TORIEN CAFFERATA
Torien Cafferata (they/he) is an AuDHD neuroqueer interdisciplinary artist, playwright, performer, director, dramaturge, and educator based in Treaty 6 territory (Saskatoon, Canada). They hold a BFA in Drama from the University of Saskatchewan. As co-Artistic Director of It’s Not A Box Theatre, they feel most at home playing at the intersections between the mad arts, ludology, analogue mixed reality, interaction dramaturgy, immersive scenography, and found spaces.
He thrives on collaborating across disciplines and inviting audiences to become participants, players, and storytellers. This is most broadly seen in their app-guided documentary project, Overhear, which has toured internationally from SummerWorks to the Prague Quadrennial and received the SATAward for Innovation in 2018. Recently he has been bringing more digital game design into his work, such as in the home interactive audio play series ISOLATA and in the live-action sandbox RPG, Play Fail Win.
As an active community member, Torien has served on the Live Five Independent Theatre board since 2018, as President and Dramaturgical Chair of the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre (2018-2019), and as Host Dramaturge of the Sask Writers Workshop, a free workshop collective for young or emerging writers, since 2015.
AMBERLIN HSU
Amberlin Hsu (xe/xem/xyr) is a producer, designer (lighting, costumes, stage), performer, and choreographer based in Treaty 6 (Saskatoon, Canada). Xe studied dance at NTUA in Taiwan and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a BFA in Drama (Design).
As co-Artistic Director of It’s Not A Box Theatre with Torien Cafferata, xyr recent devised theatre credits include: ISOLATA (2020), Play Fail Win (2020), Overhear (2016-2019), pimohtēwak (2019), cell (2017), Hypneurosis (2016), and Project O (2015).
Recent lighting design credits: SCUM: A Manifesto (Scantily Glad Theatre), The Death of a Salesman (Theatre Naught), Displaced (Ground Cover Theatre), Dominion (GTNT), and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Theatre Naught); Recent costume design credits: The Death of A Salesman (Theatre Naught), Southern Dandy 75 (Otto Helmut Productions), Aiden Flynn Lost his Brother, So He Makes Another (Theatre Howl), Macbeth (Embrace Theatre).