William (Bill) Grant Hubbard is the Executive Producer of Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard Productions Society. See website: www.motherhcproductions.com  In 2015, after enjoying three distinct careers, Bill decided, in a moment of clarity, to pursue his artistic interests exclusively and set a plan in motion that included forming a not-for-profit society and creating a play entitled: I Am Not a Girl. The story centers on the challenging and tortuous journey of a transgender male. In 2018 the Society produced the play at the Cultch and experienced very favorable responses from audience members. This feedback provided the impetus to explore the potential of securing a co-producer in Western Canada for a 2020 production.

Joanna Garfinkel is the co-founder of collectively and socially-driven play development company Universal Limited. She is the co-creator, with Yoshié Bancroft, of JAPANESE PROBLEM, a site-responsive piece about the Japanese Canadian Incarceration. Previously, she co-created and directed the pedicab adventure Tour for HIVE 3, produced by the Electric Company, Universal Limited, and the Cultural Olympiad. That site-specific escapade was reinvented for Victoria (Theatre SKAM), and Toronto (SummerWorks). Joanna is struck by the racially motivated systemic inequities that keep repeating in Canada, and to troubling those patterns through performance. Recent credits include co-curating, dramaturging and directing the Northern Play Reading Series in Yellowknife, NWT (Akpik Theatre), dramaturgy for Gary Mok's i broke the ocean (VACT MSG lab), and for the multi-award-winning Poly Queer Love Ballad, which is touring to Theatre Passe Murailles in 2019. She has been nominated for three Jessie awards, winning one (Critics Choice for Innovation); was awarded the Pure Research grant from Nightswimming Theatre (Toronto), and has received the Sydney Risk award for directing. She moved to Vancouver to get her MFA in directing at UBC, and her focus since has been primarily in new play development, multidisciplinary, and site-specific work. She has trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in New York. Upcoming: dramaturgy for a host of Queer work including Night Passing, Mx, and a new opera about Weimar cabaret.

A graduate of SFU Theatre Department and the Arts Club Actor’s Intensive, Kelly is an Associate Producer of Genus Theatre where she starred in 4H Club, The Physicists, and Tomb With A View. Recent credits include Welcome to Thebes (United Players), The Realistic Joneses (Mint Collective),  Laramie Project and String of Pearls (Tomo Suru). Kelly has over 25 years of professional experience in voice over for commercials and animation. Most notably, she has played the voice of Barbie in the majority of Mattel movies since 2001, and Starlight Glimmer in the juggernaut My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Born and raised in Vancouver, Larry Ghini is a retired former Federal Government property manager who now invests his time and energy in assisting his city's theatre community in a variety of roles.  He was a major financial contributor to the critically acclaimed movie Eadweard. For a time, he reviewed theatre for the Vancouverscape blog. Now he involves himself ushering at several local venues and a couple of festivals.  For 2018 he is also contributing to the Jessie Richardson Awards selection process. He estimates over his lifetime he has seen well over thousand staged presentations and he hopes to see another thousand before he is done.

Starlise Waschuk is an actress, voiceover artist and teacher at McIlroy and Associates. A prairie girl at heart, she has been in Vancouver living the dream of an artist constantly creating, learning and growing. Her most recent theatre production was the role of Matilda in Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline (which she also produced). She is advocate for writing your own work and getting on the stage so she is a huge fan of this About Love Festival. Have a fantastic run everyone.

Patricia Trinh is a multidisciplinary, queer, asian canadian, artist, based in Vancouver B.C.; with a background in directing, writing, performing and producing. A graduate of the University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre Department. Trinh’s creative highlights include the premiere of her first One Act, “What Define Us” on The Arts Club stage in 2007 [LEAP Playwriting Program]. November of 2010 Trinh wrote & directed her second play, “The Ethical Sixsome” [UVic SATCo.]. November of 2012, “The Ethical Sixsome” went on to have its international premiere at South Oregon University. June of 2017 Trinh won Best Director for her work in "About Love Festival" [Tomo Suru Players]. June of 2018 Trinh directed & produced (launching Dusty Foot Productions) the world premiere of her play, “Probability” at rEvolver Theatre Festival. May of 2019 Trinh had the honour of sharing the playing field with the feminist collective, Killjoy Theatre; directing “Fireflies” by Kanon Hewitt, at rEvolver Theatre Festival. Trinh’s company Dusty Foot Productions took part in the resurgence of HIVE 2019 at Magnetic North Festival. Trinh’s most recent creative venture involved directing and producing her latest play “Red Glimmer,” at the 2019 Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trinh is ecstatic to be joining Frank Theatre as an Associate Producer for their 2019/2020 Season. This will be Trinh’s second year sitting on the judging panel for Tomo Suru Players “About Love Festival.” Instagram: @dustyfootproductions Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dustyfootproductions/

John Ennis Graham, the artist formerly known as Ennis Graham John Hannah, is a Vancouver based actor and director. He is becoming a regular participant in the works of Tomo Suru and he wonders at the spark of joy he finds in himself at each venture. He'd like to thank himself, and the doctor who performed laparoscopy to remove his appendix last May. He didn't get a chance to previously thank him.

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