Mindy Parfitt is a Vancouver based theatre director and founder of The Search Party. She has created and directed numerous critically acclaimed and award winning productions. She is a graduate of both Concordia University (BFA) and UBC (MFA) and has studied with national and international acting and directing teachers. Her work has been nominated for and the recipient of numerous Jessie Richardson Awards. She is one of the Founding Artistic Directors of Horseshoes & Hand Grenades. Mindy has the great fortune of working on a wide variety of theatre productions as a freelance director, theatre creator and mentor.

Originally from Toronto Stephen is a Vancouver based actor and a graduate of the UK’s Drama Centre London. Selected theatre credits include The Motherf**ker with Hat and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Closer by Patrick Marber, Home Free by Lanford Wilson. Selected screen credits include Snowpiercer (TBS), Travelers (Showcase), Continuum (SyFy), Arctic Air (CBC), Little Mosque on the Prairie (CBC), and Godiva’s (CityTV).

Agnes Tong was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario but now calls Vancouver home. The West Coast mountains and fresh air persuaded Agnes to stay after she graduated Studio 58 theatre school. Before Studio 58, Agnes was working as a professional dancer on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, B.A.D. dance company in San Francisco, and freelancing in Toronto. Some previous credits include: The Great Leap, The Shoplifters, King Charles III (Arts Club Theatre), The Ones We Leave Behind (VACT), Kim’s Convenience (Chemainus Theatre). You can catch her next in The Arts Club touring remount production of The Shoplifters by Morris Panych.

Kayvon was born and raised in Saskatoon, SK. He completed his theatrical training at The Canadian College of Performing Arts with a focus on playwriting. He is the creator and Artistic Director of the Pull Festival, as well as the current Artistic Director of SpeakEasy Theatre. Kayvon is also an artistic associate of After Party Theatre. He has many nominations …. never a bride. 

Amir graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (BAhons Set and Costume Design) and Brandeis University (MFA Theatre Arts). He worked as the resident set and costume designer/guest lecturer in theatre design for Duke University Department of Theatre Studies, and as guest faculty teaching advanced set design for UBC department of theatre and film. Previous collaborations with Mindy Parfitt: The Valley and Me & You for the Arts Club Theatre Co. Next: Backlash – Original Dance/Theatre performance created by Mindy Parfitt/Amber Barton/Amir Ofek. Design portfolio: amirofek.wordpress.com

Owen Belton lives in Vancouver, Canada and graduated from Simon Fraser University with a degree in Fine and Performing Art. His studies included acoustic, electroacoustic and computer music composition, film sound and dance. Dance credits include Emergence (National Ballet of Canada), Betroffenheit (Kidd Pivot & Electric Company Theatre) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ballet Nuremberg). Theatre credits include Me & You and The Valley (Arts Club), both directed by Mindy Parfitt, The Romeo Initiative (Touchstone Theatre), Macbeth (Bard on the Beach) and Initiation Trilogy (ECT).

An award winning lighting designer, writer and performer, Itai is the artistic director of the Elbow Theatre in Vancouver. Itai has designed over 300 shows for companies all over North America and Europe, winning five Jessie Richardson Awards, the ADC’s Jack King Award, a Dora Mavor Moore Award, Victoria’s Spotlight Choice Award, a Guthrie Award and the Dublin Fringe Design Award. He was shortlisted to the Siminovitch Prize for Design in 2018. Itai’s one-man show How to Disappear Completely (The Chop, directed by James Long) has had 30 remounts in 26 cities and continues to tour nationally and internationally.

www.itaierdal.com, www.theelbow.ca