Experiment Group #1
Team Members
Olivia Woods
Olivia is an emerging director based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. Last year, Olivia was selected by National Theatre School’s #ArtApart initiative to direct Cosmonaut Number One, a project which aimed to create a theatrical experience through the digital medium.
Recently, she received a Sustainability Research Award (SAF) for her work on how the theatrical process can foster social transformation.Assistant directing credits include Encore (Tableau d'Hôte), Blue Stockings (Persephone Theatre), and En Point (Tableau d'Hôte). Olivia is a graduate of Concordia University’s Theatre Performance program.
seeley quest
seeley is a trans disabled writer, performer, facilitator, and environmentalist, in Montreal since 2017. Working primarily in literary and body-based composition, and curation, sie presented actively in the San Francisco Bay Area 2001-14, with the Sins Invalid project 2007-15, and has toured to Vancouver and Toronto. Hir playscript “Crooked” is in the anthology At the Intersection of Disability and Drama, hir first digital game narrative debuted for Canada’s National AccessAbility Week 2020, and work featured in Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times’ Rhubarb Festival 2021. Sie inaugurated a poetry and prose workshop for disabled writers 2021 with the Quebec Writers’ Federation, a “Queer Disabled Joy” movement workshop for Studio 303’s 2021 Queer Performance Camp, and has pieces in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, and forthcoming in Canadian Theatre Review. A white person with mixed class, gender, and medicalized experiences since childhood, not on social media, find hir at https://questletters.substack.com.
Meghan Moe Beitiks
Moe is an artist working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. She analyzes perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. She was a Fulbright Student Fellow, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She exhibited her work at the I-Park Environmental Art Biennale, Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery in Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the House of Artists in Moscow, and other locations in California, Chicago, Australia and the UK. She received her BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Studio Art Lecturer at the University of Florida.
Instagram: @culturenaturestructure
Vera Oleynikova
Vera is a recent graduate of York University’s Theatre Production and Design BFA. Over the last five years she has designed and built sets, props and costumes for theatre, acted as an art director/production designer on short films, published first person essays, worked as a set dresser and scenic painter on much larger films, built furniture, and worked on haunted houses. She is currently trying to forge a career in set design for film and theatre and is interested in space as a storytelling medium.
Instagram: @brass_cabinet