Vikki Anderson – Artistic Director
An award-winning theatre director, designer and producer, Vikki is the founder and Artistic Director of DVxT Theatre Company. Her work for DVxT includes the multi award-winning production of Ibsen’s The Doll House (commissioned translation by John Murrell), an award-winning production of Lynn Seifert’s Coyote Ugly starring Waneta Storms and the critically acclaimed Soulpepper production of Happy Days starring Martha Burns. DVxT also commissioned and premiered Adam Pettle’s Mosley and Me (in association with CanStage) and premiered A. Shay Hahn’s St. Christopher (with Theatre Passe Muraille). As a freelance artist, Vikki has collaborated with many theatre artists and companies, including: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, CanStage, Crow’s Theatre, Factory Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Loud Mouth Asian Babes, The National Arts Centre, Nightwood Theatre, Nightswimming, Smith-Gilmour, Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Theatre Direct, Theatre Passe Muraille and the Urge Collective.

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Naomi Campbell – Producer
Naomi Campbell is an award-winning producer of over sixty new Canadian works. She is the producer for DVxT and Nightswimming, a position she also held with Mammalian Diving Reflex from 1998 until 2007, and is currently the Industry Series Producer and Touring Liaison for the Magnetic North Theatre Festival. For four years she coordinated Obsidian Theatre's Apprenticeship Program and has consulted for Public Recordings, Zuppa Circus, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Crow's Theatre, b current and Aluna Theatre, as well as providing ad hoc assistance to dozens of theatre practitioners across the country. She has produced tours to the UK, Denmark, the US and across Canada. Naomi was also the Producer for the late Paul Bettis' Civilized Theatre from 1991 until 2005 and is leading an archival project to preserve his legacy, and the work of Theatre Second Floor and Civilized Theatre.

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Rupal Shah - Associate Producer
Rupal is a graduate of the University of Toronto. She has worked as a stage manager, production manager, administrator and venue coordinator for many Toronto cultural institutions including Hart House Theatre, the Touring Players Theatre of Canada, Solar Stage Children’s Theatre and Harbourfront Centre. Rupal recently spent four years as the Associate Producer for the Classical Theatre Project. Rupal is the South Asian Community Outreach Coordinator for Pleiades Theatre and the Apprenticeship Training Coordinator at Obsidian Theatre. Rupal’s year of professional development with DVxT Theatre has been generously funded by the George C. Metcalf Foundation.

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Bonnie Beecher – Lighting Designer
Bonnie has designed over 150 productions for theatre, opera and dance in Canada and internationally. She has ongoing creative relationships with many Canadian companies including the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, the National Ballet of Canada, Tarragon Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre Company, the Canadian Opera Company, Dancemakers, the Citadel, Tapestry New Opera Works, Volcano, Canadian Stage and Obsidian. Bonnie's international designs include La Traviata for the New Zealand Opera, Time and Other Matters for Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, and several new productions for the Mannheim Ballet in Germany. Bonnie has received 11 Dora Award nominations and has won the award twice, for Frida K. in 1995 and for Two Words for Snow in 2003.

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Jane Gooderham – Voice and Movement Coach
Jane is currently a Voice, Text and Dialect Coach for The Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Voice and Movement teacher on the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre at the Stratford Festival (6 seasons). Recent credits include: Voice and Text Coach on Oroonoko (Theatre for a New Audience, Duke Theatre, New York), Voice & Dialect Coach on The Lord of the Rings (Wallace/Mirvish), Homechild and The Syringa Tree (CanStage), St. Christopher (DVxT); Voice Coach on The Doll House (DVxT), Happy Days (DVxT/Soulpepper); Dialect Coach on The Producers and Mamma Mia (Mirvish Productions). Additional teaching includes Triple Sensation (CBC), Soulpepper Theatre Company, University of Illinois, The Grand Theatre, Fanshawe College, Centre Indigenous Theatre and the Centre for the Arts (Toronto). Trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Jane holds an MA Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama (London, England).

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John Gzowski – Sound Designer
For dance, John has composed for Dancemakers, Kaeja D’dance, Kate Alton, Michael Sean Marye and Julia Aplin, using instruments, electronics, bicycle bells, homemade instruments, found sounds, multi speaker systems and anything else he can get his hands on. He has performed Romany Gypsy music with the Altin Yildiz Orkestar, South African pop with Siyakha, Greek and Arabic music with Maza Meze, and North Indian flavoured jazz with Tasa. Previously for DVxT: Coyote Ugly (Dora Award for Sound), The Doll House (Dora Award for Sound) Happy Days and St. Christopher.

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Shawn Kerwin – Costume Designer
Shawn has designed sets and costumes in Canada, the United States and England. Her design work includes productions for the National Arts Centre, the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, Theatre New Brunswick, the Atlantic Theatre Festival, Neptune Theatre, the Blyth Festival, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, Mirvish Productions, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Young Peoples Theatre and Canadian Stage. Previously for DVxT: The Doll House (Dora Award) and St. Christopher (Dora Nomination).

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