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As a multilingual artist, he was most recently a co-creator/performer of иќ¦д»” Little Shrimp, a bilingual audio play about intergenerational relationships within Chinese culture (Carousel Theatre). Howard Dai is a Taiwanese actor, writer, and theatre artist.

With rice & beans: Loomings or The Whale (playwright/director), Mis PapГЎs (performer), Last Train In (director) and Sik Zeon Tin Haa/A Taste of Empire (translator/performer, with Gateway TheatreвЂ™s Pacific Festival (2016) and Cahoots Theatre (2018)). Select creative credits: иќ¦д»” Little Shrimp (co-creator, Carousel Theatre for Young People) Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave (assistant director, Arts Club) No Foreigners (performer/translator, Hong Kong Exile/fu-GEN) Pick a Number (co-writer/performer, Boca del Lupo/FUSE). Derek was part of the 2020 Banff Playwrights Lab, and is a National Arts Centre English Theatre Artist in Residence (19/20) with yellow objects, a show about the ongoing pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

His Chicken Girl (2019/20) was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script, and won the Sydney Risk Award for Outstanding Original Play by an Emerging Playwright. The play was subsequently nominated for a Dora Award (Best Touring Production) in 2018. At the 2016 Glassco Translation Residency hosted by Playwrights' Workshop MontrГ©al, Derek translated Jovanni SyвЂ™s A Taste of Empire (Cantonese title: йЈџз›Ўе¤©дё‹/Sik Zeon Tin Haa). In 2015, Derek was awarded the Vancouver Fringe New Play Prize with Starstuff: per aspera ad astra. He has also worked with Playwrights Theatre Centre (artistic director apprentice), Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (associate artistic producer), and the rEvolver Festival (guest curator). A playwright, director, performer, translator, and producer, Derek has been co-artistic director of rice & beans theatre since 2010. He received his BFA in theatre performance from Simon Fraser University.

#Detours tailbone full

Pedro has also worked behind the scenes with local Vancouver theatre companies such as: Full Circle First Nations Performance, Leaky Heaven, Boca del Lupo, and Neworld Theatre.Дerek Chan (he/him) grew up in colonial Hong Kong, studied in Norway, and currently lives in Vancouver. Select Credits: Selfie, Bull (Rumble Theatre), Broken Tailbone (Nightswimming), Slime (the only animal), Mis PapГЎs (rice & beans), Are We There Yet? (Neworld Theatre), and The Show Must Go On (Push Festival). Pedro is a director, playwright, performer and theatre jack-of-all-trades. Pedro was also part of the second cohort of Banff's Arts and Culture Leadership program in partnershipВ with NTS in 2019. He then went on to form rice & beans theatre with Derek Chan.В Pedro was the Artistic Resident at Neworld Theatre in 2014, the guest curator of the 2018 rEvolver Festival and was one of the playwrights in the 2019 PlaywrightвЂ™s Lab at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity where he worked on his play Made in Canada: an agricultural operetta. He received his BFA in Theatre Performance from SFUвЂ™s School for the Contemporary Arts. Pedro (he/him) is a Latinx-Canadian theatre artist who was born and raised in Chetwynd, British Columbia. We acknowledge that our work takes place on the uncededВ and traditional territories of the xК·mЙ™ОёkwЙ™yМ“Й™m (Musqueam), SkwxwuМЃ7mesh (Squamish), and SЙ™lМ“ГlwЙ™taЙ¬В (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. rice & beans values theatre that is accessible, honest, uncompromising and personal. In 2019, its production of Chicken Girl was nominated for 3 Jessies in Vancouver, and in 2022, its production of Yellow Objects won a Jessie Innovation Award. In 2018, rice & beans was nominated for a Dora Award for its production of Sik Zeon Tin Haa with Cahoots Theatre in Toronto. Besides Vancouver, rice & beans theatre has also produced original work for audiences in Toronto, Richmond, Nanaimo and Victoria. rice & beans provides a platform for the creation, development and production of boundary-pushing theatre, as well as supports fellow artists by providing dramaturgy, direction, and mentorship. The company is dedicated to facilitating original, Canadian work that tells the story of where we came from and where we are going, by way of experimentation with languages and the theatrical form. Rice & beans theatre is a Vancouver-based theatre company founded in 2010 by Pedro Chamale and Derek Chan.