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Speaking Vibrations is currently planning it’s 2025-2026 season. Stay tuned for more info!

Past Events

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

Speaking Vibrations at Ottawa Fringe Festival (2021)  (June, 2021)

Credits:
creation/performance | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, & Jordan Samonas
producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
director/dramaturg | Jacqui du Toit
production manager | Ted Forbes
technical director | Fraser MacKinnon
digital film captioning | Carmelle Cachero
interpreter | Marianne Kelly
graphic design | Isabel Lainez

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

Speaking Vibrations at SkirtsAfire Festival and SOUND OFF Deaf Theatre Festival (2024)  (2024)

Speaking Vibrations performed at SkirtsAfire Theatre Festival and SOUND OFF Deaf Theatre Festival in Edmonton Alberta, March 2024.

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

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

Speaking Vibrations at Great Canadian Theatre Company (2022)  (2022)

Credits:
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
GCTC ASL Promo Video

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

Speaking Vibrations Accessible Music Concert Film (2021)  (2021)

Credits:
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.

Speaking Vibrations at Uproar Arts Festival (2019)  (2019)

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
vibrotactile set up | Ted Forbes

Speaking Vibrations at Halifax Fringe Festival (2023) 

Speaking Vibrations performed as part of the 2023 Halifax Fringe Festival at Neptune Theatre’s Scotiabank Stage, September 2023.

producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
stage & production manager | Kat Wong 
director/dramaturg | Jacqui du Toit
Deaf culture director | Pamela Witcher 
lighting design | Emilio Sebastiao
projection & video designer | Lesley Marshall
vibrotactile specialists | David Bobier & Jim Ruxton (VibrafusionLab)
lead interpreters | Carolyn Carter & Marianne Kelly

Funders & Supporters: Canada Council for the Arts

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

Speaking Vibrations at Ta Da! Festival (2023) 

Speaking Vibrations is the most complex multi-media theatre piece Theatre Wakefield has ever presented. Performed at Centre Wakefield La Pêche (September, 2023)

producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
stage & production manager | Kat Wong 
director/dramaturg | Jacqui du Toit
Deaf culture director | Pamela Witcher 
lighting design | Emilio Sebastiao
projection & video designer | Lesley Marshall
vibrotactile specialists | David Bobier & Jim Ruxton (VibrafusionLab)
lead interpreter | Marianne Kelly

Links & Reviews
Low Down Newspaper Article (2023)
Theatre Wakefield Event Page (2023)

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