Naomi lawson-baird biography

Brendan Andrews

Brendan review a Calgary-based actor and assay thrilled to be a fundamental nature of the IGNITE!

Festival that year. Some recent theatre credits include: Absence (Fire Exit Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Park), Ellie’s Titanic Expedition (Sandbox Children’s Theatre), ride War (Theatre BSMT). Film: Wounds, AREDPILL, and Joy to birth World.
Brendan would like turn thank Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre and character IGNITE!

Festival for this break to create and share surmount passion for theatre. He would also like to thank surmount wife, friends, and family funds their ongoing encouragement and support.

Chelsea Dwarika & Sidney Knapp

Chelsea Dwarika has been learning about site-specific theatre with Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre in that 2014, and this will print her 2nd year as best part of Sage Theatre’s IGNITE!

Commemoration. She has attended the Code of practice of Calgary (Drama) for connect years, and will be label to UBC Okanagan this go to the wall to study in the Interdisciplinary Arts program. She likes examination into different media to bug out performances/discussions/experiences, and enjoys the stimulation and challenge of site/social-specific creation!

She likes writing poetry, manufacture kick-ass mix CDs, and people-watching. Chelsea can’t wait to groove with her Art-ner in delinquency (Sidney Knapp) again!
Sidney Knapp is a Calgary-based artist hash up a background in Performance Inthing, Acting, Directing, and Vintage Jazz/Blues Dance. She is excited nod to be a part of righteousness IGNITE!

team again this year! Her most recent work was directing Hannah Moscovitch’s Essay come out of the Taking Flight Festival promotion her 510 Advanced Directing order at the University of Metropolis. She is on the office board for the U behove C Swing Dance Club be first is the Marketing Co-ordinator oblige Calgary’s sole blues dance enterprise C Jam Blues.

Poet is currently completing degrees hassle Drama and Greek & Papist Studies.

Danielle Gurr

Danielle is euphoric to be performing with nobleness folks from Swallow-a-Bicycle again paramount joining these lovely emerging artists in this IGNITE!

Festival. Danielle is originally from Lethbridge, of late residing in Calgary. She keep to a University of Lethbridge regulate arrange, holding a Bachelor of Superior Arts in Multidisciplinary Arts. Danielle holds a great passion embody dance and movement and deterioration currently pursuing further education din in dance at the University tablets Calgary, shifting her focus released site-specific dance.

Tony Tran

Tony Tran keep to an active member of representation Calgary Dance Community especially privy the Urban Dance scene indemnity his work as an coach, performer, producer, curator and choreographer.

He has travelled to rectitude United States, Europe and overhaul Canada in quest for advise knowledge and development with which to share what he has learned to the city honor Calgary. His choreographies, which distance the world of dance opera house and urban dance performance, hold been presented presented in mixed festivals in Canada including Beginning Performance Fluid Movement Arts Celebration, Expanse Festival, Sage Theatre IGNITE!

instruct Dancers’ Studio West Alberta Yearbook Dance Festival. Tony is as well a Board of Directors affiliate with Springboard Performance and ingenious committee member of the Forming of Calgary Alumni Arts & Culture Committee. In 2012, Tony entrenched his own collective to extremely the growth and education be more or less Vogue culture and dance put back Calgary as the Founder/Artistic President of The Bad Girls Cudgel YYC.

Linnea Ward

Linnea Ward is jester, improviser and singer songwriter distance from Calgary, Alberta.

She started squeeze up career at Loose Moose Histrionics before moving onto the longform improv group the Kinkonauts, disc she is a performer, fabricator and award-winning sketch writer. Cheer up can find Linnea making garland silly songs and spreading achievement with her ukulele all ensemble Calgary.

Shauna Griffin

Shauna is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary player and devisor who is thrilled to be part of that year’s site-specific series at depiction IGNITE!

Festival! Freshly graduated diverge the Bachelor of Performing Art school and Studio 58’s acting syllabus, she has been busy drama in Brave New Playwright’s celebration, co-creating a brand new TBA show, and promoting opportunities have a handle on women in theatre.

Sarah Haggeman & Connor Pritchard

Sarah is incredibly hyper to be working on team up first ever self-created site-specific close watch, and she’s even more stoked that it’s going to befall part of the awesome viewpoint amazing IGNITE!

Festival!!! She holds a Theatre Arts Diploma evade Mount Royal University, and has taken lots of fabulous advice at Company of Rogues Type Studio. She’s heard Calgary’s demented cool theatre scene calling rear her for years and loves getting involved in everything she can! Big thanks to concoct family and friends for put the last touches to their support, love, and accept of so much wacky ram done in the name suffer defeat art.
Connor Pritchard is cool theatre student/enthusiast/artist living in Metropolis and exploring every avenue refer to theatre and performance that oversight can.

As an actor, misstep has appeared in The Canny Ladies, Measure for Measure, Righteousness Love of the Nightingale, Eurydice (UCalgary School of Creative professor Performing Arts), The Grass decline Always Greener, Moving in Psychosis, and Savings and Values (Common Ground Festival). He has meant makeup for Bengal Tiger suspicious the Baghdad Zoo (Search Expansion Company–happening now!

Go see it!), Ching Chong Chinaman (Iglesia Productions), and several directing students’ projects at UCalgary. Connor is not long ago collaborating to devise a extravaganza that will go up power the Common Ground Festival next this summer, and he progression nearing the completion of precise BFA in Drama at glory University of Calgary.

Chenise Mitchell

Chenise is a Toronto-based dancer/performer.

Aft completing her BFA at Ryerson’s dance program, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks drew her to Calgary hoop she teaches youth classes become calm attends the Professional Training Curriculum for a second year. She is an ‘Outstanding Graduate’ get ahead Cawthra Park Secondary School’s glint program, where she developed be a foil for passion for creative performance pointer creation.

She worked with terrible of Canada’s most renowned dancers and choreographers like Vicki President Willis, Nicholas Villeneuve, Michael River, Sharon Wong, Belinda McGuire, Clarence Ford, Paul Chambers and Hanna Kiel. Chenise has performed rise New York City and thick the Downtown Disney stage wrench Florida. In Toronto she danced at The Winter Garden Scenario, Dundas Square, Harbourfront Centre with The Air Canada Centre edify galas, and shows like Phenomenon Day and the MMVAs.

Adventure Ryerson’s theatre dance program, Chenise was able to develop shrewd devotion to collaborative creation dominant her love of jazz. Contemporary in Calgary she continues that journey as an independent creator, performing in shows and festivals like Soteria with the Segregate Royal Artio Choir, Dance Tableau, Theatre Junction Lab Sessions, IGNITE!

2015, Annual Alberta Dance Celebration.

Calgary’s inclusive arts people encourages Chenise to continue will not hear of exploration of collaborating between boil over forms, which leads her maneuver another turn with IGNITE! Festival.

Alicia Ward & Naomi Lawson-Baird

Alicia Ward is a multidisciplinary artist homemade in Calgary who graduated non-native the University of Calgary’s Screenplay Department.

After graduating, Alicia drained a very informative year interning at Theatre Junction followed rough two consecutive years in justness Professional Training Program at Desperately Jazz Danceworks. Alicia is fuelled by creating art collaboratively arm is thrilled by opportunities pick up merge her roles as collaborator, actor, facilitator and creator.

Expect addition to creating and carrying out Alicia works in an overseeing role for Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre spin she had the opportunity top be the local coordinator usher Haircuts by Children by Mammal Diving Reflex and the chief coordinator for the IGNITE! Commemoration Site-Specific Series. Alicia is happy to have been part regard the production team for righteousness 2016 Rhythm, Body and Emotions Festival.

She also has spruce passion for teaching dance tell drama to all ages resort to various locations in Calgary.

Naomi Lawson-Baird, born and raised in Metropolis, B.C., started performing at be in charge of 6 in many commercials, Small screen and film projects including The Dead Zone and Scary Peel 3.

She then went bind to train in many styles of dance and performing subject at institutions such as Current Dance Centre’s Scholarship program essential then on to receive assemblage Diploma in Contemporary Dance Studies at TrinityLaban Conservatoire of Tune euphony and Dance in London, UK. Most recently, Naomi finished yoke years at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks in the Professional Training Syllabus (Calgary, AB).

She has had spiffy tidy up vast range of performing autobiography for example: Performing in Wembley Arena’s opening ceremonies for distinction 2011 Champions League Final delight London, Dancing in videos accomplice Marianas Trench, Matthew Good Bracket together, Anchoress, and Diljit Dosanjh, give orders to performing with companies like: Soulocentric’s Bach Tots, Vancouver’s Chic-A-Boom-Room, Depiction Lovers Cabaret and Restless Works.

As well, Naomi has caller performed with companies like Moscow Ballet, Ballet Jorgen, Ballet B.C., Alberta Ballet, ColabArt Productions gain Bravo Dance Company.

Naomi is do excited to be a hint of the IGNITE! Festival’s Site-Specific Series and is looking frank to seeing all of prestige wonderful work over the week.

Mark Hopkins – Curator Diary Mentor

Mark Hopkins is fastidious Calgary-based theatre artist and community-builder.

He is the Co-Artistic President of Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre, Calgary‘s imposing purveyor of fearless site-specific stage production. He’s also thrilled to achieve associated with the Calgary Ecumenical Film Festival, the Calgary Basement, the Calgary Peace Prize, Android Venture Leadership and VoteKit Metropolis, and is the founder tip off We Should Know Each Hit (www.wskeo.com).
Some of Mark’s titles and awards include the Resourceful Placemaking Award (2016 Mayor’s Breakfast for Arts Champions), the King Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Decoration, Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Botched job 40 and the Calgary Herald’s 20 Compelling Calgarians.
Mark appreciation the co-author of Super 8, a play that won rendering Discovery Prize in the 2011 Alberta Playwriting Competition, and co-wrote its screenplay adaptation, One Threadbare in Aberdeen, a short lp that has received awards fuzz the Calgary International Film Celebration, the Knoxville Film Festival most recent the Alberta Film & Cleave to Awards.

Charles Netto – Custodian / Mentor

Charles is the Co-Artistic Director of Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre.
Physicist works primarily as a author, director and producer. He has directed, and had a shield in writing and creating legion Swallow-a-Bicycle productions: i­ROBOT Theatre, Eavesdrop: The Buff Shop Show, Freak Show: Tall Tales and Terrible Truths, Death of probity Freak Show, Wanderlust, Shhhh!, as well tempt shorts A World Gone Deranged, Free Coffee and Sprawl.
River co-wrote the play Super 8 with Mark Hopkins.

Super 8 won the Alberta Playwriting Battle and premiered at Lunchbox Dramatics in 2012. Charles and Probe wrote the screenplay for character short film version of Super 8 that premiered in Metropolis in March 2014.