Bad Muse Collective

Maddie Bautista, Co-creator, Performer, Composer, Sound Designer

A Bi, Filipina artist in Tkaronto’s West End – Maddie has made her mark as Canadian theatre’s ever-playful sound designer and performance creator.

In the daytime, you can catch Maddie creating and shaping sound in iconic theatres across the country – from composing original music in the earliest stages of new work development, to tuning systems with live musicians and mid-sized casts.

Her hands are dirty with the creation of new music-forward work, such as Noche Buena with Jennifer Villaverde.

After the sun goes down, she moonlights as half of xLq – a queer pop performance duo who toured across the country with their daring, interactive theatre… and bizarre, grungy drag.

If you want to get specific and know more about Maddie’s past work and accolades, visit www.maddiebautista.com

Deanna H. Choi, Co-creator, Performer, Composer, Sound Designer

DEANNA H. CHOI (she/her) composes music for film and TV and designs sonic environments for live performance. She has served in artist residencies at the Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Lab, Banff Centre, and SOCAN Foundation. She is an award-winning violinist, educator, and formerly studied behavioural neuroscience. She is the 2020 laureate of the Pauline McGibbon Award, and nominated for the Louis Applebaum Award, 2 Robert Merritt Awards, and a Canadian Screen Music Award. Deanna is a member of IATSE ADC 659 and the Screen Composers’ Guild. She lives in T’karonto on Treaty 13 Territory. www.splitbrainsound.com

Erin Brubacher, Director, Dramaturg

Erin Brubacher is a director and multidisciplinary artist. Her work has taken her across the Americas and Europe, to contexts including The National Arts Centre (Ottawa), The Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), The Kitchen (NYC), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), The Edinburgh International Festival, and Theater der Welt (Germany). She is the author of In the small hours (Gaspereau Press), and the co-author of 7th Cousins: An Automythography (Book*hug), and a new novel forthcoming.

As a director, Erin works with writers, performers, musicians, visual artists, and nonprofessionals to collaboratively make live experiences. She is driven by the desire to make meeting places: for her, art is a framework that serves to gather people who might not otherwise be in a room together. www.erinbrubacher.com