Co-Founders
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Anjela MagpantayAnjela is a first generation Canadian originating from the Philippines and graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Theatre Performance. She has worked internationally as a performer and collaborator in Hong Kong and across the UK. Recent credits include Walking at Night By Myself (A Wake of Vultures) The Wolves (Withaspoon Theatre and Pacific Theatre) Foreign Radical (Theatre Conspiracy), 12 Minute Madness (rEvolver Festival), Mis Papás (Rice&Beans Theatre) and Harvey (Western Gold Theatre). Anjela works freelance as an actor, director, clown, teacher and collaborator with various artists of different disciplines. Anjela is a Co-Founder of New(to)Town Collective and formally the Associate Producing Artistic Director of Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre. She is currently honing her leadership skills, specializing as a Cultural Consultant in multilingual Filipinx plays. Anjela lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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Davey CalderonDavey is a Filipino Canadian-American born in Oakland, California but grew up in Newfoundland. He has his BFA in Theatre Performance and Communication from Simon Fraser University.
He is an emerging actor, director and devising artist. His curiosities at the moment are within physical theatre based in Grotowski, devised compostion, Viewpoints, Practical Aesthetics, biographical theatre, and dance. He has studied with various artists such as Penelope Stella, Steven Hill, DD Kugler, Stephen Atkins, Raina von Waldernberg and Iris Lau. Recent performances include: Finders Keepers (Theatre in the RAW), Pipef@%! (Vancouver Fringe 2015), The Cold War (SFU Mainstage) and Two Birds on a Wire (Psyche Theatre). Recent directing credits include: KIND (Child): A Staged Reading (New(to)Town Collective) and Donut Holes in Orbit (Directing Projects 2013 & New(to)Town Collective). He is dedicated in exploring the shifting facets that compose a person’s identity (sexuality, morals, values, culture etc.) and the moral grey areas within social cultures through devised theatrical performances. Fun fact: Was seriously considering going into a seminary. Then art became my religion. |
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June FukumuraJune Fukumura is a Vancouver-based, Japanese-Canadian theatre artist with a BFA in Theatre Performance and a Certificate in Sustainable Community Development from Simon Fraser University.
In addition to being the Co-Founder of N(t)TC, June is the Co-Artistic Director of Popcorn Galaxies, an experimental theatre company interested in re-enchanting the everyday through unconventional site-responsive works. Popcorn Galaxies has produced over ten independent productions in five years and has been presented at Centre A, Vancouver Fringe Festival, and BC Culture Days. She is the current Artistic Producer Intern of Theatre Replacement and the Assistant Dramaturg at the Playwrights Lab at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her practice is a blend of experimental contemporary theatre, site-responsive and site-specific art making, embodied performance techniques, and community engaged theatre and education. She has a deep interest in playing with and subverting traditional theatrical conventions, often blurring the line between reality/fiction and performer/audience in her work. |
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Avyen von WaldenburgAvyen von Waldenburg is an American born director, actor, producer, writer, filmmaker and teacher. He obtained a Film Diploma from Vancouver Film School and studied theatre in New York City with Steve Wangh, Mary Overlie, Per Brah, Terry Knickerbocker, I Butu Miller, Annie B. Parson, Ethleyn Friend, John Farmanish-Bocca, Lisa Sokolov, and Presence Work with Raina von Waldenburg. After traveling internationally for a few years he moved back to Vancouver in 2010 to study Pochinko Clowning with David MacMurray Smith. Since then Avyen has been exploring the world of clown and Indigenous ways in British Columbia. His past studies have been amalgamating into a cohesive foundation for the Pedagogy he presents in his workshops. He has served on the board for Dancing on the Edge Festival, is a co-founder of New(to)Town Collective, the co-artistic director of Neon Elephant Circus Productions, and he can also walk on his hands for a very long time.
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