Co-CREATION, DATA CURATION, PERFORMANCE Cole Lewis

CO-CREATION, PROGRAMMING, PERFORMANCE Patrick Blenkarn

CO-CREATION, PROGRAMMING, MUSIC + SOUND DESIGN Sam Ferguson

3D MODELLING AND ENVIRONMENTS Eric Ing

2D ILLUSTRATION AND ANIMATION Clarissa Picolo

LIGHTING DESIGN Itai Erdal

SCENIC DESIGN Helen Yung

PROJECTION DESIGN + TECHNOLOGIST Wladimiro A. Woyno R.

TECHNICAL DIRECTION Alex Grozdanis

SHOW OPERATORS Sam Ferguson, Alex Grozdanis, Christopher-Elizabeth

AI CONSULTANT David Rokeby

DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTANT Fatma Sarah Elkashef

MOVEMENT CONSULTANT Heidi Strauss

DISABILITY PRODUCER Anika Vervecken

EARLY PHASE COLLABORATORS Emma Cuzzocrea, Ezri Fenton, Laura Maieron, Shaan Tahir-Mehdi, and Daibei Wang

Produced by Guilty by Association

Co-Produced by STUDIO FUNFUG

Developed in association with the National Arts Centre of Canada’s National Creation Fund, The Elbow Theatre, and in part through Mitu’s Artists at Home and Mitu’s Expansion Works

Developed with the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Tarragon Theatre, Nightswimming Theatre, Design + Technology Lab, The Chrysalis, DART at Brock University, Playwrights Workshop Montreal, Precursor Lab, Theater im Pumpenhaus, and BMO Lab

Guilty by Association (GbA) is an interdisciplinary performance collective that shifts its process with each new project. Led by Co-Artistic Directors, Cole Lewis + Patrick Blenkarn, they seek to expand what theatre can do, devising work from design ideas, exploring modes of storytelling, and scheming to fuse media to the stage.

Cole Lewis (she/her) is a mom and mad theatre artist from St. Catharines, Ontario. She specialises in creating live performance from design ideas, exploring new modes of storytelling, and fusing technologies to the stage. Her practice includes directing, playwriting, and the design of moving image works. Twice nominated for Dora-Awards, Cole’s practice uses humour, design, and technology to explore notions of class and violence, expose questions of bias, and unsettle standard conceptions of ‘truth’ to explore alternative futures. She has an MFA in Directing from Yale and her thoughts on performance have been shared at LMDA, Howlround, FOLDA, Yale CCAM, and Canadian Theatre Review.

Patrick Blenkarn (he/him) is an artist working at the intersection of performance, game design, and visual art. His research-based practice revolves around the themes of language, labour, and democracy, with projects ranging in form from video games and card games to stage plays and books, with subjects as diverse as the labour of donkeys to the valuation of art to historical date farming practices in Iraq. He is a polyglot, programmer, animator, musician, and stage director. He is also the co-creator of asses.masses, co-founder of STUDIO FUNFUG, and co-founder of videocan, the national video archive of performance documentation.

Sam Ferguson (he/him) is an award-winning sound designer/composer from Toronto. After moving to Vancouver to study under acclaimed electroacoustic music composer Berry Truax he returned to Toronto where he became involved with theatre. This experience led him to enroll in the Yale School of Drama where he received an MFA for sound design. Since graduating he has returned to Toronto and has been working in the industry ever since.