(she/her) I am a Tkaronto based multidisciplinary performing artist, facilitator, and researcher of Lithuanian, Italian, British, and Irish ancestry. My work explores climate justice, climate emotions, decolonization, caregiving, ritual, land connection, intergenerational relationships, and the voice. 

 

I have made performances in basements, alleyways, bathrooms, schools, theatres, lofts and online, and have worked with Wild Rose Metis Productions, Theatre Direct, Next Stage Theatre Festival, The Centre for Indigenous Theatre, The Arts Club, Soulpepper, Jumblies, Brave New Play Rites, Convergence Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Theatre Gargantua, Pleiades Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, SummerWorks, Playwright’s Theatre Centre, and others. I co-ran the artist-driven performance company the blood projects with Lou Jurgens from 2009-2017, co-creating immersive, site-specific performances in intimate spaces.

 

Currently working on a research-creation PhD in Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies at York University, my research explores caregiving in climate collapse/polycrisis, performance as a place to imagine and rehearse emergent liberatory futures, and settler-Indigenous collaboration. I’m a Graduate Research Associate at Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology.

 

With a BFA in Acting from York and an MFA in Theatre and Creative Writing from UBC, I teach Voice and Speech at The Centre for Indigenous Theatre and York, and have facilitated and worked across so-called Canada. Recently, I hosted a Long Table discussion exploring caregiving as lived experience and structural condition as part of Curating the Village: Open Sessions, performed a grief ritual co-created with Shira Leuchter about living and mothering in the polycrisis at FADO Performance Art Centre, and was a co-facilitator on Unspoken Futures with Dr. Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston and Lisa Marie DiLiberto. I am currently dramaturging Tai Amy Grauman's play Rose and James: A Scottish Metis Love Story. 

 

I write an occasional newsletter, host seasonal, community-driven writing circles, and explore collective land-tending at Black River Farm and Wilderness.​​  

 

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