CIARA ADAMS (Founding Member) is a musician, actor-creator, and art’s educator. After studying Opera at Queen’s University, Ciara moved to London, England to train as an actor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In the U.K. Ciara worked at the Royal National Theatre and with the RSC among others. From 2002-2008 Ciara was an associate artist with Theatre Gargantua in Toronto. She has worked with bluemouth inc. since 2003, and been a co-artistic director since 2009. Ciara is also a singer who has released two albums. Ciara teaches voice from her home studio in Toronto, and is a lead artist with the RCM’s Learning Through the Arts program. www.ciaraadams.ca
LISA HUMBER (Artistic Core) is a theatre maker and musician based in Toronto. She is currently the Production Stage Manager for bluemouth inc’s Café Sarajevo which premiered Singapore and Toronto in Jan 2020 as well as the Stage Manager for Mirvish Productions’ Come From Away in Toronto. In addition, Lisa is also working on her first album of music due to be released in 2021. Selected Stage Management Credits include: Strictly Ballroom, The Heart Of Robin Hood, Les Misérables, War Horse, Ghost Stories, The Sound Of Music and Dirty Dancing (Mirvish Productions), Butcher(Why Not Theatre/ Mirvish Productions), It Comes In Waves (PANAMANIA/ bluemouth Inc/ Necessary Angel), Party Game (bluemouth inc/Necessary Angel), Dance Marathon (bluemouth inc) Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan In Wonderland(Ross Petty Productions), Grey Gardens (Musical Stage Company). Lisa has worked in theatres across Canada and internationally, she has been a faculty member at the Banff Centre and is a member of the Professional Advisory Committee for the Theatre Production Program at Humber College.
MARIEL MARSHALL (Artistic Core) is a multidisciplinary performing artist working across the mediums of theatre, film and digital media. She is the co-founder of Sundown Theatre in rural Kincardine Ontario where she spent 5 years as the artistic director. A few of her favourite projects include The Tale of a Town: Kincardine (in collaboration with FiXT POINT), Tuesdays & Sundays (dir. Clare Preuss), The Selkie of Kincardine (dir. Matthew Walker), original music composition for Birth of Frankenstein (Litmus Theatre); and her solo show Liquid Terror Space Camp (dir. Clare Preuss).
contact: mariel@bluemouthinc.com
STEPHEN O’CONNELL (Artistic Core) has a BFA in modern dance from Rutgers University and an MFA in interdisciplinary art from Simon Fraser University. From 1990 to 1997, he was co-Artistic Director of Radix Theatre in Vancouver, a site-specific interdisciplinary performance collective. His collaborations include experimental films which have been screened at The Vancouver International Film Festival, The American Dance Festival, and the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto. He is also the Co-Founder of FREE FALL, a biennial festival in Toronto, Canada of new and interdisciplinary performance.
LUCY SIMIC (Artistic Core) is a writer, dancer and theatre artist creating experimental performance for over ten years. She is a founding member of bluemouth inc. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, she has also worked in Vancouver as co-Artistic Director of Radix Theatre, in Toronto, Montreal and London. She has taught movement for actors at Humber College, and teaches movement improvisation in the bluemouth educational workshops. She is also a certified Pilates instructor. She holds a degree in French, Dance and Mathematics from Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Playwriting.
RICHARD WINDEYER (Founding Member) is a composer, percussionist and digital media artist specializing in sound. His research focuses on the impact of digital technologies and generative systems on creative process, live performance, and experiential design. He is especially interested in working across multiple disciplines, both within the arts and beyond. In 1996 he was a co-founder of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology. As an educator, he has taught courses and workshops in music technology, electroacoustic music, sound recording and design at Wilfrid Laurier University since 2000. Richard is currently pursuing doctoral work through a collaboration between the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. He is also a Research Assistant at the Digital Dramaturgy Lab (University of Toronto)(www.richardwindeyer.com)
SABRINA REEVES (Founding Member) graduated from Carnegie-Mellon with a BFA in Drama. Upon graduation she moved to New York where she worked as an actor in film and theatre from 1990-1997 (some credits: Big Night, The Misanthrope, My Children! My Africa!, Soul Food). In 1997 she moved to Montreal where she co-founded bluemouth inc with Lucy Simic. Sabrina is also a professional photographer/videographer who contributed to the WarChild documentary: Musicians in the War Zone and directed the David Usher video ‘My Way Out’.
Associate Artists
Elijah Brown
Cassandra Bugge
Cameron Davis
Chad Dembski
Aron Deyo
Carey Dodge
Jeff Douglas
Chris Dupuis
Nicholas Elliott
Sandrine Lafond
Stacie Morgain Lewis
Daniel Pettrow
Angela Rawlings
Kevin Rees
Clayton Smith
Robert Tremblay
Billy Wolf
Hanna Wolf
Omar Zubair