Charles Douglas* is thrilled to be collaborating with Single Thread for the first time. He works internationally as an actor, movement and fight director, and teacher. Credits include: A Christmas Carol, Anne and Gilbert (NAC English Theatre); Beauty and the Beast, Shrek: The Musical, The Addams Family, Into the Woods, Mary Poppins (Neptune Theatre); The Tempest, Turn of the Screw (Two Planks); Unconscious at the Sistine Chapel (2b theatre company, world premiere); Anne of Green Gables and Ted Dykstra's Evangeline (Charlottetown Festival, world premiere). Charles has also lent his voice and movement to Dream Adoption Society's XR work. He teaches at the Vancouver Film School, is a guest lecturer on the MA Character Animation programme at Central Saint Martins (UK), and collaborates with Sheridan College's SIRT Centre on their innovative research. Charles is a proud Chevening Alumnus, a Fellow of the RSA, and a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Upcoming: The Hatchling (Trigger, UK). My thanks to the entire Single Thread team and ensemble. Love to my family and my wife, Sierra. Visit: www.charlesdouglas.ca

*Charles Douglas is participating with permission from CAEA.

Nicole Eun-Ju Bell is a Toronto based mixed-race multidisciplinary artist with a passion for performance and technology. She is fascinated with cyborgs and Loïe Fuller. Among other things, she is an actor, projection designer, writer, and musician. More recently, she has branched out into producing podcasts and delving into the live-stream medium. She’s worked on shows at Theatre Passe Muraille, CanadianStage, Hart House Theatre, Toronto Fringe, Next Stage, and Summerworks. This is her first foray into Virtual Reality performance and she's thrilled to be working with a wonderful team, exploring this new intersection of performance and technology.

Stephanie Fung (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and arts worker who falls somewhere between her family’s first and second generations on this land, and flat on the understanding that this land was not meant for her. Upon graduating from Queen's University (BAH in Drama and Indigenous Studies), Stephanie joined the Kingston Theatre Alliance as an Assistant Theatre Critic. Select performance credits include: The Intangible Queer (YIKES a Theatre Company); Y2Kaper (6am Productions); Talk to Me (Alisha Grech MA Thesis); Christina, the Girl King (5th Company Lane); Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (Theatre Count); In This World (Theatre Count); paper SERIES (5th Company Lane); and Concord Floral (Theatre Kingston).

Liam Karry is the founding and current Artistic Director of Single Thread. He is also the Artistic Producer of the Kick & Push Festival, which he co-founded in 2015, as well as the Artistic Producer of the Kingston Theatre Alliance. He works primarily as a director, producer, and dramaturge. He has trained at Queen’s University, Director’s Lab North, Tarragon Theatre and with Punchdrunk Enrichment in the UK. Recent directing credits include The Flick by Annie Baker, as well as Ambrose and Unless, two original immersive theatrical experiences staged in Bangkok, Thailand.

Chloe Payne is a physical theatre performer, creator and arts educator based in Vancouver. As a graduate of the prestigious physical theatre school École Philippe Gaulier, she uses physical theatre, improvisation, devising along with text-based creation styles to produce theatre that is funny, relevant and poignant. Creation and devising credits include: The Five Points (Theatre by the Bay), Configurations of a Divine Bitch (Goat Howl) and Waiting for Batteries (Slippery People). As a performer, she specializes in physical comedy and classical text. Noteworthy credits include: Northern Lights (Theatre by the Bay), The Stranger (DLT Teatro), Antigone (Soup Can Theatre) and Much Ado About Nothing (Single Thread Theatre Company). She teaches physical theatre for various institutions, including: Rumble Theatre, The University of Toronto, Havergal College, The Storefront Theatre, The County of Simcoe and Sweet Action Theatre Company. Follow Chloe: @payne.chloe

Shelby Bushell is a theatre director and stage manager based in Vancouver pursuing a Masters of Digital Media from Ryerson University where she is researching interactive storytelling and future technologies as they apply to Canadian theatre. She is captivated by the potential that exists at the intersection of theatre and digital media and is thrilled to be working with Single Thread Theatre as XR Producer. Recent directing credits include: IRIS (Wunderdog Theatre), The Trophy Hunt (November Theatre), Born Yesterday (Ensemble Theatre Company), Dear Elizabeth (Wunderdog Theatre), and The Shape of a Girl (Stonesthrow Productions).

Alex Dault is a VR game designer and producer currently pursuing the development of virtual reality applications at the Centre for Entertainment Arts in Vancouver, BC. He was the executive director of PXR2020, a conference that brought together artists and technologists from across Canada into VR in October 2020. Before that, he was Artistic Director of Theatre by the Bay in Barrie, Ontario from 2014-2018. His works as a director, playwright and puppeteer have included Caribou Cave (2019), Northern Lights (2018) The Five Points (2017), Turkey Shoot (2016), Firebrand (2014) Alex studied at George Brown Theatre School, Queen's University and at École Philippe Gaulier.

Joshua Doerksen is a digital creative, multi-disciplinary artist and owner of the media-marketing company Sprout Wise. Over the past decade he’s had a distinguished career as a music producer, sound designer and composer; working on dozens of professional theatre productions, radio jingles, film scores and more. Joshua graduated from the University of Guelph with an honours degree in classical music composition and vocal performance. He recently completed an artist residency at the Banff Centre of the Arts for emerging technology as well as collaborated with the National Arts Centre for their Grand Acts of Theatre. Joshua is currently the lead singer of a rock band called The Mystics and is excited about exploring new horizons in sound design and music composition for virtual reality.

Kaelyn Lindquist is a full-time coder, practicing martial artist, and lover of all animals (except for insects). She loves VR, when it doesn’t make her sick, and enjoys creating interactive things.

Jake Runeckles is a theatre maker, musician, coding enthusiast, and advocate for positive change. A studious kid, Jake began training in classical piano when he was 4 years old, and as a teenager, outside of his devotion to maths, sciences, and programming, he developed a love for musicals. He trained as an actor at George Brown Theatre School, and the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. In addition to acting, he has worked as a playwright, as a producer, and as a musician for companies such as Cahoots Theatre, Clay and Paper Theatre, and Theatre by the Bay. Selected acting credits include The Neverending Story, Henry VIII (Stratford Festival); I and You (Outlook Theatre); The Secret Garden (Young People’s Theatre). Jake has been excited to revisit the digital programming realm of late, as the web developer for the SpringWorks Festival, and now as a producer for Collider with Single Thread.

Justine Katerenchuk is a Toronto based theatre practitioner and a graduating student of the Performance: Production & Design BFA program at Ryerson University. She has focused her studies mainly on Production Management and Technical Direction. She has recently been exploring different avenues of XR performance especially through her capstone work at Ryerson. She is interested in continuing to explore different types of performance that can be discovered through new technologies and is excited to be working on more XR projects this Spring, especially Collider. Some digital performances she’s worked on include rabbit hole (2021) & Love and Information (2020).