PuSh Blog

Boomer Stacey 

January 09, 2025

Boomer is a mixed-blood settler/immigrant with roots extending to Cornwall (England), Sri Lanka, Nederlands and Portugal. Boomer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University, with a focus on photography, painting and drawing. Before […]

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Naomi Campbell

January 09, 2025

Naomi Campbell (she/her) has over 35 years of programming, touring, and producing experience, both nationally and internationally. She has worked with a range of performing arts companies in various roles and was the originating producer […]

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Justin Neal

January 09, 2025

After fifteen years juggling marketing and editorial production day jobs in San Francisco & New York with amateur theatre at night, Justin Neal relocated to his family’s traditional Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) lands to earn […]

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Yvette Nolan

January 09, 2025

Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturg who works across Turtle Island. Her works include the plays The Art of War, The Unplugging, Annie Mae’s Movement, The Birds (a modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ […]

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Erika Latta

May 04, 2023

A white woman with blue eyes and blond hair framing her face looks directly at the camera.

Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Erika Latta is the artistic co-director and co-founder of WaxFactory in New York City. WaxFactory continues to nurture a hybrid approach, based on unconventional narrative styles, originally dramaturgy, visual and physical rigor, technological […]

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Marlene Ferhatoğlu

January 11, 2023

Marlene is a first-generation Turkish-American marketing and events specialist in the arts industry. Having moved to Canada over 19 years ago in the ancestral lands of the Metis people, known as Saskatoon, Marlene gained a […]

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Dale Darychuk

January 11, 2023

Dale Darychuk grew up in the Kootenays. He attended the University of Chicago where he received a B.A. in Linguistics. He then returned to Canada to attend law school at the University of Toronto. He […]

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Selena Couture

March 22, 2022

Selena Couture is a white settler scholar and Associate Professor (Drama) at U of Alberta in Treaty 6 territory / Métis Region No.4. She writes about history, performance and relationships to land: deconstructing settler colonial […]

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