File Media Festival, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. Charlie lives and works on the the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. He holds an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University.

SET DESIGNER

Shizuka is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on set design and puppetry, who dabbles with puppeteer work on tv/film, illustration & graphic design, directing, and jewelry making. She has worked with many theatre companies including Arts Club, Neworld, Théâtre la Seizième, Carousel Theatre for Young People, Electric Company, Rumble, Green Thumb, Boca del Lupo, Theatre Newfoundland Labrador, and others.

Shiz is a five-time Jessie Richardson Award winner with multiple nominations, Ovation Award winner, the recipient of the Earl Klein Memorial Scholarship / Bill Millerd Artist Fund / Steven B Jung Award, and a graduate of Studio 58.

Shiz is currently focusing on developing 3 puppet shows:

Division Infinity Saves the World (Neworld) – Premiering at Vancouver International Children's Festival in 2023.

Otosan (Little Onion Puppet Co.) – Premiering at Vancouver International Children's Festival in 2024.

Monsters Like Us – In early development phase with support from VACT.

STAGE MANAGER

Kayleigh Sandomirsky is a stage/production manager, producer, curator and performer on the stolen territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). Kayleigh is currently the Producer/ Project Manager for Chimerik 似不像, as well as the Stage Manager for another rendition of The Array produced by UpintheAir Theatre. Kayleigh recently finished a month long tour of New Societies by Brian Postalian; as well as Stage Managed BLUSCRN by FakeKnot, presented at the Luna Festival; and 003_playback by Caroline MacCaull, presented by New Works. She also recenlty Production/Stage Managed Dancing to Remember by Aeriosa Dance and Butterflies in Spirit, Departure by Marissa Wong, Kwê by Jeanette Kotowich and collective; Revelations by UpintheAir Theatre,Ying Yun with Wen Wei Dance, and HIVE 2021: Flight Paths by the HIVE Collective.

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Jamie Sweeney is a Canadian, Vancouver-based, theatre collaborator living on the unceded traditional territories of the hən̓ q̓ əmin̓ əm and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim speaking peoples. She is a lighting designer, a performer, a technical director, a deviser, a creator, and an artist. Previous work can be found on her website: jamiesweeney.ca

SET BUILDER

Andrew Pye has worked as a Lighting Designer, Production Manager and Technical Director for the last decade in Vancouver and Toronto. His designs and production work has ranged from international modern dance to local fringe theatre. These days Andrew resides on a small southern gulf island, tending to his hobby farm, working as a timberframer and building a home for his family.

Andrew was first involved in Double Happiness as the Lighting Designer in 2020 but has returned as the Set Carpenter for this rendition.

Select design credits: The Boy In The Moon (Neworld Theatre), Boy In The Moon (Neworld Theatre), Urinetown and Incognito Mode (Studio 58), Maada’ookii Songlines (Luminato Festival), Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Gateway)

Andrew is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and IATSE 659.

DEVISER + PERFORMER (2020)

Amanda Sum is a performer and creator dancing between music and theatre. Amanda is Theatre Replacement's current COLLIDER Artist in Residence, developing her “pop-up book performance”, New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert. A full production of this piece will be presented at PushOFF 2023. Recent theatre projects include do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata (The Cultch), 3 seasons of the East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement), and Chicken Girl (rice&beans). The Permanent Rain Press describes Amanda’s “quirky indie pop” as the “perfect amount of wit and tact”. Her debut full-length album, New Age Attitudes, will be released in September 2022. Amanda’s music has brought her to be featured in the Vancouver Sun, booooooom.com, Fluevog and Vancouver Magazine. Amanda directed and choreographed a dance short film, Wide Stance Dance, for the Festival of Recorded Movement, and has lent a choreographic eye to her debut music video, Groupthink (2020, directed by Mayumi Yoshida), as well as the first music video off her album, Different Than Before, which stars Hollywood’s Tzi Ma.

UNDERSTUDY

Angela is originally from Calgary and moved to Vancouver to pursue her passion for acting and music. She has graduated from Studio 58, and is now excited to be exploring with this amazing group of artists.

Angela’s most recent experiences include: Six in Touchstone Theatre’s production of Ominous Sounds at a River Crossing, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre MSG Lab’s stage reading of Before They Cut Down our Tree, Theatre Replacement’s production of East Van Panto: The Wizard of Oz, and Juli in the newly released short film Reformat with Muskrat Pass Productions that will have its festival screening at the NewWest Film Festival. In December she will be a part of Carousel Theatre’s Production of The 3 Little Pigs.

VIDEOGRAPHER AND PROJECTION DESIGNER

Josh Hite works with photography, video, performance, animation, and sound, typically via typological processes, creating reorganized archives of behaviours, spaces and scenes disconnected by either geography or time. He strives to imagine content itself as a primary generator of possible forms while simultaneously investigating art historical or cultural references as structural assistants.

He collaborates with Vancouver’s theatre and dance communities, and works on exhibitions at the Museum of Anthropology. Josh has a BA in Philosophy, a MFA in Visual Art and teaches with the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

DOCUMENTATION VIDEOGRAPHER

Anthony Lee (he/him) is an emerging writer, director, interdisciplinary artist working in theatre and film on the unceded territories colonially known as Vancouver. His work focuses on challenging existing boundaries between cinema and live-performance. As a Hong Konger, his works investigate the impacts of colonialism and totalitarianism. Anthony’s work has been presented across Canada. Anthony received his BFA in Film Production from Simon Fraser University and is currently an artistic associate at Radix Theatre. GFHG SDGM