APOLOGY SHOW is an intimate and confessional concert during which select audience members will be invited to roleplay their dream apology. During this residency, we’ll be exploring the impact of APOLOGY SHOW’s narrative being more significantly guided/impacted by audience’ offerings than in our last workshop. 

About The Artists

Tiny Bear Jaws is an agile, queer & femme-run cross-Canadian theatre company that creates complex works with the goal of fostering empathy and productive discomfort. We workshop design elements from the beginning of our shows’ development so that by their premiere, productions’ aesthetics are integrated, immersive, and narratively essential. We’re passionate about incorporating digital media into our work as a way of exploring the wide-ranging implications of technology in our world.

Love Me Back is not a magic show or a play. It’s both, and neither. Mostly it’s about the inexplicable, including love and heartbreak and connection and the secrets in a deck of playing cards. It’s also about loving your solitude until you don’t anymore. Ta-da.

About The Artist

Michael Kras (he/him) is a Hamilton-based playwright, director, and magic designer. He is best known for his Voaden Prize-winning play The Team (Essential Collective Theatre/Theatre Aquarius); No Big Deal (Roseneath Theatre); and The Year and Two of Us Back Here (Broken Soil Theatre). He works internationally as a magic director & designer with credits including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Canadian Premiere and North American Tour); Franklin’s Key (Pig Iron Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); The Extinction Therapist (Theatre Aquarius); and the upcoming Canadian premiere of Clyde’s (Canadian Stage). 

PULSE explores whether dance and movement can serve as the core structure of a theatrical story, using improvisation, hip hop, and collaborative creation to build a piece rooted in belonging, identity, and community.

About The Artists

Eric Miracle is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends storytelling, movement, and experimentation. He’s excited to bring his experience to Pulse, using his creative background to help shape something fresh, unexpected, and alive.

Riel Reddick-Stevens (she/her) is an award-winning multidisciplinary creator, trained in acting and musical theatre at Randolph College and the National Theatre School of Canada. She’s all about making theatre more accessible and brings in new voices by mixing natural sounds and movement with choral vocals and beats.

Ramla and the Desert is a shadow puppetry/live animation project that is a haunting, fantastical tale about desert disappearances. Written and produced by Nehal El-Hadi, directed by Mabel Wonnacott, puppet design and animation by Heather Piper, music by Waleed Abdulhamid.  

About The Artists

Nehal El-Hadi is a writer, researcher, and editor. Trained as an environmental journalist and urban planning scholar, Nehal’s work explores the relationships – with materials, technologies, objects and spaces/places – that define what it means to be human.  She also holds a residency at Toronto’s Theatre Centre, where she is developing The Observer Effect, a public space performance that examines the impacts of surveillance.

Mabel Wonnacott is a Tkaronto-based opera director, arts educator, and puppeteer whose work has been described as “lively and imaginative” and “ingenious” (Opera Ramblings, Ludwig Van Toronto). She has directed and assisted on productions across Canada with companies including The Banff Centre, the NAC Orchestra, Toronto City Opera, and the Canadian Children’s Opera Company. She is a passionate advocate for live performance as a powerful tool for human connection and social change.

Heather Piper is an interdisciplinary artist and local 829 scenic painting union member. She studied screenwriting and puppet theatre at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has brought the magic of puppetry to diverse audiences – from performances at public gardens, to Broadway, commercials and independent film.

Waleed Abdulhamid is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer, vocalist, music and film producer. He is known for his striking vocals, innovative bass technique, and his speed and precision on percussion. He has been an active member of the Toronto music scene since his arrival, in 1991 from Sudan, where he began to perform as early as six years old. He is the recipient of the Canadian New Pioneer Award; African Tama Award; Reel World Film Festival Award and Canadian Film Board of Excellence Award and has received two DORA Awards. 

About The Festival Coordinator

Hailing from Singapore and Vancouver, Annasofie 诗慧 Jakobsen (she/her) is an emerging production and stage manager now based in Toronto. She’s thrilled to be the Festival Coordinator of this year’s Greenhouse Festival and to be working with so many talented artists!