Daryl Cloran is the Artistic Director of the Citadel Theatre. He came to Edmonton from Kamloops, BC where he served as Artistic Director of Western Canada Theatre for six seasons. Daryl’s directing credits include: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Bard on the Beach), Liberation Days (Theatre Calgary), In A Blue Moon (Arts Club), Mary Poppins (Persephone), Tribes (Canadian Stage), And All For Love (National Arts Centre), Generous (Tarragon), and Afterplay (Shaw Festival).
Daryl was also the Founding Artistic Director of Theatrefront in Toronto, where he directed numerous international collaborations including: RETURN (The Sarajevo Project) - produced in Bosnia and Toronto; and UBUNTU (The Cape Town Project) - produced in South Africa, Halifax, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.
Daryl’s work has been nominated for Dora Awards (Toronto), Betty Awards (Calgary), SATA Awards (Saskatoon), and Jessie Awards & Ovation Awards (Vancouver). He has been awarded the Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Director, the Toronto Theatre Emerging Artist Award, and a Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding Director (Halifax).
Daryl is now a proud resident of Edmonton, where he lives with his wife Holly, and their two sons Liam and Jack.
Matthew MacFadzean is an award-winning writer and actor and a 2010 graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's Prime Time TV Program, with degrees from both the National Theatre School of Canada and McGill University. He has written nine plays, performed as far away as Spain and Singapore, including richardthesecond, also published by Playwrights Canada Press. Included among his awards is New York's prestigious Fox Foundation Award, which he used to travel and work in Southeast Asia. He is currently in development of two one-hour television series and lives in Parkdale with his dog, Connor.
Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright, TV writer, and librettist whose work has been widely produced in Canada and around the world. Recent stage work includes Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan). Hannah has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, Trillium Book Award, the Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award, the Scotsman Fringe First and the Herald Angel Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize administered by Yale University. She has been nominated for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Drama Desk Award, and Canada’s Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. She is a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. She spends her time between Halifax and Los Angeles.
Born in Niitsitapi country, Tara Beagan is a proud Ntlaka'pamux and Irish "Canadian" halfbreed. She has written more than twenty plays, and also directs and performs. Currently, she co-helms ARTICLE 11 with her most cherished collaborator, favourite artist and true love, Andy Moro. ARTICLE 11, now based in Mohkintsis, has brought Indigenous Activist art works to the NAC, the ROM, Kingcome Inlet, Kamloops, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary's City Hall, the Edinburgh Fringe, and Wellington, Aotearoa (NZ). In 2021, Tara won the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for her body of work.
Actor and playwright Damien Atkins was born in Australia, grew up in Alberta, and now makes his home in Toronto. He is the author of the solo shows miss chatelaine, Real Live Girl, and We Are Not Alone, and the plays Good Mother, Lucy, The Mill Part Four: Ash, The Gay Heritage Project (with Andrew Kushnir and Paul Dunn), and an adaptation of C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian. He has been produced all across Canada and the US, including at both the Stratford and Shaw Festivals. Damien has been playwright-in-residence at Canadian Stage, Crow's Theatre, Factory Theatre, and Necessary Angel. He has received ten Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for acting and writing, winning four.
