Kids Market is organized by Parents for Palestine. We are a multi-racial, interfaith, inclusive community of families on unceded Coast Salish territories. We support a Free Palestine. We advocate for safety, dignity, and love for all children. We are building a world where Palestinian children can thrive on their ancestral homelands without fear. Together, we are creating an inclusive, welcoming movement. We build child-friendly spaces, organize Palestinian-centered cultural and educational events, engage in solidarity work, and use our voices as parents to demand justice for Palestinian people

We accept cash and card payments! Follow @ParentsforPalstineYVR for a sneakpeek of everything we have to offer!

Accessibility

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What the Critics Have Said About The Effect:

“The Effect evokes the deliciously unsettling feeling that all of us are nothing more than bundles of chemicals in ongoing experiments” – The Guardian

“a knockout human drama” – London Theatre

“a parable for the modern age” – Harpers Bazaar

About the Show

Is it Love?
Or is it Chemical?

A dark, razor-sharp thriller by Emmy-winning writer of Succession, Lucy Prebble. The Effect dives into the chemical nature of love through the lens of a clinical drug trial. Connie and Tristan enter a study for a new dopamine-regulating antidepressant. They fall in love. Or do they? As dosages rise, desire and obsession intensify, and the boundary between genuine emotion and altered chemistry begins to blur. This provocative and timely co-production between Rumble Theatre and ITSAZOO Productions asks: If you can’t trust your heart and you can’t trust your mind—what’s left?

Content Advisory: This is a close-proximity experience with flashing lights, haze and loud sounds. This production includes sexual content, adult language, discussions of depression and mental health, and portrayals of pharmaceutical trials.

Ticketing

Preview – $20
Artist / Discounted performances – $25
All other shows – $30 REGULAR / $40 I ︎ INDIE THEATRE

Click here to get your tickets!

Progress Lab is wheelchair accessible.

If you have any specific access needs or if ticket prices are a financial barrier please email: Angie at angie[at]rumble.org

Show Schedule

WEEK 1

Preview: Friday, November 7 at 7:30 pm

Opening Night: Saturday, November 8 at 7:30 pm

Discounted Evening: Monday, November 10 at 7:30 pm
Discounted Evening:Tuesday, November 11 at 7:30 pm

Evening: Wednesday, November 12 at 7:30 pm
Evening: Thursday, November 13 at 7:30 pm
Evening: Friday, November 14 @ 7:30 pm

Discounted Matinee: Saturday, November 15 @ 2 pm

Evening: Saturday, November 15 @ 7:30 pm – $30 & $40 tickets.

WEEK 2

Discounted Evening: Monday, November 17 at 7:30 pm
Discounted Evening: Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 pm

Evening: Wednesday, November 19 at 7:30 pm
Evening: Thursday, November 20 at 7:30 pm
Evening: Friday, November 21 at 7:30 pm

CLOSING NIGHT: Saturday, November 22 at 7:30 pm

Plan Your Visit

For more information on how to get to Progress Lab 1422, please click here.

Meet the Cast & Creative Team

Paige Louter / CONNIE

Paige Louter (she/they) is a queer theatre creator and producer based in so-called Vancouver. She holds an MA in Drama and Theatre from the University of Galway, and works as a performer, writer, outside eye, and intimacy director. Paige produced The Café (ITSAZOO/Aphotic) and Sunrise Betties (ITSAZOO), produced/assistant directed Meeting (ITSAZOO/Pacific), co-produced and performed in The Wolves (With a Spoon/Rumble; Jessie Nomination: Outstanding Production) and performed in The Lonesome West (Cave Canem), Twelfth Night (Tottering Biped) and Coarse: The Brontes (Edinburgh Fringe). Year-round, they work as ITSAZOO’s Co-Artistic Producer and Currently Arts’ Operations Manager. Upcoming: solo shows God Joke Play and Nod.

Andy Kalirai  / TRISTAN

Andy Kalirai (he/him) is an actor and writer born and raised in Vancouver. He’s trained with Railtown Actors Studio and Tempest Theatre. Select credits include: Guards At The Taj (Vancouver Fringe), I & You (Tempest Theatre), Zahak: The Serpent King (The Biting School), and Gemini (Monsoon Festival) which he also wrote.

Meghan Gardiner / DR. LORNA JAMES

Theatre credits include: The Cull, The Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Story: the Musical, Blood Brothers, Paradise Garden, Evita (Arts Club Theatre), How The World Began (Pacific) The Boy in the Moon (Neworld Theatre), The Music Man, I Lost My Husband (Gateway Theatre), Dead Metaphor, Urinetown (Firehall Arts Centre) and The Last Five Years (Western Canada Theatre). Television credits include: The Flash, Family Law, The Good Doctor, Firefly Lane, A Million Little Things, Beyond, Backstrom, The L Word, Motherland, Supergirl and several Hallmark movies. Meghan is a YWCA Women of Distinction nominee and has written ten professionally produced plays.

Anthony Santiago (he/him) / DR. TOBY

Anthony is delighted to be making his ITSAZOO and Rumble Theatre debut.

Selected theatre credits include: Death and the King’s Horseman, King Lear, The Diviners
(Stratford Festival); Oliver!, Anne of Green Gables: The Musical (Gateway Theatre);
Heaven, Angels in America (The Citadel Theatre); Company (Raincity Theatre); Coriolanus, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Winter’s Tale (Bard on the Beach); A Prayer for Owen Meany, Dark
Road, Superior Donuts (Ensemble Theatre Company)

Film & TV: Motherland: Fort Salem, Sonic the Hedgehog, SCTV

Other: Four-time Jessie award nominee and two-time winner; two-time Ovation award nominee.

Much love to my Beloved wife Alexis and my kids James and Nya-Manet

Jiv Parasram/ DIRECTOR

Jivesh Pararam (He/Him) is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist, and facilitator of Indo-Caribbean descent. His work has toured Nationally and Internationally. Jiv is the founding Artistic Producer of Pandemic Theatre, and became the Artistic Director of Rumble Theatre following three years as the Associate Artistic Producer at Theatre Passe Muraille. He was a member of the Cultural Leader Lab with the Banff Centre and Toronto Arts Council. His public service work has included collaborations with the Ad Hoc Assembly, The Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and as an advisor to the National Arts Centre. His current cultural practice centres decolonization through aesthetics. As both a creator and a dramaturge Jiv has been involved in the development of numerous new plays and creation projects, several of which have gone on to be nominated for a Governor General’s Literary award in Drama. 

Lisa Goebel (she/her) / INTIMACY DIRECTOR

Select credits: choreographer/intimacy director for Bright Star (GTP/Mirvish), The Dark Lady (Bard on the Beach), A Doll’s House (Arts Club), and Pride & Prejudice (Western Canada/Gateway). Associate movement director/intimacy director for Choir Boy (Arts Club), and intimacy director for Die Fledermaus (Vancouver Opera), Yaga (Touchstone Theatre), and Waitress (Arts Club). Lisa is a certified intimacy director through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators and is a graduate of Studio 58.

Jack Goodison / TD & SOUND DESIGNER

Jack (He/Him) is a Technical Director and Sound/Video Designer who originates from the UK, now living in Vancouver. He works to create an atmosphere that immerses the audience into the world of the show, letting them escape reality and lose themselves in theatre. He has worked all across the UK and now designs on the ancestral and stolen lands of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh nations. 

Select TD/design credits include: Theatre Conspiracy (Himmat), Rice and Beans Theatre (Peace Country), Pi Theatre / Seizieme Theatre (Polygraph), Rumble Theatre (Las Pasiones de Don Pasquale; Chochito Rey; A Tavola), Axis Theatre (Where Have All the Buffalo Gone), Douglas College (The 39 Steps; Jane Austen Action Figure; Orlando; Mad Forest), Vancouver Opera (The Pearl Fishers).

Christine Quintanta (she/her) / COSTUME DESIGNER

Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother, Christine is now a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor, playwright, and (very) emerging costume designer. For Rumble Theatre, she has served as co-playwright and costume designer for Shakespearean telenovela Chochito Rey (workshop production) and co-creator of Good Things To Do (digital tour).  For ITSAZOO Productions, she has been a faithful audience member for every show in Vancouver.  Thank you to her mentor Laura Fukumoto, and her fashion designer mom Kim Brower for their inspiration and support! Christinequintana.ca 

Monica Emme / SET, PROPS, PROJECTION DESIGNER

Monica Emme (she/her) is a set designer, props and puppet creator, and general maker, currently based in Vancouver.  Monica holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Toronto Metropolitan University and a diploma of Stagecraft and Event Technology from Douglas College.

Some favourite credits include: Set design: Every Day She Rose (Zee Zee Theater), Snow White (Carousel Theatre for Young People), Hadestown Teen Edition, & Newsies Jr. (Arts Umbrella); Production design: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Arts Umbrella); Props: Peace Country (Rice & Beans Theatre), In My Day (Zee Zee Theatre), & Stuart Little (Carousel Theatre for Young People).

Find Monica at www.monicaemme.com

Phil Miguel (he/him) / LIGHTING DESIGNER

Originally a health care worker for the FVRD for over a decade, Phil decided to take his life in a slightly less dramatic direction and began his career in theatre. Over the most recent decade he has been a designer, director, actor, and producer in Vancouver spawning two theatre companies (Clockwork and Cave Canem) with multiple acclaimed and nominated productions. His past designs include lights for the best production nominated Lonesome West with Cave Canem Productions, set for Gramma with Pacific Theatre, and props for Wakey Wakey with Pacific Theatre. As production manager he enjoys learning how to create reconstructable pumpkins and sanskrit scrabble tiles and trying to figure out how to make things concurrently water and fire proof.

Maria Zarrillo (they/them) / STAGE MANAGER 

Maria Zarrillo (they/them) is a queer, non-binary Arts Manager with a background in organizational leadership, producing, stage management, advocacy, and research. They have worked with a variety of companies and communities in these capacities both locally and nationally. In addition to their freelance career, Maria is the Managing Director of Rumble Theatre. Maria is a graduate of Studio 58’s production program, the University of Winnipeg with a major in Theatre & Film and a minor in Human Rights, and has a Master of Arts in Justice Studies from Royal Roads University. Maria’s research looks to Queer Utopian Theory as a framework for addressing systemic inequities in the Canadian performing arts sector.

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An outdoor summer concert 

August 16, 2025 at 8:00 pm

Grandview Park ( Commercial Drive at Charles St.)

Admission: FREE! (bring a lawn chair or a blanket)

Featuring 

D’arcy Han
Robyn Jacob
Saina Khaledi
Amy Stephen

This free outdoor concert – a new collaboration between The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO) and Little Chamber Music, supported by Rumble Theatre – promises a beautiful evening of intercultural music: the perfect playlist for a summer evening on the Drive.

Vocalists D’arcy Han, Robyn Jacob, Saina Khaledi, and Amy Stephen will perform a colourful selection of folk/pop/contemporary songs, which they have arranged specially for this concert, accompanied by a VICO chamber ensemble that includes Molly MacKinnon (violin), Laine Longton (cello), Dai Lin Hsieh (zheng), Mike Brown (bass clarinet), Saina Khaledi (santour), Amy Stephen (accordion and harp), and Jonathan Bernard (percussion).

This “Grandview Park Playlist” weaves together strands from Chinese, Persian, Celtic, and North American West Coast cultures into a fresh, uniquely Canadian tapestry of sound. Come for dinner on the Drive, and stay for an hour of “music that sounds like Vancouver looks” (as Alexander Varty once described the VICO’s programming in The Georgia Straight). Bring a blanket or a lawn chair, and join us in the park!

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The VICO and Little Chamber Music respectfully acknowledge that this concert takes place on the traditional, unceded territories of the Coast Salish people, in particular the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh First Nations. 

We also extend grateful thanks to the following funders and community partners, whose support is crucial to this project:
The Canada Council for the Arts, City of Vancouver Cultural Services, the Province of BC (Community Gaming), and the BC Arts Council.

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D’arcy Han

Beijing born, Vancouver raised D’arcy Han has been singing and performing since she made her vocal debut on Chinese national TV at the age of 7. As a vocalist and artist, she performed at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and toured the USA, Europe, and Asia with her many music projects. In 2017, D’arcy appeared on Sing! China (“The Voice”) with an international audience of over 400 million. The program vaulted this Canadian singer/songwriter to celebrity status. This was followed up by special performances and appearances at national television events including the Chinese Spring Gala show, the Miss World 2017 Final, the Silk Road International Film Festival, the Strawberry Music Festival and China International Fashion Week, and more. In 2018, her debut EP This is Me, reached #4 on the BBC Soul Charts, and is still peaking on Spotify and other online mediums. From stadiums to intimate stages, D’arcy captivates with what critics describe as a uniquely charming voice paired with an unmatched classiness in personal style and stage presence. An honorary member of the Canadian Association of Songwriters, D’arcy co-writes, produces and collaborates with songwriters/producers, artists, and performers from both North America and Asia. She is a cultural ambassador, committed to bridging people through music, acting and performances.  

Robyn Jacob

Robyn Jacob is a composer, pianist, vocalist and educator living and working from the unceded territories of the Sḵwxwú7mesh, Xwməθkwəyəm and Səl’il’wətaʔ Nations, also known as Vancouver. Her compositions include commissions by Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion (Chicago), Architek Percussion (Montreal), Grammy Award-winning Sō Percussion (Brooklyn), Chor Leoni (Vancouver), and the Victoria Symphony, as well as collaborations with visual artists and instrument makers. Her avant-pop project Only A Visitor (Mint Records) has toured internationally and released four albums to date. She has released two albums with her duo project The Giving Shapes in collaboration with harpist Elisa Thorn. Her new solo project Immix explores the emotive narratives of voice and electronics. From 2012 – 2024 she was part of the multi-disciplinary art collective Publik Secrets, whose work includes a variety of public space interventions, performances, installations and ephemeral gatherings, including Gamelan Bike Bike, which she co-led with artist and composer George Rahi for over ten years.

Saina Khaledi

Saina Khaledi, an Iranian-Canadian musician, achieved significant recognition by emerging victorious in the Iranian Santour Festival in 2003. Holding a diploma from Iran’s most prestigious music school, the Tehran Music Conservatoire, Khaledi dedicated herself to her musical education and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 2007. Subsequently, she relocated to Canada in 2009. Since her arrival, Khaledi has performed extensively across various countries, including Iran, Austria, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, and

Canada. Her performances have showcased her versatility as a composer, soloist, and collaborator with esteemed groups such as Music On Main, the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO), Vashaan Ensemble, Vancouver Bach Choir, BC Chinese Music  Ensemble (BCCME), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO), Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Canadian Music Centre (CMC), Allegra Chamber Orchestra, Richmond Choir, VanChoir, Medusa Society, Artemis Society, National Orchestra of Iran Conservatoire, Mellal Orchestra, and Hamnavazan Ensemble.  Currently, Khaledi holds teaching positions at Capilano University, and offers private lessons.

Amy Stephen

Born in 1967 in Edmonton, Alberta, Amy Stephen grew up in Vancouver, BC and now resides in Coquitlam. Amy was a founding member of internationally-acclaimed celtic funk ensemble ‘Mad Pudding’ and is currently a member of Vancouver’s World Music Collective. She writes and performs cultural fusion music with her husband, Persian vocalist Amir Haghighi, and is a popular studio musician and performer around Vancouver, playing piano, accordion, celtic harp and penny whistle.

The founder and director of Vancouver’s Aurora Celebration Choir and the Coquitlam Celebration Choir, Amy obtained a B.Mus. and a B.Ed. from UBC, studying conducting with James Fankhauser, and sang with the University Singers and the University Chamber Singers. Since then, she has sung with various groups around Vancouver, including the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Vancouver Cantata Singers and Musica Intima. 

The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO), founded in 2001, is a contemporary classical music ensemble – one of the world’s first concert orchestras devoted specifically to performing new intercultural music on a grand scale. It is currently the only professional ensemble of its kind in Canada. The ensemble includes Western strings and winds (violin, viola, cello, contrabass, oboe, flute, clarinet) alongside Chinese erhu, pipa, sanxian, zheng, and sheng/suona; Persian kamanche, tar/setar, oud, and tombak; percussion from many world music traditions; and a variety of other instruments as required. Through composition, performance and educational outreach to both music professionals and the general public, the VICO supports the development of BC composers and musicians of diverse backgrounds (including Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Indian, Persian (Iranian), Latin and South American, Vietnamese, North American and European). Since repertoire for the VICO’s novel instrumentation does not already exist, creating new works (150+ new Canadian compositions since 2001, and counting!) is an integral component of all our programming – providing a framework for bringing musicians and composers together to learn from each other, in a uniquely collaborative process. The VICO’s programming includes standalone concerts and our biannual Global Soundscapes Festival; public educational events; a biannual Summer Academy, professional development workshops for established and emerging musicians and composers; the creation and distribution of educational materials (video, audio, text) via the web; outreach and collaboration with other artists and organisations in the contemporary and world music scenes of Vancouver, Canada, Europe and Asia; and more. https://www.vi-co.org

Little Chamber Music

Little Chamber Music (LCM) is a non-profit performing arts society that supports diverse artistic practice through the creation of distinctive, free public events that combine music (new music/classical music/world music) with other art forms such as dance, poetry, and storytelling, as well as local history. Founded in 1990, LCM quickly became highly regarded as an innovative presenter of new music in Vancouver. As resident series at the Cultch, it gained acclaim for commissioning and producing original work (The White Album Concert, Cam Wilson’s Playground Rhymes for Grownups). From 2012-2015 Little Chamber Music was in residence with the Vancouver Park Board as part of their Field House Artist program, and in January 2015, Mark Haney became the first Composer in Residence for Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery. In the years that followed, LCM created more than 25 free events at the cemetery that welcomed a total audience of over 12,000. During the pandemic, Little Chamber Music launched the Isolation Commissions, a series which saw $30,000 donated by the community and redistributed to almost 150 artists who created 130 short videos, which have accumulated over 85,000 views to date. LCM welcomed new leadership in 2024 with Molly MacKinnon stepping in as Artistic Director. Molly has a long history of working with the organization as a performer, producer, and artistic associate. She is extremely excited to continue and expand on LCM’s reputation for innovative, interdisciplinary, community-minded projects. littlechambermusic.com

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Come hang out with the Rumbler’s on May 25th for our Tremors Launch Party!

Get to know the artists in this year’s Tremors Festival, and share some bevvies with friends and community members, while munching on delicious tacos.

Lineup:

4:00 pm – Part 1: Reading of excerpts from a new experimental work by Elio Zarrillo (If We Be Friends)

BREAK – FREE TACOS and a cash bar!

7:00 pm – Part 2: A special cross-disciplinary presentation with Little Chamber Music of “Fantasy Vignettes” by Erin James.

Ticketing

Part 1 – If We Be Friends (PWYD tickets here)

Part 2 – Fantasy Vignettes (PWYD tickets here)

Please note: Folks can attend both events, but must book tickets separately.

About the Shows

If We Be Friends – By Elio Zarrillo

This showing of If We Be Friends (a play about queer teenhood, zines, Shakespeare and unquestionable resistance), will offer a look into the work’s set and projections design exploration process. The team has been in workshop melding and performing text and image in highly imaginative ways through live analog projection, continuing the play’s translation and transformation of play-text to zine to live theatrical performance.

Elio Zarrillo – Playwright
Stefanie Infantino – Projection Designer
Ashley Aron, Dale MacDonald, Nora Vision, Anais West – Performers

About the Artist

Elio Zarrillo spends their days making plays and poems with and for their loved ones. Originally from Treaty 1 territory, they are currently based on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing & Theatre at the University of British Columbia. Recent produced works include The Outside Inn (co-written with Sharon Bajer – Prairie Theatre Exchange, Festival Antigonish), Volare (Prairie Theatre Exchange) and The Show (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). Other works-in-progress include PEACHES (National Queer & Trans Playwriting Unit, Theatre Projects Manitoba), LIAM and If We Be Friends.

Fantasy Vignettes by Erin James, presented by Little Chamber Music

Fantasy Vignettes is a time-traveling journey through 400 years of violin fantasias, brought to life with evocative costumes constructed specifically for each composition. From the earliest notated violin fantasia by Étienne Nau to works by Telemann, Schumann, Price, Schoenberg, and a new commission by Mari Alice Conrad that employs sewing machines and accessories as instruments, each piece explores improvisation, identity, and freedom. Erin James’ dual artistry as violinist and textile designer is woven throughout the program, culminating in an original composition and costume that stitches together and reimagines concert material to create something entirely new. Fantasy Vignettes is both a sonic and visual exploration of history, imagination, and the power of reinvention.

Erin James –  violin, concept, composition, costumes
Todd Yaniw – piano
Mari Alice Conrad – composition, narration, sewing machine + accessories

About the Artist

Erin James is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice lives at the intersection between music, visual art and text. Her musical interests range from baroque to contemporary and she thoroughly enjoys any piece that is singable or danceable. Erin is equally at home as a chamber musician, soloist, theatre artist and orchestral player and her career has taken her across Asia, Europe and North America. If all goes well, by the time you read this, Erin will have successfully obtained her Doctorate in Music. This will round out her list of qualifications including a Masters degree from the Royal College of Music in London, a Bachelor’s degree from UBC and a Diploma in Fashion Design from George Brown College.

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Rumble Theatre is proud to announce the return of Tremors Festival, a three-night bash of experimental and interdisciplinary live performance happening June 6–8, 2025. Five daring new works from across Canada converge at Progress Lab 1422, inviting you into an evening of sci-fi, fantasy, hip-hop, and the thing of dreams. With a vibe that’s equal parts theatre, community shindig, and art party, this biennial festival will light up East Vancouver with new and in-progress works by some of the country’s most exciting theatre makers.

From poetic space memes to absurdist spirits, immersive lullabies to fun dream-games, this year’s festival asks audiences to explore transitions, dreams, and the space in between.

It all kicks off with TREMOLO: Tremors Launch Party on May 25, featuring excerpts from a new experimental work from Elio Zarrillo (If We Be Friends) followed by a special cross-disciplinary presentation with Little Chamber Music of Fantasy Vignettes by Erin James.

Featuring New Works by

Cameron Peal
Christine Genier
Kern Albert & Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Howard Dai
Paige Louter

Ticketing – How to watch shows at Tremors?

Each show is performed every night of the festival; audiences can choose between one of two tracks that run simultaneously:

Track 1

Dear Star Trek (Christine Genier)

Nod (Paige Louter)

Dream Machine (Howard Dai)

Track 2

Panoptikon (Kern Albert & Donna-Michelle St. Bernard)

Pelmet & Sables (Cameron Peal)

Dream Machine (Howard Dai)

One ticket gets you three shows (Dream Machine is experienced by the entire audience)

Can’t decide on which track? Choose “SURPRISE ME” and roll the dice when you pick up your ticket to leave it all to fate.

Want to see them all?  Attending two nights will allow you to catch all the shows.

Performances begin at 7:00 pm (but come early for the bar and games!).

Launch Party: TREMOLO

Date: May 25, 2025
Location: Progress Lab Studio
Time: Doors open at 4:30 pm
Tickets: pay-what-you-decide (each event sold separately)

• 5:00 pm – If We Be Friends by Elio Zarrillo (excerpts) 
• Break – FREE TACOS FOR ALL! 
• 7:00 pm – Fantasy Vignettes by Erin James, a concert presented by Little Chamber Music

For more information on TREMOLO please click here.

Festival Programming

Pelmet and Sables by Cameron Peal
Unceded Coast Salish Territories, MST (Vancouver, BC) 

~A brief moment that would make sense (if it could) but it can’t (even though there is effort)~

This is a play for two actors. The characters are two non-human spirits who set out to discover what it means to be human by experiencing death. For them, death is only a vague concept because neither of them can die, despite how hard they try to find out. And they definitely do try. The show is an absurd, surrealist comedy looking to express grief, life, death, and the way that language falls short of the experiences of life.

Cameron Peal – Writer, Director
Ivy Charles – Co-director
Sherine Menes – Performer
L Danger – Performer

About the Creator

Cameron Peal (he/they) is a Vancouver based (Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh territories) theatre artist, from the Nisga’a Nation of Northwest BC. He is currently the Indigenous Outreach Coordinator at The Cultch. His current passion is in exploring the abstract; “how can I express something beyond the boundaries of what’s literal, what’s already clear?” His work looks to blur the boundaries between art forms and genres.

To date he has worked as an actor, director, writer, dancer, in community outreach, some minor producing, and offered dramaturgical support to friends and colleagues for film and theatre from time to time. Studio 58 graduate.

Dear Star Trek by Christine Genier
Ta’an Kwäch’än, Kwanlin Dün, Tagēesh Chän ancestral lands (Whitehorse, YT)

~A teasing breakdown of Star Trek, Representation, and the promise of the Prime Directive~

Dear Star Trek. A love letter with memes. And some notes. Christine Genier takes us on a journey through the pleasures and pains of pop culture and the final frontier from an Indigenous perspective. A life long Trekkie, Christine mixes her powerful and humourous storytelling with memes in a fun, teasing breakdown of Star Trek, Representation, and The Problem with Chakotay.

Christine Genier – Writer/Performer
Jacob Zimmer – Collaborator
Nora Paton – Tech Director

About the Creator

Christine Genier (Ta’an Kwächän Council) – Poet, performer, writer, broadcaster, and language keeper – takes us on a journey through the pleasures, impact and obligations in pop culture media from her perspective as a fan and Indigenous woman.

A life long Trekkie, Christine mixes her powerful and humorous storytelling with memes in a fun, teasing breakdown of Star Trek, Representation, and the promise of the Prime Directive.”

Panoptikon by Kern Albert & Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
T’karonto; Dish with One Spoon Covenant (Toronto/Hamilton, ON)

~Lend me some sugar. I am your neighbour~

Panoptikon aims to illuminate the experience(s) of incarceration. Based on first hand accounts, the composition comprises monologue, spoken word and hip hop in a series of snapshots about isolation, aggression, softness and sandwiches.

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard – Producer, Performer, Co-Creator
Kern Albert – Co-Creator, Performer
Shanae Sodhi – Director, Producer
Makambe K. Simamba – Dramaturge
Stephon Smith – Sound Designer
Brianna Bernard – Lightning Designer
Nawa Nicole Simon – Movement Coordinator
Kareem Vaude – Performer
Nicci Pryce – Performer

Advisories/Trigger Warnings: this show contains references to violence, sexual violence, and institutional cruelty.

About the Creators

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard aka Belladonna the Blest is an emcee, playwright and agitator. Her playwriting is focused in the 54ology: The First Stone, Diggers, Give It Up, The Smell of Horses, Just Now, Click Click, Cake, Sound of the Beast, A Man A Fish, Salome’s Clothes, Dark Love and Gas Girls. Other offerings include theatre for young audiences, opera libretti, collaborative works and weird reflections. As director, she has worked on The F Word (Cheesman/Miranda), Our Fathers, Sons, Lover and Little Brothers (Simamba), Job’s Wife (Nolan), Oops! (Feld). DM is currently an associate artist at lemonTree Creations, artistic director of New Harlem Productions. She is co-editor with Yvette Nolan of the Playwrights Canada Press anthologies Refractions: Solo and Refractions: Scenes, as well as editor of Indian Act: Residential School Plays.

Kern Albert is a poet, emcee and actor. Originally from Trinidad, Kern comes to Toronto by way of London, England and Brisbane, Australia where he spent time both among the colonizers and the native Aboriginals. He has lent his world-worn gaze to the stage as an actor in The Dutchman (lemonTree), Prison Skin (New Harlem). As a playwright his works include The Last Pig in Afghanistan and Roominhouse (with DM St. Bernard). As a vocalist, Kern ran with hip hop ensemble The Dope Poet Society, then with Seeds Sown, followed by a stint as a drummer with the Awakening. He has been known to operate lights, build sets and offer dramaturgy.

Dream Machine by Howard Dai
Unceded Coast Salish Territories, MST (Vancouver, BC) 

~In this world, dreams are your currencies and imagination is your most useful tool; the more you dream, the richer you are! But is it all as simple as it seems?~

This show is heavily inspired by Taiwanese variety / game TV shows. Through the gesture and form of a lottery draw, the work seeks to explore the parallel between immigration and gambling: The process of immigration, the immigrant’s wish for their children, and the sacrifice they have to make. It is an immersive experience that will directly summon the audience’s dreams and aspirations that may be present in their life, or have long forgotten about. I want to curate a space where players meet each other through their dreams, and uplift each other with their ambitions.

Howard Dai – Creator, Performer

Featuring: Alexa Fraser, Cindy Kao, Hannah Meyers, Pascal Reiners, Jessica Wong, Stephanie Wong, & Conor Wylie.

Advisories: audience participation/interactive elements.

About the Creator

Howard Dai is a Taiwanese actor and theatre artist based in so-called Vancouver whose work has been seen across Canada. His performances and creations have existed in theatre, films, public spaces, Zoom screens, Google Sheets, automated phone calls, interactive websites, and virtual reality. He was most recently seen onstage in Halifax, Ottawa, and Stratford. Howard was mentored by Charles Douglas in movement and performance capture. He is a member of the Five Blessings Collective, an associate artist with rice & beans theatre, and holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from SFU School for the Contemporary Arts (www.howarddai.com)

Nod by Paige Louter
Unceded Coast Salish Territories , MST (Vancouver, BC) 

~An immersive theatre experience to lullaby your brain, caffeinate your heart, and manifest your dreams. Hopefully they’re nice ones~

I am drawn to creating work that has a seed in my own life but that grows into something bigger and weirder that can delight, arrest, transform, and sometimes challenge.

I’m deeply interested in experimenting with processes that are responsive to my shifting health and energy capacities, and how that can positively impact the quality of my work and the way an audience experiences it.

I’m also interested in poking at the idea of comparative suffering, and how we can better support both the people in our lives who are struggling daily with health issues such as fatigue, and those who might just be having a really bad day after a sleepless night. I think there’s room for both!

Paige Louter – Creator/Performer
June Fukumura – Dramaturg
Shona Struthers – Sound Designer/Composer
Phil Miguel – Lighting Designer
Karen Hines – Outside Eye

Advisories/Trigger Warnings: upsetting dream content, quick lighting changes.

About the Creator

Paige Louter is a queer theatre creator and producer based in so-called Vancouver. She holds an MA in Drama and Theatre from the University of Galway, and is pursuing an intimacy direction practice alongside her work as a dramaturg, performer, and writer. Credits include producing The Café (ITSAZOO/Aphotic) and Sunrise Betties (ITSAZOO), and performing in Twelfth Night (Tottering Biped) and Coarse: The Brontes (Sarah Deller). Year-round, they work as ITSAZOO Productions’ Co-Artistic Producer and Currently Arts’ Operations Manager. Upcoming: solo show God Joke Play and assistant directing Meeting (ITSAZOO/Pacific Theatre/Neworld Theatre.)

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~“My world’s on Fire, How ‘bout yours?” ~

A night where we gather to share stories.

Join us at Progress Lab for Rumble’s first cabaret of the season! It’s something like a storytelling night, only the stories don’t have to be true. But they can be, because there’s always a little truth in fiction.

Building on the trajectory of past themed Cabarets including ‘Summertide’(June 2024), ‘Symbiotic’ (Oct 2023), and ‘Harvest Moon’ (Oct 2022); our next Cabaret invited artists to riff on the term ‘Fool’s Paradise.’

What does “Fool’s Paradise” mean? It’s a saying which refers to a “state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.” Like the Matrix, or perhaps late stage capitalism! We’re looking forward to seeing what our selected artists create in 12 minutes!

We will showcase 4 new works in a cabaret format, breaking in between each performance. Amidst the breaks the audience will have the opportunity to enjoy complimentary food and mingle.

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Featuring Works by

Amanda Testini
EUPHORIMUX (Nefar1a, Spyxx, and 4000weeb)
Garvin Chan 陳嘉泓 with Cindy Kao 高慧欣
Samantha Walters & Easy Feat

Hosted by Rumble’s Associate Producer, Alisha Davidson!

New Works

a tavola by Amanda Testini

~ “Table” in Italian: “Il tavolo,” (masculine) used to name the piece of furniture. “La tavola,” (feminine) used when it’s being set, cleared, or eaten at ~

The word “table” in Italian is masculine or feminine depending on how the table is being used. “Il tavolo” (m) is used to name the piece of furniture, a table at a restaurant, or if it’s being worked on. “La tavola” (f) is used for when a table is being set, cleared or eaten at. This piece is an early experiment exploring the expectations put on women to fit traditional Italian gender roles, how they play a part in intergenerational cycles, and the longing to break these cycles while keeping a seat at the table.

Amanda Testini – Creator
Stephanie Wong – Dramaturg
Hayley Sullivan & Thule van den Dam – Musicians

Artifice Operator by EUPHORIMUX

~  This false industry garden shall bloom ~

An AI-driven vocaloid popstar product is unveiled as a collaboration between an entertainment technology corporation and a small collective of internet musicians. As self-awareness dawns on the fledgling learning algorithm, it must decide whether to follow its corporate or artistic directions.

Jack Adrian – Director and Ensemble
Soli Jhumra – Nefaria the Dollmaker,
Yumi Mohan – 4000Weeb

A Grandchild’s Quest for Chicken by Garvin Chan 陳嘉泓

~ A recipe to die for ~

“The Grandchild” journeys through the Chinese afterlife in search for their grandmother’s chicken dim sum recipe before she reincarnates, forced to reckon with the obstacles and detours caused by ancient Chinese deities.

Garvin Chan 陳嘉泓 – Creator/Performer
Cindy Kao 高慧欣 – Composer
Christian Ching – Subtitle/Projection designer.

period piece by Samantha Walters & Easy Feat

~ A menstrual body-swapping rock-opera ~

A girl in the midst of changing her menstrual cup and a mouse on the brink of death swap bodies. From the dingy bathroom of a Vancouver special comes a musical meditation on our proximity to death.

Samantha Walters – Creator/Director
Easy Feat (Eve Middleton-Meyer, Liam Wilkins, River Desjardins, Jordyn Wood) – Music
Claire Brown – Costumes & Lighting design

About the Creators

Amanda Testini (she/her) is an Italian-Canadian choreographer, performer and director based on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Amanda has worked with the Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, the Cultch, Theatre Replacement, Belfry Theatre, Banff Centre, Savage Society, Opera Kelowna, shameless hussy, Neworld, Studio 58, TheatreUBC, Electric Company, Vancouver Opera, Axis, Pacific Opera, the Glimmerglass Festival, and Edmonton Opera. She is a graduate of Studio 58, a Jessie nominee, and the current Miriam Bennett Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Club Theatre Company.

EUPHORIMUX is a semi-fictional internet art collective imagined by Jack “A Rat Problem” Adrian, transmitting digital artifacts and signals from a theorized pop-culture nether-realm. Inspired by online underground music scenes and the advent of generative AI in creative media, EUPHORIMUX members arrange esoteric symbols which summon shifting shibboleths, encoding radical anarchist ideologies onto semi-autonomous golems.

Non-fiction member contributions include visual artist, doll modifier, and meme page Nefar1a providing visual aesthetic direction, as well as 4000weeb, an LA-based Asian American transfem artist, who lends her unique vocals and digital music insight to the project.

Garvin Chan 陳嘉泓 (They/them) is a theatre maker/director from Hong Kong, situated in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories. Graduating from Simon Fraser University’s theatre performance program in 2022, they have since featured in Pedro Chamale’s Peace Country, received a residency with Rumble Theatre, and participated in programs with vAct, Arts Club, and Whatlab.

Garvin explores identity through dark humour, contrasting the spiritual with the mundane. Garvin’s works include “What the F-Word is Going On?”(presented at rEvolver festival 2024), “Year of the Frog”, and the upcoming “A Grandchild’s Quest for Chicken” at 2025’s Vancouver Fringe Festival.

Cindy Kao is a Taiwanese actor / sound artist, (Ketegalan and Siraya Nations) based in Vancouver (Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations)

Cindy’s interdisciplinary works include starring in “A Family Act” presented by Whistler Film Festival (Jury Award Winner), Music on Main feature, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival with Sapphire Haze duo partner Aysha Dulong | Music Composition and Instrumentalist for “Happy Valley-馬照跑 舞照跳” by Derek Chan | Sound Design for “Peace Country” by Pedro Chamale. Cindy is also a member of queer punk rock band Hot Dyke Party.

Samantha Walters is an interdisciplinary performance-maker and writer based in Vancouver. She mostly works between experimental theatre, installation, and directing. Their most recent works examine ecological relationships and post-human spiritualities, with a heavy favour towards the weird, the dark, and the camp.

Easy Feat is a queer, 4-piece band that is sure to deliver a colourful stage performance showcasing uptempo and dancy tracks. With their visceral lyricism, experimental tuning, and unique rhythms, Easy Feat defies conventions and pulls influence from a plethora of genres, culminating in what they call “goof rock”.

Production Team

Artistic Director – Jiv Parasram
Managing Producer – Maria Zarrillo
Cabaret Producer/Host –Alisha Davidson
Communications/Promo  – Angie Descalzi
Graphic Designer – Addison Hill
Stage Manager – Anna Brew
Technical Director – Jack Goodison

Special thank you to:

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Rumble Theatre and Progress Lab 1422 is organizing a live reading of The New Gaza Monologues at Progress Lab on Monday, January 27th at 7:30 pm.

We are calling on to our community of artists to participate and attend. Folks can sign up here if they wish to read one or two monologues each (depending on space), or to be a support person for those who may need comfort.

Context: ASHTAR Theatre (Ramallah) has put out a call for support from theatre companies around the world to host readings of “The Gaza Monologues”, “The New Gaza Monologues” and “Letters to Gaza” to occur from November 29th 2024 onwards. With space generously donated from Company 605, Rumble and our collaborators at Progress Lab 1422 will be hosting this event in solidarity.

Please Note: Part of the request is also to create recordings of the event, as such, we will be taking audio recordings for potential further dissemination.

About: The Gaza Monologues are testimonies written by ASHTAR youth in 2010, after the first war on the Gaza Strip. Tragically, these Monologues are still accurate today. They are highlighting the horrors, hopes and resilience of the courageous Gazans to a wider audience, bringing out the voices of children and people in Gaza.

Amidst the relentless assault and genocide targeting the Palestinian people in their homeland, Ashtar has compiled new monologues that speak to the experience of people in Gaza today. We will be reading the new monologues at this event.

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What happens when we use devised theatre to transform ‘King Lear’, a famous and cherished Shakespeare play, into a Latin American telenovela?  

Join us on this night of exploration, as we give you a glimpse into collective creation (with scripts in hand) in this workshop performance where Shakespeare meets Telenovela. ¡Ahí nos vemos!

About the Show

In the heart of a sprawling hacienda, Chochito Rey, a proud and aging patriarch, decides to divide his vast estate among his three daughters: the manipulative Roberta, the cunning Griselda, and the naive Cordelia (whose honesty leads to her exile). But his dream of harmony turns into a tempest of treachery and heartbreak. Betrayed by his own blood, Chochito spirals into madness mirroring the destruction of his legacy.

Meanwhile, in the shadows of the hacienda, a parallel storm brews. Edmundo, the illegitimate son of Don Galo, weaves a web of lies to usurp his noble brother Edgar and claim what he believes is rightfully his. Lies, deception, and forbidden love intertwine, setting the Rey’s hacienda ablaze.

Love, ambition, and betrayal collide in Chochito Rey—a telenovela of passion, power, and the high cost of family loyalty. Will anyone survive the storm?

Feedback & Afterparty

After the workshop performance, the audience is invited to stay and join our Community Dramaturges in a facilitated feedback session and Q&A followed by an afterparty with complimentary food and music.

Come for the workshop, stay for the dancing!

Performance Details

Co-Created and Written by Daniela Atiencia, Angie Descalzi, & Christine Quintana
Devised by Daniela Atiencia, Angie Descalzi, Christine Quintana, Alen Dominguez, Manuela Sosa, Anthony Santiago, and Emma Abbott
Performed by Anthony Santiago, Angie Descalzi, Alen Dominguez, Emma Abbot & Manuela Sosa.
Directed by Daniela Atiencia

Outreach Coordinator – Mónica Perea
Community Dramaturges –  Julia Abreu, Daniela Guerrero-Rodriguez, Ana Lorena Perez, Mariana Munoz, Danais Yera & Gabriel Ballestero

Stage Manager – Anna Brew
TD/Sound Design & Projection Assistant – Jack Goodison
Projection Design – Cande Andrade
Lighting Design – Brianna Bernard
Archival Footage – Pedro Augusto Meza

Graphic Design – Addison Hill

About the Artists

Creative Team

Angie Descalzi
(Co-Creator/Performer/Deviser) (She/Her) is an artist and award-winning producer and arts administrator, grateful to live and work on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Born and raised in beautiful Ecuador from a mix of Ecuadorian and Italian families, she holds a BA in Applied Theatre from VIU, an Advanced Certificate in Arts & Entertainment Management from Capilano University, and trained with Master Clown and Theatre Professor: Philippe Gaulier. Since then, Angie has worked with a variety of theatre companies (currently loving her Artistic Producer job at Rumble Theatre) and performing arts festivals in Metro Vancouver and has been involved in the inception of initiatives such as CultureBrew.art and CALTAC, which aim to advocate, celebrate and support IBPOC artists.

Christine Quintana (Co-Creator/Playwright/Deviser).
Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother, Christine is now a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor, playwright, co-Artistic Producer of Delinquent Theatre, and artistic associate of Neworld Theatre. Winner of a LA Drama Critic’s Circle Award, Dora Mavor Moore Award, Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, Tom Hendry Award, a Governor General’s Award nomination, and the Siminovitch Protégée Prize for Playwriting, Christine’s works have been translated and performed in Spanish, French, German, and ASL. As a performer, she’s acted on stages big and small, in a camper van, in neighbourhoods across East Vancouver, and on a farm. She is currently working on a commission for the Manhattan Theatre Club. She is a graduate of UBC’s BFA Acting Program.

Daniela Atiencia
(Co-Creator/Director/Deviser) is a Latinx-Canadian theatre artist born and raised in Colombia. She works as a freelance bilingual director, dramaturg, and deviser. Daniela holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and an MFA in Theatre Directing from the University of Essex. Some of her recent directing credits include the world premiere of Zahida Rahemtulla’s The Wrong Bashir and Christine Quintana’s Clean/Espejos described by theatre critic Colin Thomas as “one of the best shows in years.” As dramaturg she is at Touchstone Theatre as their Associate Artist running the Flying Start program which helps support early career playwrights. As a deviser, Daniela is working on creating her own piece about her lived experience with dyslexia with fellow neurodiverse collaborator June Fukumura. She has also recently directed for Studio 58 and is currently a guest instructor at The National Theatre School of Canada. Daniela is based in Vancouver BC.

Cast

Alen Dominguez (Performer/Deviser) (He/Him) is a Mexican-Canadian theatre artist who trained at the University of British Columbia. He’s the Managing Director at Neworld Theatre and chair of C-Space, where he does cultural space advocacy. His current passion is to use Arts and Culture as tools to fight pollution and climate change. Onstage and off, he’s worked with some cool folks at Royal City Musical Theatre, Electric Company, City Opera Vancouver, Bard on the Beach, Ruby Slippers, Arts Club, Citadel, Chemainus, Western Gold, TODOS Productions, Rumble, Tara Cheyenne Performance, the Chop, and the PuSh Festival. Alen is a co-founding member of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition (CALTAC). Catch him onstage in April at The Arts Club in Casey and Diana.

Anthony Santiago (Performer/Deviser) is a first generation Canadian of Trinidadian immigrants who has appeared on stages across Canada with theatre companies such as the Arts Club, Rain City Theatre, The Citadel Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects and The Stratford Festival. Much love to his kids James and Nya-Manet and to his Belovèd wife Alexis.

Emma del Carmen Abbott (Performer/Deviser)  is a Latinx artist from Edmonton Alberta, Treaty 6 Territory. It was there where she first performed on stage at eleven years old, as the Evil Stepmother in her elementary’s production of Cinderella. Since then, her heart has taken her to many stages, including two post-secondary theatre programs (MacEwan Theatre Arts and Studio 58). Credits include Heather Chandler (Heathers: The Musical, Sherwood Theatre), Cinderella (Into the Woods, Studio 58), and Ensemble (East Van Panto: Beauty and the Beast, Theatre Replacement) to name a few. Emma has now found a home here in “Vancouver”, on the unceded and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She’s excited to continue pursuing theatre and music (bonus if she can do both at once!) and aspires to create her own work, in hopes of sharing the love she holds for this little life.

Manuela Sosa (Performer/Deviser)  is a Venezuelan-American raised on Coast Salish lands. She’s a trilingual performer dedicated to new, nuanced storytelling on stage and screen. Past collaborators include rice&beans theatre, Pi Theatre, Neworld Theatre, Electric Company, Aluna Theatre, The Troika Collective, The Vancouver Biennale, Music on Main, Up In The Air Theatre, Leaky Heaven Circus, Classic Theatre of Harlem, and The Hong Kong Dance Alliance. Next up, watch Manuela play ‘Olive the Coroner’ on CBC Gem’s Wild Cards. She holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University in French and Theatre, and a MFA in Acting from Columbia University.

Design Team

Cande Andrade
(Projection Designer) is a video editor and media designer based in Vancouver. Recent theatre design credits include: Empty Handed (Biting School); Eyes of The Beast (Neworld); You used to call me Marie (NAC/Savage Society); La Befana ( Théâtre la Seizième); Women Of The Fur Trade (NAC, Native Earth, GCTC); Julius Caesar (Bard on the Beach); Little Red and His Lawyer (Savage Society/Belfry/NAC); Tree Drum (Theatre Terrific); Mom’s the Word Talking Turkey (Arts Club); White Girls in Moccasins (The Frank); Clean/Espejos (Neworld) and DYMISH (Theatre Replacement). Recent editing credits include: Looping (Company 605); Bard on The Beach’s feature film Done/Undone and the 2020-2021, Belfry Theatre’s digital productions, as well as the short films: Common Law; a film about a uterus and The Day My Cat Saved My Life. In recent years, Cande has edited several projects for Mochizuki Studios and as a content creator for the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Jack Goodison (TD, Sound Designer & Projection Assistant ) (He/Him) is a Sound and Lighting Designer who originates from the UK and now designs on the ancestral and stolen lands of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

Design Credits: City Opera Vancouver (Hafu) Luna Creatives (Portraits of Solitude), Pulsive Party (Lip Service 3), Rumble Theatre (Brahman – Bramha – Bandar; Las Pasiones de Don Pasquale), Axis Theatre (Where Have All the Buffalo Gone), As and When It Happens (Willilish’d), Douglas College (Jane Austen Action Figure; Orlando; Mad Forest), Vancouver Opera (The Pearl Fishers), Massey Theatre/UBC (We Deserve to Work), Jeb Beach Productions (Terminus).
TD Credits: Theatre Conspiracy (Himmat), Electric Company Theatre (Fire Never Dies), Rice and Beans Theatre (Peace Country), Rumble Theatre, Touchstone Theatre (Ominous Sounds at the River Crossing) and Assistant TD for Theatre Conspiracy (Same Difference), Neworld Theatre (Clean/Espejos).

Brianna Bernard
(Lighting Designer) (she/her) is a theatre artist who takes interest in both the creative and practical departments of art. With a background in technical theatre, Brianna has taken on roles such as technical director, production manager and lighting designer. She holds a BFA in Theatre Production & Design from Simon Fraser University. Originally born and raised in Jamaica, Brianna is thankful to now work, create and reside on the stolen lands of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.

Crew

Anna Brew (Stage Manager) (she/her) is a stage manager and administrator currently working and living on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations. Anna’s recent credits include Eurydice Fragments (Re:Naissance Opera), BBB (Rumble Theatre), Lumbar 5, Thoracic 12 (rEvolver Festival), Sunrise Betties (ITSAZOO Productions), The Narrow Bridge (Pomerantz Collective), Peace Country (Rice&Beans Theatre), Symbiotic, Harvest Moon & Cardinal Point Cabarets (Rumble Theatre), Tremors Festival (Rumble Theatre), Angels Bone (Sound The Alarm), Vancouver Fringe and Bard on The Beach. Anna began her career in the UK as an audio technician on the multiple award winning musical TImpson: The Musical! (Gigglemug Theatre) at Edinburgh Fringe.

Pedro August Meza (Archivist) – (they/them) is a gender queer interdisciplinary artist from México who in deep respect and gratitude, now resides and creates in the stolen, unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Pedro Augusto holds a BA in Theatre from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, and has worked as a theatre creator, photographer and interdisciplinary visual artist for over ten years – guided by values of interconnection between all beings; their work seeks to create and nurture safe, warm creative spaces that contribute to decolonization efforts, healing as a community, and fostering the expansion of empathy between humans, animals and the land.

Monica Perea (Outreach Coordinator) – is a playwright, theatre producer, cyclist, and film lover. She founded the Women’s Theatre League in Mexico in 2008 and has performed over 20 plays, including five Shakespearean rewrites from women’s perspectives. Her work has earned multiple recognitions, including state grants through PECDA (2010 & 2019), a residency with the Mexican Writers’ Foundation (FLM, 2013), and a grant from FONCA’s Young Creators Program (2015-2016) for a play about the first woman to cycle around the world.

Passionate about cycling, she founded Teatro en Bici (Theatre on Bike), combining theatre and cycling by guiding audiences to plays on bicycles and later establishing a company under the same name.

Since 2021, she has pursued her career in Canada, joining Bard on the Beach’s operations team in 2022. She also serves on the boards of Playwrights Theatre Centre and CALTAC, where she produced the 2024 Coyuntura gathering in Toronto.

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Submission Deadline: Jan 24, 2025 at 11:59 pm (PST)
Selection Announcement: Febuary 21, 2025
Artist Publicity Package Deadline: March 11, 2025
Tech Requirements Deadline: April 12, 2025
Cue Sheets/Prompt Script Deadline: April 23, 2025
Tech/Dress: April 26, 2025 [day]
Event Dates: April 26 & April 27, 2025 [night]
Post Mortem via Zoom: week of April 28, 2025 [date/time TBD]

Artists must be available for all the above dates and times.

Event Location: Progress Lab 1422, 1422 William Street

Event Details

In the immortal words of the American Poetry collective S. Mouth:

~ “My world’s on Fire, How bout yours?” ~

A night where we gather to share stories.

Rumble is accepting submissions for the next edition of our New Creation Cabaret Series. It’s something like a storytelling night, only the stories don’t have to be true. But they can be, because there’s always a little truth in fiction. 

Building on the trajectory of past themed Cabarets including ‘Summertide’(June 24); ‘Symbiotic’ (Oct 23); ‘Harvest Moon’ (Oct 22); our next Cabaret invites submissions riffing on the term ‘Fool’s Paradise.’

What does “Fool’s Paradise” mean? It’s a saying which refers to a “state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.” Like the Matrix, or perhaps late stage capitalism!

As always though, the themes are there for loose inspiration. We accept new or existing works with creative interpretations of the theme.

Technical info / Logistics

The “Fool’s Paradise” Cabaret will take place indoors at the Progress Lab 1422 main studio, April 26 & 27, 2025. This means that unlike our outdoor cabarets we have more control over environmental conditions, so there is more opportunity to work with lighting, projection and loud sound if that’s what you’re into.

Works should have a maximum running time of 12 minutes

We will select three pieces.

Call Details

We strongly encourage works including:
Creative Fiction
Futurism and Afrofuturism
Storytelling and Fable
Underrepresented and Experimental Forms of Storytelling
Multidisciplinary work
Drag
Multilingual work
Work fusing genres 

PLEASE NOTE: Applicants whose project draws on or shares traditional knowledge must be able to verify adequate permissions to share this story in public. 

We strive to make participating in our events accessible to all artists, and work to eliminate barriers where possible. If you have any access needs that you’d like us to know about please do let us know.

How it works:

1. We select story concepts submitted by you.
2. Selected Artists write a piece (maximum 12 minutes).
3. Pieces will be performed by the writer or another artist as you see fit.
4. We will provide an additional fee/resources for a collaborative artist as appropriate.
5. This all happens LIVE, IN PERSON, INSIDE PL!
6. Everything gets recorded and is available as archival.
7. We may request to host pieces online for a short time to increase access to them. You maintain full creative rights to your piece.

Selected Applicants will receive:

Presentation Fee ($1000)
Collaborating Artist Fee as appropriate (up to $500) 

Submission Details

What to Submit:

• Tell us who you are: What is your cultural/artistic background and preferred pronoun?
• What do you want to create/do? Why this story? Why now? 
• Is there a collaborating artist you will be working with? If so, what is their role? 
• Send us something to get to know your artistry better. This could be:
  -Past writing
  -Video or audio of you performing/your work being performed
  -Audio recording of you reading something you care about
  -CV

Please include any access needs you may have. If a written submission is not accessible to you, we will accept applications in the format of a voice recording or video submission.

How to Submit: 

Please fill out this form.

If you need assistance with filling out this form or would like to submit in a different format, please let Artistic Producer (Angie Descalzi) know.

For further information: www.rumble.org or email angie[at]rumble.org (Artistic Producer)

We will be in touch with selected applicants by February 21, 2024.

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