Cristina Tudor
pronouns: she/her)
PLAYWRIGHT AND PERFORMER
Cristina is a Romanian actress, playwright and movement artist. She graduated the MFA Acting International Program at East15 Acting School in London.
Her experience encompasses the collaboration with Romanian theatre & performing arts companies Cu Timp Pentru Cultură, Cultură'n Șură and Delazero, as well as a residency at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. She is an associate artist with GoldenBoi Screendance - a project based in London exploring dance and movement in film - and Béznă Theatre - a British-Romanian theatre collective.
Cristina is the founder of Cătun, a theatre company creating work that invites audiences in a space of introspection, empathy and connection. "Lia & Dor" is the second play in a series inspired by Cristina's family history.
The idea emerged after several meaningful discussions with her parents, grandparents and other members of her family. The experience of listening to their stories opened new perspectives on communication between generations, as well as a better understanding of the cultural heritage which transcends them.
Alexander Forsyth
pronouns: he/him
PERFORMER
Alex is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist with focuses in the performing, written, and visual arts, living and working on the stolen traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations.
Both Alex and the company he founded – K.I.A. Productions – originate in ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐊᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ on the traditional territories of the ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ, Denesuliné, Îyâaabe, and Niitsitapi Nations and within the Métis homelands and Métis Nation of Alberta Region 4. Here he began writing, producing, and performing plays that have toured nationally and internationally in collaboration with his wife and co-artistic director Keltie Forsyth.
Acting credits include Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (WB), Charmed (CBS), Genetic Drift (Pi Theatre), Pass Over (Ensemble Theatre), and Juice (The Cultch). His plays include 7 Ways to Die, a love story (with Keltie Forsyth), Bedlam (Junior Jester Cap Award, Calgary Fringe Festival), and Whiskey, Gin, and Pints of Beer. Alex holds a Master of Fine Arts with Distinction in Acting from East 15 Acting School (London, UK) and a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta.
Lester Lee
pronouns: he/him
LIGHTING AND SOUND DESIGNER AND STAGE MANAGER
Lester is a Chinese Canadian Stage Manager, Designer and Technician who predominantly works on new productions in an artistic technical capacity. He has worked across the country and abroad in many live-performance capacities on projects of technical merit and interest to challenge himself with innovative tech and visionary collaborators. He is an outspoken advocate of anti-racist, anti-capitalist art and decolonizing theatre experiences. Some select theatre credits include; Resident Company Designer for Good Women Dance; Fidelio, Rigoletto, La Boheme ASM for Edmonton Opera, ONE for Ghost River Theatre, Guest Technical Director for Tricklock Revolutions Theatre Festival.
Keltie Forsyth
pronouns (she/her)
DIRECTOR
Keltie is a theatre director of settler ancestry based out of the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from UBC. Recent directing credits include: Beautiful Man (Pi Theatre), In Response to Alabama (Little Thief Theatre), Vietgone, The Red Priest (United Players of Vancouver), Superior Donuts, In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Ensemble Theatre), She Kills Monsters, Eurydice (UBC), Juice, All in the Timing, Closer, Bedlam Kafka’s Metamorphosis (K.I.A. Productions).
Chris Lam
(he/him)
PRODUCER
Christopher Lam is a director/actor/ and playwright who is based on unceded and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, which Vancouver is located on.
As director some of his work which was last seen include Canadian premieres of Stiles and Drewe’s 3 Little Pigs (Carousel Theatre); The Nether (Firehall Arts Centre); Girlfriend (Fighting Chance Productions); Amélie (West Moon Theatre); world Premieres of How to Believe in Anything (Dreamphase Productions) which won the Cultchivating the Fringe Award and will be presenting a new digital hybrid in 2024; Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! (Revolver Festival); and Frankenstein: Lost in Darkness (Pacific Theatre) to name a few. He was the assistant director on the new translation of Grand Magic directed by Antoni Cimolino at the Stratford Festival.
He has been avidly performing as well, his credits include A Prayer for Owen Meany (Ensemble Theatre Company) and 100 Saints You Should Know (Pacific Theatre) both of which he was nominated for the Jessie Awards for best performance for an actor in leading and supporting actor roles. He has performed and worked with Arts Club Theatre, Gateway Theatre, Pacific Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, United Players, Carousel Theatre, Rumble Theatre and Ensemble Theatre Company, and Musical Stage Co.
His plays have been workshopped with the following companies: Andre and Xavier bb for the First Time (The Frank Theatre) which had a public presentation at Q2Q Queer Theatre Symposium and Shanghai Black Beer was workshopped with VACT. During the pandemic, he conceived and devised a digital play with the students of Studio 58 entitled I, Myself, Am Strange and Unusual.
He is a graduate of Douglas College in Fine Arts and Capilano University in Performance Studies. He is also the recipient of the Ray Michal Award for an Emerging Director, Ovation Award and CTC for best direction.