Who We Are

HEIDI

Pronouns: she/her

Role: Producer - What are we doing and how are we paying for it?!

Fun Fact: Grows garlic in her backyard, and rides her bike in all kinds of weather.

Heidi is a dramaturg, director and performer, and Artistic and Executive Director at PTC, based on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She makes all kind of theatre and performance, developing projects from first idea through production. She collaborated with Kendra Fanconi most recently on Tinkers, where she worked with the children’s cast climbing trees and knocking over woodpiles. Current projects include Tetsuro Shigetmatsu’s Kuroko, Derek Chan’s Chicken Girl, and Carmen Aguirre’s Anywhere But Here.

KEITH

Pronouns: they/them or he/him

Role: Dreams big and makes magic!

Fun Fact: Works at an LGBTQ2+ affirming church in the prairies, and loves swimming in the ocean!

This Calgary-based trans-disciplinary artist/designer/writer works predominantly with new-media, video & interactive design. Much of their work has explored the intersections of art, spirit and social justice, exploring themes of gender identity and expression. Keith has a long history working with artist-run centres as a curator and mentor to emerging artists, and has developed and facilitated leadership training programs for queer and trans youth with Dr Beth Hedva. Keith facilitates a bi-monthly interfaith group for the LGBTQ2+ community at Hillhurst United Church in Calgary. Keith’s solo and collaborative work has been presented and exhibited internationally, including the Musem of Modern Art in NYC, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. Murray’s innovative projection design has been seen in The Only Animals NiX, projecting on ice and snow in a giant outdoor dome, on trees over 100-feet tall in Vancouver’s urban parks for Out On a Limb. Keith has designed for numerous theatre companies including Vertigo, Downstage Theatre and over 10 years with the Green Fools in Calgary. In 2014 Keith won the Jessie Richardson award for Outstanding Achievement in Integrated Design with The Only Animal for their work on Nothing But Sky. Keith Just finished co-directing the 2018 Coming Out in Faith Monologues with Pam Rocker, and is currently working on their writing for stage and screen.

KENDRA

Pronouns: she/her

Role: In charge of making fun ideas into real things that can happen! Mama of Kali and Larkin.

Fun Fact: I wanted to name our cats ‘Caterpillar' and ‘Catapult' and call them both ‘Cat’ for short but the kids wouldn’t let me.

Kendra wrote her first play in grade 2 on the monkeybars, and can still recite it by heart. Then for a few decades after that, she kept being in plays, writing plays, directing plays, designing for plays, and generally having a fun time playing! In 2005, she created The Only Animal, a theatre company that makes shows that happens in cool places, like deep in the forest, or high on mountains, out of sand, or snow and ice or inside comic books. Kendra loves Nature and lives on the Sunshine Coast and has a big garden and knows where some kinds of wild mushrooms grow. For a year she carried a typewriter on her back when she went hiking and tried to translate the voice of the wilderness. That was good practice listening. Sometimes that is her job. The best, hardest, most fun, weirdest, most tiring, neatest thing Kendra does is be Mama to two kids, Larkin and Kali.

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