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Ottawa Dance Directive (2025)

creators & performers | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, Jordan Samonas
understudy | Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson
direction | Jacqui Du Toit, Pamela Witcher
lighting design | Emilio Sebastiao
video design | Lesley Marshall
stage/technical/production management | Kat Wong
assistant stage and accessibility management | Drea
ODD Technical Director | Laura Wheeler
interpreters | Marianne Kelly, Kat Sibun, Catherine Maier, Janice, Misty Saikaley
funders | City of Ottawa, Ontario Arts Council

Links & Reviews:

Apt 613

SkirtsAfire Festival & SOUND OFF Deaf Theatre Festival (2024)

Two Speaking Vibrations artists on stage in performance. One is wearing a blue robe. One is wearing red pants and red sash.

presenter | SkirtsAfire Theatre Festival and SOUND OFF Deaf Theatre Festival (Edmonton Alberta).
creators & performers | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, & Jordan Samonas
producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
stage & production manager | Kat Wong
director/dramaturg & voice talent | Jacqui Du Toit
Deaf culture director | Pamela Witcher
lighting design | Emilio Sebastiao
projection & video designer | Lesley Marshall
vibrotactile designers | David Bobier & Jim Ruxton (VibraFusionLab)
team interpreters | Marianne Kelly & Andrea Konowalec
accessibility & audio description consultants | Drea and Jessica Watkin

Speaking Vibrations at Halifax Fringe Festival (2023)

Funders & Supporters: Canada Council for the Arts

Links & Reviews
The Coast.ca
Halifax Presents
Twisi Theatre Blog

Speaking Vibrations at Ta Da! Festival (2023)

Links & Reviews
Low Down Newspaper Article (2023) “…a complex spell weaving together a multi-media theatre piece.”
Theatre Wakefield Event Page (2023) “…the most complex multi-media theatre piece Theatre Wakefield has ever presented.”

Four women (one Filipina, one Vietnamese, one white, one Black) on stage, standing in a diagonal line.

Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC) (2022)

presenter | GCTC
creation/performance | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, & Jordan Samonas
producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
director/dramaturg | Jacqui du Toit
Deaf culture director | Pamela Witcher
lighting design | Emilio Sebastiao
projection and video designer | Lesley Marshall
vibrotactile installation | Jesse Stewart
vibrotactile specialists | David Bobier & Jim Ruxton (VibrafusionLabs)
stage management | Kat Wong
production manager | Seth Gerry
Technical director | Kyle Ahluwalia
assistant technical director & set builder | Jonah Maybear
accessibility coordinator | Drea
sound | Patrice-Anne Forbes & Josephine Trudel
movement consultant | Dayna Szyndrowski
set and sound design | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
digital film captioning | Carmelle Cachero
wardrobe | Lita Cachero
interpreter coordinator | Marianne Kelly
interpreters | Josée Bower, Sabrina Chang, Mary Ann Decasa, Kathleen Henderson, Ayoka Junaid, Marianne Kelly, Catherine Maier, Laura Nimigan, Misty Saikaley, Katherine Sibun

Funded & Supported by: Canada Council for the Arts, Great Canadian Theatre Company

Links & Reviews
GCTC.ca – Speaking Vibrations
Intermission Magazine “While Speaking Vibrations, the latest show to take the stage in the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre, isn’t a show specifically about revolution, it is, at its core, a revolutionary product.”
GCTC ASL Promo Video

A Black woman in a beige dress poses against a black background.

Ottawa Fringe Festival (2021)

Links & Reviews
Apt 613 (2021)
Ottawa Fringe Festival, Audio Pre-Show Note (2021)
CBC Ottawa, All In a Day (2021)

Four women (one Filipina, one Southeast Asian, one white, one Black) on stage against a black background.

Accessible Concert Film (2021)

creation/performance | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, & Jordan Samonas
producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
director/dramaturg | Jacqui du Toit
interpreters | Marianne Kelly, Amanda Grimaldi, Ayoka Junaid & Jennifer Roberts
filming | NP Productions
film editing & dynamic text | Carmelle Cachero
graphic design | Isabel Lainez
technical director/light & sound | Jonah Lerner

Funded & Supported by: The Ontario Arts Council, Great Canadian Theatre Company

Links & Reviews:
Ottawa Citizen (2021)
CHUO 89.1FM (2021)
Video Trailer (2021)

Three women (one Filipina, one Black, one white) stand on stage against a black background.

Uproar Arts Festival (2019)

presenter | Uproar Arts Festival
creation/performance | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, & Jordan Samonas
executive producers | Caterina Fiorindi, Monica Bradford-Lea, Ali Harris & Nicole Titus
light & sound | Carolyn Barnes
technical direction | Ted Forbes