Sarra Mirghani

Writer/Performer

Sarra Mirghani is a Sudanese-Egyptian interdisciplinary storyteller. Her body of work includes Porch, a play she wrote, directed, produced and debuted at the 2025 Montreal Fringe Festival. She also wrote, produced, and directed the film, Silk Salad & Ruby Vinaigrette. Her creative training includes IMAGO Theatre’s Nested Circles Residency, Sortie De Résidence with Le Recif Collectif, the Local Arts Residency with Kingston Grand Theatre, and the Fresh Pages Editorial Mentorship with carte blanche magazine. Recently, she worked with L’Asterisk as an Assistant Director and Assistant Producer for Représent, a non-fiction video series. Simultaneously, she co-Produced the Simmer Short Works Performance Festival."

Reem Boukhssimi

Writer/Performer

Reem Boukhssimi and Aladeen Tawfeek live and work in Montreal, where they are raising a family and writing together.
Reem is a Moroccan-Canadian writer interested in what people don’t always say out loud, the contradictions we carry, the desires we question, the parts of ourselves that don’t quite fi t anywhere. She writes from a place that is personal, but never simple.
Aladeen is an Egyptian-Canadian actor and director with over 30 years of experience. His work is grounded in a strong political lens, shaped by a lifelong engagement with questions of justice, power, and responsibility.
Their collaboration began at home, in conversation, and slowly found its way onto the page. What they write together sits somewhere between the intimate and the political, often blurring the line between the two. They are drawn to stories where the personal is not separate from the world, but deeply entangled in it.

Misha Nye

Writer/Performer

Misha Nye (he/him) is a UK-born theatre-maker whose work explores themes of masculinity, ecology, and care. Misha is excited by theatre that lives at the intersection of performance and protest, art and activism. With his company, Pyrite Theatre, Misha has written and produced ‘Kill em with Kindness' (2025), ‘soil’ (2024), and ‘Floodgate’ (2022) for the Montréal, Ottawa, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. With Fireworks, he is excited to be developing his new work, ‘Seeing Red’, for the Fringe this summer.

Marie Sotto

Writer/Performer

Marie Sotto is a non-binary Filipinx/Chinese Toronto based artist, performer and comedian. Marie's work spans comedy, theatre, and experimental, multidisciplinary forms of storytelling. Performance highlights include their Fringe Festival debut of “Siya: The Debut" (2025). A performance residency at Tranzac Club “The After Life Show” (2024) (a heartfelt comedy talk show tenderly exploring death), “Lotus Threads” (2024), Queer Asian Performing Arts Showcase, Carlos Bulosan Theatre’s HASA Theatre Collective Creation Incubator (2022) and the Comedy is Art Festival at The Theatre Centre (2022).

Madeline Savoie

Writer/Performer

Madeline Savoie is a playwright, performer, producer, and dramaturg completing a BFA in Performance Creation at Concordia University. Their writing has been featured in the NotaBle Acts and Plain Site Theatre Festivals in their hometown of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Madeline is currently the General Manager of Out of Body Performing Arts, having initially joined the company as a dramaturg and performer on “THE WAVES” and more recently serving as the co-producer of Out of Body’s “Cold Reads” series. Through their other company, Paper Sailor Theatre, they have developed projects such as “Personal Best,” “Exit Left at the End of the World,” and “MIXTAPE.” 

Leya Graie

Writer/Performer

Leya/Lore/Luke Graie (any/all) is a queer, genderfluid actor, writer and artist based in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. She graduated from Concordia University’s Theatre Program in 2018 and has been performing as much as she can ever since. Recent acting credits include Emma Parker in Contact Theatre’s Bonnie & Clyde (2018) and Gail in The Space Between (2021). Their most recent show, Still Alive—which they wrote, produced, and starred in—was nominated for Outstanding English Text and Most Promising Emerging English Producer Awards at the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival in 2023. His first musical, Fractured, with music and lyrics written by Danielle Keiko Eyer, received a staged reading at Playwright's Workshop Montreal in 2024. When Leya isn’t performing or writing, fae can be found dabbling in embroidery (Moonlit Cat Creations), making book reviews on YouTube (Leya’s Library), or studying a new language.

Rana Liu

Writer/Performer

Rana Liu is an Asian Canadian multidisciplinary arts creator, and lover of bagels & dumplings. Her principle goal is to (re)vitalize diversity and cultural understanding through shared perspectives. To not just tell these stories, but to celebrate them. Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, she’s worked and performed in Toronto, New York, Chicago, and Shanghai.

Katia Puritch

Writer/Performer

Katia Puritch (she/her) is a queer multidisciplinary artist, born and raised on the unceded territories of the WSÁNEĆ Peoples (Brentwood Bay, BC). A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Performance Dance BFA, she spent several formative years living and studying in Tkaronto (Toronto), where she began shaping her interdisciplinary approach to storytelling. Her work is deeply informed by movement, language, and lived experience, with a focus on queer narratives that explore identity, belonging, and connection. Now based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), she is developing her practice within a dynamic artistic community. Girlfriends and Girl Friends is her debut play.

Himmat Singh Shinhat

Writer/Performer

Himmat's artistic work draws on the traditions of his Punjabi Sikh heritage, the polyrhythms and counterpoint of diaspora, and the sensory kaleidoscope of living between worlds.

His practice brings together and blurs the distinctions between queer artist, writer, and psychedelic guide. His matières premières are story, sound, image, and lineage.

Milāpa, a memoir in development with Fireworks, moves in parallel between narrative and performance. It follows an arc of (re) discovery: how did I get here? What was the becoming, and how do I find my way back to my essence? Through the night, towards the light.

Panj, his interdisciplinary performance work, spins together storytelling, psychedelic rock fusion, and ancestral memory. Himmat's writing spans essay, memoir, and form-bending narratives — all of it concerned with what emerges from the crossing: of cultures, of generations, of états d'âme.

Frangelica Cajuste

Writer/Performer

Frangelica is a Canadian playwright, theatre director, and producer whose work is shaped by her love of music. Her Caribbean roots naturally find their way into her writing, where she explores themes of love, ambition, and family.

With a strong sense of historical curiosity and heartfelt storytelling, she brings these stories to the stage with warmth, all tied together through music and song.

She was nominated as an English-speaking producer with an emerging and promising career at the Montreal Fringe Festival 2025 (YES Employment & Entrepreneurship).

Ethan Stark

Writer/Performer

Ethan Stark (He/Him) is a trans artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a proud graduate of the Black Hole Theatre Company at the University of Manitoba. He also worked to write, direct, perform, and produce A Sliver of a Moment with three other artists through One Trunk Theatre’s artist in residence program. His play, “A Work in Progress” made its theatrical debut during Winnipeg’s 2023 Fringe Festival. It was met with wide critical acclaim and was the recipient of the Harry S. Rintoul Award’s honorable mention. His next fringe show, “The Ethan in the Room” was again nominated for the Harry S. Rintoul Award and listed on Ben Waldman’s list of best Winnipeg shows in 2024. He has been a member of Real Wheels playwriting circle and winner of the Village Conservatory new play presentation in 2025. His latest play “Our Father” was the 2026 recipient of the Dan Augusta Promise Prize. Ethan is incredibly passionate about casual queer representation in his work as well as creating safe and accessible spaces in any art he participates in!

Corbeau Sandoval

Writer/Performer

A shapeshifting storyteller of mixed identity based in Tiohtià:ke, Corbeau Sandoval (any/all) holds the firm belief that “art-making is world-making” (Ismatu Gwendolyn) and that the arts can be a “radical space of togetherness” (Jordan Tannahill). With her work informed by anything and everything found in their limitless bag of holding, she aims to transform the theatre (and the arts in general) into an act of community creation that consistently rediscovers the past, present, and future and designs safer spaces for people.

Amanda Gabriela

Writer/Performer

Amanda Gabriela is a Brazilian actor, playwright and designer based in Montreal. She started her multidisciplinary practice at the renowned Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona in 2022. After immigration, she has performed across the Canadian screen and stage. In 2026 she produced and acted in her solo performance "La mèr(e)" at Nuit Blanche. Using imagination as her strongest weapon against a dull world, Amanda writes magic realistic plays to tell stories about immigration, technology, multi-language, queerness, and Latinx mythology. Amanda also makes cool upcycled costumes.

Aladeen Tawfeek

Writer/Performer

Reem Boukhssimi and Aladeen Tawfeek live and work in Montreal, where they are raising a family and writing together.

Reem is a Moroccan-Canadian writer interested in what people don’t always say out loud, the contradictions we carry, the desires we question, the parts of ourselves that don’t quite fi t anywhere. She writes from a place that is personal, but never simple.
Aladeen is an Egyptian-Canadian actor and director with over 30 years of experience. His work is grounded in a strong political lens, shaped by a lifelong engagement with questions of justice, power, and responsibility.

Their collaboration began at home, in conversation, and slowly found its way onto the page. What they write together sits somewhere between the intimate and the political, often blurring the line between the two. They are drawn to stories where the personal is not separate from the world, but deeply entangled in it.