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Kayla Ado
 

Artistic Director

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Megan De Sousa

CO- General Manager

Kayla Ado is a Queer, Egyptian/Iranian Director, Playwright, Dramaturg, and Manager based in Toronto, Ontario. She is a graduate of York University’s BFA Theatre Program specializing in Production and Dramaturgy. Kayla is the Founder and Artistic Director of Past Lives Production Company.

Selected credits include: Production Manager, Ubu Redux (Theatre@York, Winter 2021), Playwright/Director, Weret Hekau, (Past Lives Production Company, Summer 2021) Co- Artistic Director, playGround (Theatre@York, 2021-2022), Apprentice Dramaturg, You Can’t Get There From Here vol. 2 (Factory Theatre, 2022), Stage Manager, Everybody (Theatre@York, Winter 2022) Apprentice Stage Manager, among men (Factory Theatre, 2022). 

Megan De Sousa is an emerging theatre artist based near Toronto. She is a current student at York University in the Devised Theatre and Playwriting programs. Megan is passionate about uplifting diverse and unique stories from behind the scenes, whether that be through stage managing, production design or theatre management. Recently, Megan was lucky to be a part of programs like Nightwood Theatre’s "Rising Sun”, and to have worked as a stage manager, sound and lighting designer with the Paprika Festival in 2022. When she is not busy in the theatre scene, she can be found running marathons and experimenting with new hobbies, of those most recently being gardening and cooking.

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Kai Osbourne

CO- General Manager

Kai Osborne is a devised theatre student at York University. He has worked back and on stage in many productions, including York playground, Vanier College Productions, and many DT collaborative pieces. Kai is a queer and trans artist who loves to help create new and experimental artworks. They are currently working on starting up a production company called The Nightlight Production. He is very excited to be a part of the Past Lives Production Company team this season.

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Sarah Miller

Company Dramaturg

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Sheel Achnani

Production Manager / Technical Director

Sarah Miller is an emerging dramaturg and playwright based in Toronto and Whitehorse, studying Theatre Performance Creation and Dramaturgy at York University. Their own work centres themes of growing up queer, and the way our childhoods impact the people we become. When they aren't creating theatre, you can find Sarah baking bread, or trying to make the smallest paper crane. Past credits include: Dramaturg for “Bridges” in Living Labs, “Prude” and “Birdgeoisie” playGround 2022, “Rise and Shine”, “Skinny Dipping Lake”, and “Stuck” Audiotheatrica Vol. 1 (Theatre@York); Dramaturg for “SHAME” and and “digging for sunshine” (PLPC 5290 Festival), and baker of cookies for the kids at The Heart of Riverdale Community Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon. 

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Mackenzie
Mccallum-Mallory

Graphic Designer

Mackenzie Mccallum-Mallory is a trans theatre artist currently working on his BFA in Performance Creation focusing on Playwriting and Devised Theatre, at York University. His work reflects his experience as a trans and queer person, exploring intimacy in queer men and relationships to the queer body in its many variations. His work aims to use the theatrical form to the best of its ability to be vocally and physically dynamic, and performatively demanding. Recent Credits include On Drowning (playGround2020), SHAME (PLPC 5290 Festival), Skinny Dipping Lake (Audio Theatrica Vol. 1), Fruiting Bodies (playGround2022), Past Tense (playGround2022), MASK4MASK (Living Labs Theatre@York 2021-22), and a staged reading of his current show in development BODY PLAN, performed in April 2022. He is excited to be creating the graphics for “que(e)ries…?” and support all the wonderful shows!

​Sheel Achnani is an independent filmmaker who predominantly works in Canada and India. She has her own production house named Sheel Achnani Productions which focuses on the pathbreaking cinema. Some of her work includes Dreams 2019, Home Help 2020, Haunted Morality 2020, and Shadowpox Vaccine documentary 2021. Sheel was also the jury member for the Jewish Film Festival. And have also been part of two student run theatre festivals such as Past Lives Production Company, and playGround. Sheel was the head of publicity team for the movies Death of Daisies 2021, and Borderline 2021. 

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Isabella Cappiello

Company Photographer

I am Isabella Cappiello (she/her), a 20 year old, Toronto based multi-disciplinary artist with a great passion for the performing arts. I grew up doing competitive dance, competing in the styles of jazz, tap, acro, ballet, lyrical, and musical theatre. My love for performing continued to grow as I began taking singing lessons and going on to compete in local vocal festivals. I also took to community theatre and landed lead roles in several productions. Eventually I became interested in other art forms such as photography and painting, making myself quite well-versed in the artistic realm. I am currently studying Fine Arts at York University, specializing in the Acting Conservatory program. I hope to make a career out of my talents and passions for the arts and in the future I intend to take part in both stage and screen productions. In my free time you'll find me hanging out with my cat, playing piano, baking, doing hot yoga, taking pictures, and spending time with my loved ones.

Past Lives Production Company, Wix.Com

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

pastlivespc@gmail.com

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Monday - Friday: 8:30am - 7:30pm
Saturday: 9:00am - 5:00pm​
Sunday: 9:00am - 7:00pm

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