Experiment Group #9

Team Members

Ksenia Broda-Milian

Ksenia is a set, costume, and lighting designer, educator, Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification Professional, and member of the Associated Designers of Canada. She lives and works with gratitude on the lands of win-nipi/Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory, having travelled across the country designing, teaching, and training.

Ksenia’s greatest artistic interests lie in creating designs that incorporate transformation, where elements and staging interact with and affect each other. She is passionate about creating a more equitable, accessible theatre world, using practices and processes that recognize the humanity of all involved.

Ksenia's theatre and design training includes a certificate from the Pratt Institute, MFA in Theatre Design (University of Alberta), BSc and BA Honours in Theatre (University of Winnipeg), Royal MTC's National Mentorship Program (theatre in unconventional spaces), Ghost River Theatre's Devised Intensive, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Her accessibility studies include coursework with the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and audio description techniques with Audio Description Training Retreats, VocalEye, and the Rationale Method.

Ksenia has designed for Theatre Circle Moliere, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Rainbow Stage, Western Canada Theatre, Magnus Theatre, Chemainus Theatre Festival, and assisted at the Royal MTC, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and Stratford Festival.

Website: www.broda-milian.com

Instagram: @kseniabdesign

Savanna Harvey

print('Hello, world!') Savanna [she/her] is an artist, performer, creative director, storyteller, experience designer, performance scholar…and probably a toaster? She tinkers with world-building and creative technologies to engineer the most ridiculous experiences possible. Her practices study the interrelations between culture, science/technology, and the environmental crisis. Over time, she has developed a signature aesthetic and dramaturgical process called technoclown, combining technology-inspired design and clown-logic storytelling. As an artist, Savanna has toured Canada performing weird little shows about science ghosts and garbage puppets. She leads workshops, is published, and presents on creative technology, digital/hybrid performance (applied), digital/hybrid performativity (theory), digital communities, and art as climate action. She lives and creates in Treaty 6 and 7 Territory in amiskwaciywâskahikan-Edmonton and mohkínstsis-Calgary.

Website: www.savannaharvey.com

Max Cameron Fearon

Max (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, Mad, and multiply-disabled artist. They’re interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative storytelling, and in exploring relationships with ourselves, others, and larger power structures. Max recently interned in Artistic Directing with SummerWorks, training in programming, curation, and artistic leadership under the mentorship of Laura Nanni. Currently, they’re co-creating How the Wolf Says Goodnight (with collaborator River Oliveira), a multi-media piece on queer interpersonal relationship dynamics through the lens of folktales, psychoeducational performance lecture, and sound collages.

Furthermore, Max is committed to supporting artistic development and to amplifying emerging and underrepresented artists. They support new play development with Write from the Hip (Nightwood Theatre); connect youth on the margins with professional artistic mentorships (Project: Humanity); and facilitate intergenerational creation processes, in-person and online (Mixed Company Theatre & Sparkin’ Art). In recognition of their efforts to increase the visibility of and opportunities for 2SLGBTQ+ youth, Max was nominated for “Youth of the Year” at the 2020-2021 INSPIRE Awards.

Max is studying Arts & Entertainment Design at X University and holds a BA Hons. from the University of Toronto. They’ve trained with Nightwood, Volcano Theatre, TENT, Theatre Gargantua, and the Cyborg Circus Project.

Website: www.mcfearon.com

Facebook: Max Cameron Fearon

Twitter: maxcfearon