A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain

Sophia Treanor is an MFA Directing student at the University of Victoria’s Department of Theatre. A director, performer and educator with over 13 years of professional experience in New York City, Sophia’s work has been presented at venues such as the Living Theater, Center for Performance Research, CAVE, the Glasshouse, Triskelion Arts, and Dixon Place. Her research explores the interplay between environment, perception, and consciousness, focusing on reconnecting body and land to envision liberated futures.

Sophia has directed productions such as Ephemera at the Harold Clurman Center, A Connected Place at The Gene Frankel Theater, and Just a B’Day Dinner at The Secret Theater. A close collaborator of Mary Overlie, creator of the Six Viewpoints theory, Sophia now leads the Mary Overlie Legacy Project. She has been teaching the Six Viewpoints theory internationally as a guest artist at Vienna’s ImpulsTanz, Switzerland’s Scuola Teatro Dimitri, Rose Bruford College, Teatro Vertico in Spain, Toneelacadamie Maastricht, Shanghai Theatre Academy and Earthdance.

Sami Ibrahim is a writer from London. His plays include: Metamorphoses, co-written with Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz, after Ovid (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2021); two Palestinians go dogging (winner of the inaugural Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award in 2019); Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her (2018 VAULT Festival, London); Iron Dome Fog Dome (The Yard, London, 2017) and Force of Trump (Brockley Jack).

He has worked at the Almeida Theatre as a member of their Creative Board, developing and producing From the Ground Up, a piece of immersive theatre.

Source: Playwrights Canada Press