Youth Engagement Projects
MENTORS:
PLAYWRIGHTING MENTOR:
Elio Zarrillo: Trans and Queer Theatre Artist, Educator and Cultural Dramaturg. Playwright of Volare (Prairie Theatre Exchange), The Green Building (Prairie Theatre Exchange), The Show (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre) and The Outside Inn (Festival Antigonish, co-written with Sharon Bajer). Their latest play in development PEACHES is part of Zee Zee Theatre's National Queer & Trans Playwriting Unit. Currently doing their MFA in Creative Writing at UBC.
CO-PERFORMANCE MENTOR, SHOWCASE DIRECTOR AND PROGRAM PRODUCER:
Tricia Trinh: Queer, Genderfluid, Chinese-Vietnamese-Canadian Interdisciplinary Theatre Artist. Founder of Dusty Foot Productions. Playwright/Director of Probability (rEvolver 2018), Red Glimmer (Fringe 2019]) Attachments (Tremors 2020). Assistant Director: we the same (Ruby Slippers), Henry V (Bard on the Beach). Upcoming artistic ventures: Director - Dil Ka (Ruby Slippers), Playwright - Attachments (Advance Theatre Festival).
“Whatever it is, the way you tell your story can make all the difference.”
- Youth Participant, 2020