Co-creator, Performer, Composer, Sound Designer

A Bi, Filipina artist in Tkaronto’s West End – Maddie has made her mark as Canadian theatre’s ever-playful sound designer and performance creator.

In the daytime, you can catch Maddie creating and shaping sound in iconic theatres across the country – from composing original music in the earliest stages of new work development, to tuning systems with live musicians and mid-sized casts.

Her hands are dirty with the creation of new music-forward work, such as Noche Buena with Jennifer Villaverde.

After the sun goes down, she moonlights as half of xLq – a queer pop performance duo who toured across the country with their daring, interactive theatre… and bizarre, grungy drag.

If you want to get specific and know more about Maddie’s past work and accolades, visit www.maddiebautista.com

Co-creator, Performer, Composer, Sound Designer

DEANNA H. CHOI (she/her) is a composer and sound designer splitting her time between Toronto and London. Her work is driven by curiosity and imagination, and she draws from her past as a neuroscience researcher, a classically trained violinist, and a recovering bookworm. She has designed live stage productions and installations across North America and her scores for film and television can be heard on Netflix, AppleTV, and CBC. Recent highlights include the Rhys Darby sci-fi comedy, Relax I’m From the Future, the conservation documentary Last of the Right Whales, the climate change documentary Apocalypse Plan B narrated by Jane Fonda, the spy thriller series Gray starring Patricia Clarkson, and the Toronto production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead starring Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd. She is nominated for a Canadian Academy Award, and is the recipient of the Pauline McGibbon, two Doras, and numerous other accolades. www.splitbrainsound.com @deanna.h.choi

Director & Co-Creator

Erin Brubacher is a director and multidisciplinary artist. Her work has taken her across the Americas and Europe, to contexts including The National Arts Centre (Ottawa), The Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), The Kitchen (NYC), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), The Edinburgh International Festival, and Theater der Welt (Germany). She is the author of In the small hours (Gaspereau Press), and the co-author of 7th Cousins: An Automythography (Book*hug), and a new novel forthcoming.

As a director, Erin works with writers, performers, musicians, visual artists, and nonprofessionals to collaboratively make live experiences. She is driven by the desire to make meeting places: for her, art is a framework that serves to gather people who might not otherwise be in a room together. www.erinbrubacher.com

Production Designer

Helen Yung is an inter/transdisciplinary artist. She has designed set, costumes, installations and spaces for the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the red light district theatre company, Open Heart Surgery Theatre Company, The Independent Aunties, Stand Up Dance, Dreamwalker Dance Company, TO Dance Community Love-In, and the Storm &nd Stress Company. She makes various kinds of exhibitions, installations, interactions, interventions and performances that have been presented around the world. Helen has received three Toronto Dora Theatre award nominations (Outstanding Scenic Design, Outstanding Lighting, and Outstanding Production). She also leads an experimental artistic research group called the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence.

Lighting Designer

Kaileigh has designed and managed for many of the country’s leading regional theatres and festivals. Collaborating and creating with teams across the country, including the Stratford Festival, Mirvish, Tarragon, Grand Theatre, Soulpepper, Charlottetown Festival and many more.

A two-time Dora nominee and nominee for the 2020 and 2023 Pauline McGibbon Award(s). Kaileigh is the founding General Manager of Lights On Stratford. She is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local 659 and is an instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada and the School of Performance in the Faculty of Communication and Design at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Production Manager & Sound Mixer

Michael is a sound designer and theatre artist based in Tkaronto. They are a graduate of the Production, Design, and Technical Arts program at the National Theatre School of Canada, and have worked professionally as a sound designer since 2013. Their recent projects include Making Spirits Bright with Globe Theatre and Elephant with bluemouth inc., as well as producing and sound designing the narrative podcast The Rest is Electric. Their interests are wide ranging, but of particular interest to them are queer stories as well as stories from other marginalized and under-served communities.

Stage Manager & Design Assistant

Michelle is a Cantonese-Canadian Stage Manager, Producer and Sewing Technician based in Toronto. She is thrilled to be one of the Design Assistants for Love You Wrong Time, and get to work with such a talented group of artists. Michelle was the Head of Dressing and Make-up for The Glenn Gould School’s Spring Opera 2023 - Flight at The Royal Conservatory of Music. She was the Stage Manager for Alphonse by Wajdi Mouawad at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022. She was one of the Co-Producers for My Korean Canadian Friend presented by Lunar Way Studio in association with The Toronto Fringe Festival 2021. Her previous works include Stage Manager for Alphonse in the park (2020 and 2021); Stage Manager for Elizabeth Rex directed by ted witzel and Head Cutter for Rochdale directed by Nina Lee Aquino.