Monday, June 15th at Factory Theatre 8pm
Three commissioned works, three brilliant playwrights, and a team of formidable artists to bring it to life.
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Lucy Coren's Play
By Lucy Coren
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Irene Yi's Play
By Irene (Fan) Yi
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By Keshia Palm
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Adam Paolozza is an award winning performer, director, teacher, and producer. With his company Bad New Days Adam creates collaboratively-devised, imagistic theatre, guided by the belief that the live experience has the potential to activate unique ways of seeing the world.
Bad New Days highlights: The Double; Flashing Lights; Paolozzapedia; the Dora award-winning Italian Mime Suicide; and Last Landscape.
Other highlights: Direction: Finding Home (*Dora award nomination); The Cave (by JMar Electric). Acting: Feu Monsieur Feydeau (Théâtre Français Toronto)
Adam is a graduate of Ecole Jacques Lecoq and has a Performance Studies MA from York.
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Adam Paolozza is an award winning performer, director, teacher, and producer. With his company Bad New Days Adam creates collaboratively-devised, imagistic theatre, guided by the belief that the live experience has the potential to activate unique ways of seeing the world.
Bad New Days highlights: The Double; Flashing Lights; Paolozzapedia; the Dora award-winning Italian Mime Suicide; and Last Landscape.
Other highlights: Direction: Finding Home (*Dora award nomination); The Cave (by JMar Electric). Acting: Feu Monsieur Feydeau (Théâtre Français Toronto)
Adam is a graduate of Ecole Jacques Lecoq and has a Performance Studies MA from York.
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living arrangements
Adam Paolozza is an award winning performer, director, teacher, and producer. With his company Bad New Days Adam creates collaboratively-devised, imagistic theatre, guided by the belief that the live experience has the potential to activate unique ways of seeing the world.
Bad New Days highlights: The Double; Flashing Lights; Paolozzapedia; the Dora award-winning Italian Mime Suicide; and Last Landscape.
Other highlights: Direction: Finding Home (*Dora award nomination); The Cave (by JMar Electric). Acting: Feu Monsieur Feydeau (Théâtre Français Toronto)
Adam is a graduate of Ecole Jacques Lecoq and has a Performance Studies MA from York.
Kitchen Potluck 2026 Company & Creatives
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Merlin Simard (she/they/iel/elle) is a performer, playwright, dramaturge, and screenwriter originally from Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal), now based in Tkarón:to (Toronto). As a performer, Merlin has worked with Factory Theatre, TDT, Stratford, Crow’s, Outside The March, Buddies In Bad Times, Talk is Free, and many other theatre companies across Canada.
She has also acted on Grand Army (Netflix) and This Life (CBC), as well as in the short film Poils Anyways (Fittonia Inc.), which she also wrote. Merlin is also developing several projects spanning across theatre, TV, and VR in both English and French. Her practice focuses on themes of access, gender euphoria, technology, and multilingual performance.
@hussy4hussy \ merlinsimard.com
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Magda “isi bhakhomen” Uculmana-Falcón (they/them) is a downtown Toronto-based artist. Their varied works explore themes of healing, black femme power, ancestral memory, rhythm, humour and absurdity. Through stories they aim to build worlds that give black folks the freedom to breathe, to laugh and to heal.
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Liz Der is a queer, mixed-race, Dora Award-nominated actor, writer, and collaborator. Her heritage often features in her work as she explores what it means for her to culturally cross-pollinate and create understandings of home. Liz loves the little things: the minutiae of everyday life that move us closer together; small gifts like trading ratios for salad dressings, sharing a too-small umbrella, or cracking a joke at just the right time.
Past performance credits include: Trojan Girls and the Outhouse of Atreus (Outside the March/ Factory), The House of Bernarda Alba (Aluna/ Modern Times) and Shadow Girls (Pencil Kit Productions).
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Janice Jo Lee (she/they) is a queer Korean folk musician, spoken word poet, bouffon-clown, theatre maker, sound designer and arts educator born and based in Toronto. She has released three albums of music, two poetry chapbooks, and has composed music and sound for two musicals and five plays. Janice works as the DEIA Coordinator for Folk Alliance International. This summer she is directing Play Play Clown Theatre’s Hope in Hot Times at the Hamilton Fringe, produced with support from Theatre Direct. In August her band Janice Jo Lee and the QTs makes their South Korean debut at the Jeonju International Sori Festival.
janicejolee.ca @janjolee
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Lucy Coren (she/her) is a theatre creator, producer and community arts facilitator. She has produced nationally and internationally for venues such as Theatre Royal Plymouth, Tramshed Arts, Native Earth Performing Arts and the National Arts Centre. Past creative work includes Football Fathers (De Grote Post, 2019), Transfers (SummerWorks, 2022) and Watch Me (SummerWorks 2024, Rhubarb Festival 2026.) Lucy has been a Buzz Artist with Theatre Passe Muraille, a member of The Foundry with Factory Theatre, and was an artist-researcher with Project: Humanity and Nightswimming. She is currently the Artistic Producer for Outside the March.
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Irene (Fan) Yi is a bilingual playwright, dramaturg, and performer. She holds a BA in English Literature from Wuhan University, a MA in Arts Administration from Indiana University Bloomington, and a MA in Theatre Studies and Dramaturgy from University of Ottawa. Her work lives between text, sound, projection, and movement, and emerges from sustained engagement with underserved and marginalized communities.
Her recent playwriting projects include I Have a Dream in Chinese, Human Acts, Space Unknown, An Unfinished Portrait of Her, and THE HOTPOT. Her work has been developed or presented through the Advance Theatre Festival, Black Theatre Workshop’s Club Zed Playwright Festival, YuTheatre Toronto, rice and beans theatre’s Polyphonic Residency.
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Sarah Rae Evasiw (she/her) is a Filipino-Canadian emerging multidisciplinary artist and performer from Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), whose passion for creation and love for her craft has led her to find her footing in the Tkarón:to area. Her continuous training as a performer and musician has given her the opportunity to collaborate in a variety of theatrical and contemporary works throughout Canada, and she’s motivated more than ever to create in an authentic and meaningful way. Chosen Credits: @profile (DanceWorks Toronto); Bad Hat’s Peter Pan (Citadel Theatre’s YC); Billie, The Issue at Hand (Nextfest Arts Co.); Everythin’ (Take 5! Theatre Festival). She is soooo thrilled to be a part of VIRGIN CAMP, and is immensely thankful for this opportunity!
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Nick Fangzheng Wang 王方正 is a Chinese theatre artist working across directing, playwriting, and acting. He holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from the UCalgary and a BAH in Drama from Queen’s. Recent: Salesman in China (Assistant Director and Understudy, NAC & Stratford Festival), They Must Have Smoked (Calgary Fringe), and The Bystander Game (Kingston Grand). Nick conducts research in English and writes plays in Chinese. Most recent play: Bedsores 褥疮. He is currently pursuing a second Master’s degree at the uOttawa, focusing on the depoliticization and hyperpoliticization of contemporary Chinese theatre. Website: fangzhengwang.com Instagram: @nickw_096
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Kimberly-Ann Truong is a passionate actress, singer, dancer, educator and creator who is dedicated to fostering new works in the arts, with a focus on supporting Asian and queer communities. Known for her vibrant energy and drive, she actively seeks opportunities to tell important stories and challenge boundaries in the entertainment industry. Alongside her performance work, Kimberly-Ann is an educator who inspires and empowers emerging artists. Her career has spanned acclaimed stages across Canada, Broadway, and beyond, with recent and rapid success in film, television, and animation voiceover. She is driven to make a lasting impact through creation and collaboration.
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Richard Tse is an actor based in Toronto. Through performing, he enjoys connecting with audiences and sharing the experience that touches people’s hearts, and changing our lives.
Among his many theatre projects, Richard has received rave reviews on Ga Ting (ARTillary Collective) at Next Stage Theatre Festival, Red Snow (Red Snow Collective) performed in Toronto and Shanghai, and Tuesdays with Morrie (TorCanAA) in Cantonese, a collaboration with award-winning director and actor from Hong Kong, in Toronto.
Selected film and television credits include Umbrella Academy, Unrestricted War, Second Jen, Mayday and Baroness Von Sketch Show.
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Jobina Sitoh 司徒加恩 is an emerging Chinese-Malaysian artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. A recent graduate of the York University Acting Conservatory, Jobina is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, and works in theatre, film, and television. Select credits include The Disappeared in Erased by Coleen Shirin Macpherson at Theatre Passe Muraille, Dionysus in Bakkhai, directed by David Jansen, and Maggie Chun in Maggie Chun’s First Love and Last Wedding by Helen Ho, directed by Julia Edda Pape. Jobina is also an emerging playwright and is currently in the early stages of developing a documentary theatre piece that explores immigration, marriage, parenthood, culture, and gender. | jobinasitoh.com
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Vania Feng is an aspiring Chinese Canadian actress in the early stages of her journey in the industry. She grew up immersed in both Eastern and Western cultures and education systems. She lived and studied in China for ten years, fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, shaping a grounded, trilingual perspective to bring to her craft. Vania is also a passionate singer. She taught herself guitar and keyboard to accompany her bedroom karaoke sessions, and occasionally plays the drum kit and trumpet. Vania is a student of the world — she is deeply interested in storytelling and hopes to be part of meaningful, well-told stories that connect with people.