It's episode 17 of A View from the Box - The Podcast and I am speaking to the sage and sensational d’bi.young anitafrika.

d’bi.young is an internationally acclaimed visionary dub poet, playwright-performer, director-dramaturge, and activist-scholar, who creates, embodies, and teaches critical dub pedagogy. Culminating their PhD in Black womyn’s theatre at London South Bank University, their research centers on the epistemological, ontological, cosmological, ethical, aesthetic, and somatic emancipation of the oppressed self through theatre-making. d’bi.young developed the Anitafrika Method—a nurturant Black-queer-feminist pedagogy of transformation—offering arts practitioners globally, an intersectional framework of knowing, doing, and being. A widely anthologized Siminovitch Playwright Prize finalist, three-time Dora award winner, and founding Artistic Director of Watah Theatre, Spolrusie Press, and Ubuntu Decolonial Arts Centre in Costa Rica, d’bi.young has authored twelve plays, seven albums, and four poetry collections. d’bi.young currently serves as lead faculty in the training programs of Soulpepper and Obsidian theatre companies. Having recently completed a sessional term at UVic’s Theatre Department, their current initiatives include leading the Black Womxn Theatre Digital Archive project, launching Watah Theatre’s new Black Theatre School, and preparing for the 20th-anniversary production of their multi-ward-winning Sankofa Trilogy.

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Hi everyone! It's episode 16 of A View from the Box - The Podcast and I am so grateful to have each and every one of you here along with me. Today I get to speak to the incomparable Vanessa Sears.

Vanessa Sears is a Dora Award, Toronto Theatre Critics Award, BroadwayWorld Award and Critic’s Pick Award winning artist. She has starred on stages across Canada including Shaw, Stratford and Mirvish, and made her Broadway debut as an original cast member in ‘New York, New York’. Last year Vanessa starred in the Stratford Festival’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ as Juliet, and made her panto debut as the Wicked Witch of the West End. Continuing to try new things that scare her, Vanessa is thrilled to be tackling her first ever solo performance in Nightwood Theatre’s production of ‘Shedding a Skin’ by Amanda Wilkin.

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It's episode 15 of A View from the Box - The Podcast! I'm so happy to have the one and only Jonathan Wilson on the show today!

Jonathan Wilson is a queer writer and performer here in Toronto. He had a recurring role as Howie on SUE THOMAS F.B.EYE. Past theatre work includes the recent hit GAY FOR PAY at Crow’s theatre Toronto. Past work includes his Dora Award winning performance as Timon in the Canadian premiere of THE LION KING (The Princess of Wales Theatre) and performances in his own play the Governor General’s and Dora nominated MY OWN PRIVATE OSHAWA (Tarragon Theatre, New Yorker Theatre). Jonathan also starred as Ned Weeks in the critically acclaimed Toronto production of THE NORMAL HEART produced by Stdio 180 Theatre.

His current show, "A Public Display of Affection" is currently on stage at the Studio Theatre at Streetcar Crowsnest until April 20.

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