Clockwise from top left: Angelina Alberto, Carol Ann Bohrn, Ava Darrach-Gagnon, Jo Dixon, Rae Swan
Angelina Alberto is a multidisciplinary Indigenous Artist and Educator born and raised on Treaty One Territory, where Winnipeg now resides. As a performer, Angelina was last seen in Savage Societies reading of City NDN Luv in partnership with Theatre Projects Manitoba and Manitoba Theatre Centre. She is also currently involved in the Manitoba Theatre Centre National Mentorship with stage and screen’s Sharron Matthews. She has lent her talents across North America working for companies such as EveryBody on Stage and the Walt Disney Company. As an educator, you can catch Angelina teaching children on movie sets, child supervising for professional theatres and in classrooms across the city. Thank you to Vinnie, Mom and Mac for all the support!
Carol-Ann Bohrn fell in love with dance in her hometown of Brandon. Her career debuted in Saskatoon with the White Birch Ballet. In Winnipeg she has performed works by Marie-Josee Chartier, Rachel Browne, Jera Wolfe, Idan Cohen, and Jolene Bailie. She has danced and acted for theatre, film, television commercials and music videos. Carol-Ann was nominated for an Evie Award for her choreographic contributions to PTE’s original show, By Grand Central Station. After graduating from the School of Contemporary Dancers / University of Winnipeg, she sought further development at the Cartae Open School at aceartinc, the Foundational Mentorship Program at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Teacher Training Program. Her work is especially influenced by studies in Grotowski, Pochinko Clown and Feldenkrais.
Ava Darrach-Gagnon is a bilingual artist and graduate of the Unniversity of Winnipeg Acting Honours Program. She has appeared in productions such as Sense & Sensibility and Unnecessary Farce (RMTC) and The Winter’s Tale/Le conte d’hiver (SIR/Cercle Molière). Other theatre highlights include Joe Job, God: a One Act Play, Revenge of the Meek and Pizza Man. Select film/television credits include Burden of Truth, Our Christmas Love Song, Washed Away, and recurring appearances as “the Jill of all trades” in the travelling documentary series Escape or Die. She is thrilled to partake in this new creation with the Free Theatre and to collaborate with these exceptional artists.
Jo Dixon is a multidisciplinary artist creating within community contexts across Canada. Her work is distinguished by a collaborative aesthetic that values the input of co-creators. Rooted in the belief that the stories we tell ourselves and each other profoundly shape our connections, her work seeks to grow and strengthen those connections through significant experiences. Jo’s work includes theatre and performance art, puppetry, dance, installation, storytelling, visual art and sculpture. Jo resides in Winnipeg/ Treaty 1 territory. She lives with her husband Paul, their four fabulous offspring, three cats and one dog. Life is always a fun, full, creative, chaotic adventure and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
Delf Gravert has acted in numerous productions – most recently Embargo, a devised group theatre project by Claire Friesen. Delf has a Theatre Performance BA from University of Winnipeg and did a professional development program at Dell Arte International in California. Musically, Delf plays and writes music in the electronic band Slipperbasket, and also in a psych-rock band called Luftlöwe . He dj’s on wax as Mystic Hustle. Delf has done fine art photography and portraits for the last twenty years. He has made some touring short films, with support and training from Winnipeg Film Group. Aside from all that , Delf loves nature, basketball and his family roots are from around Hamburg Germany.
Rae Swan (she/they) is a queer, Métis emerging artist from Treaty 1 land, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Rae works in fine art, film and theatre. Her work explores themes of mixed-race identity, post-colonial futures, rest and our relationship with the land as artists. In 2023 she spent two weeks at the Harvest Moon recent graduate residency developing her creative practice with the land. Along with her own visual arts practice, Rae works in film and theatre as an actor and educator. Approaching art making with play and rest is crucial to a future where we are healing our communities and ourselves.
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