Connor Yuzwenko-Martin - Performer

Connor has nurtured a lifelong passion for theatre and accessibility, which led him to Public Relations as a channel to elevate his advocacy for the Deaf community and other marginalized groups.

He currently works part time for Deaf Spectrum, one of Canada’s most rapidly growing Deaf businesses based in Ontario. Many theatres, arts organizations, and governmental organizations such as the City of Edmonton have worked with Connor to provide accessible information in vlogs, advise on improving processes, and to represent the Deaf perspective in various discussions and processes.

Thurga Kanagasekarampillai - Performer

Thurga Kanagasekarampillai is a Deaf Tamil Queer artist. She graduated with Honours in the Acting for Media program at George Brown College in 2018. She has worked as Deaf Interpreter and ASL performer with Cahoots Theatre for "The Enchanted Loom" (2016); Red Dress Production for “Drift Seeds” (2017) as ASL performer; and Speculation (2018) as ASL performer and Deaf Interpreter.

In February 2019, she performed with Deafies’ Unique Time at Rhubarb Festival and SOUND OFF Festival in Edmonton, Alberta. She was in ‘The Tempest’ at Citadel Theatre as Miranda in Edmonton in April - May 2019.

Griffin McInnes - Co-Creator

Griffin McInnes is a director, playwright and producer in Toronto. He is the Creative Producer at Outside the March and one of the co-creators of The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries, a phone-based, pandemic-responsive production performed thousands of times in 200+ cities worldwide.

His Zoom-based collaboration with playwright Karen Hines and The University of Windsor, The River of Forgetfulness, was recently hailed by The Toronto Star as "ingenious". Griffin holds a graduate degree from the School of Experimentation in Arts and Politics at SciencesPo in Paris, France, where he collaborated with interdisciplinary artists from around the world on research-creation projects

Mitchell Cushman - Co-Creator

Mitchell is a director, playwright, arts educator and founding Artistic Director of Outside the March, one of Canada’s leading immersive theatre companies.

His work has been seen on stages as large as the Royal Alexandra Theatre, in spaces as intimate as kindergarten classrooms and living rooms, and in locales as far flung as London, New York, Whitehorse, Edinburgh, Munich, Finland and Japan. Recent Directing Credits include: The Flick, The Tape Escape, The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale, Dr. Silver, Jerusalem, Lessons in Temperament, TomorrowLoveTM; Treasure Island, Breath of Kings, Possible Worlds (Stratford); Brantwood (Sheridan); Hand to God, The Aliens (Coal Mine); Merrily We Roll Along (YES Theatre); The Curious Voyage, I,Claudia (TIFT). Recipient of the Siminovitch protégé award, three Dora Awards for Outstanding Production, a Dora Award for Outstanding Direction and the Toronto Theatre Critic’s Award for Best Director.