Artists
Good Women Dance Collective
Good Women Dance Collective (GWDC) has been the curator of Dancefest@Nextfest since 2013 and we are thrilled to be a part of the Nextfest family for […]
Stuart McDougall
Stuart McDougall
The Woman in the Red Dress is Stuart’s first foray into NextFest, and he couldn’t be happier to work with the wonderful folks he’s met […]
Jacques Arsenault
Acadian tenor Jacques Arsenault studied at the University of Alberta and the University of Prince Edward Island, as well as the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Austria. He […]
Tia Kushniruk
Tia Kushniruk
Tia Kushniruk is the Choreographer and Assistant Director of Fruit Snack. From Edmonton AB, she graduated from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre (STDT) in […]
Golden Grey
Golden Grey
It began as a hobby and blossomed into a passion, the artist known as Golden Grey became captivated by electronic music. He familiarized himself with […]
Erin Hutchison
Erin Hutchison
Erin Hutchison is a part of Nextfest’s clown cabaret! She is an Edmonton based clown, actor, director, playwright, and the Artistic Director of Cathexis Theatre. […]
Camille Pavlenko
Camille is the playwright of The Jackal and Her Reflection. She is a playwright, actor, and improviser based in the Southern Alberta area. Recently, her […]
Alyson Dicey
Alyson is a local actor and graduate of the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta (class of 2012). Recent acting credits and collaborations […]
Jack Belhumeur
Jack Belhumeur
Jack Belhumeur participated in this years festival with his latest film “Happiness” a short that challenges the viewers perception of what happiness truly is. Facebook […]
Kyra Newton
Kyra Newton
Kyra Newton is a Calgary based dance choreographer, performer and movement facilitator passionate about creating original contemporary dance works and collaborating with different artists from […]
Zachary Strom
Zachary Strom is an Edmonton-based performer and creator entering his fourth year of the BFA in Acting at the University of Alberta. Most recently, he […]
Jenna Werhun
Jenna Werhun
Jenna and Cameron have been working closely together for approximately four years. Their primary focus has been on strengthening the relationship between dancers and musicians […]
Andrea Ruschin
Andrea Ruschin is an Edmonton based performer originally from Alberta’s pee break, Red Deer. A student at the University of Alberta, she’s set to complete her […]
NASRA
NASRA
NASRA is a queer, Muslim, Oromo creator based in Amiskwaciy (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory. Nasra acts as Director/Founder of Black Arts Matter- Alberta’s interdisciplinary […]
Sarah Emslie
Sarah Emslie
Sarah is an Alberta-based theatre artist and holds a BFA from the University of Alberta in Acting. Selected theatre acting credits include Crave (Stonemarrow Theatre), […]
Katherine DeCoste
Katherine DeCoste
Under Water – Nextfest 2020 Katherine DeCoste is a queer, white settler in amiskwaciy, where she writes poetry and plays and recently earned her BA […]
Vanessa Beaudry
Vanessa Beaudry
Vanessa Beaudry is from Mosquito First Nation, a Cree community in Saskatchewan. Music has always been a passion for Beaudry. Vanessa is an accomplished singer/songwriter, […]
Andrea Handal Rivera
Andrea Handal Rivera
Andrea Handal Rivera – Dancefest, Fruit Snack Pronouns: She/Her. Andrea is thrilled to be returning to Nextfest with their Online Festival this year! She is a […]
Jack Copland
Jack Copland
DON’T LET ME GO – Nextfest 2020 Born in Kelowna and raised in Mississauga, Jack grew up impersonating his hockey coaches and prank-calling Pizza Pizza […]
Allison Vicente
Allison Vicente
A collaborator of To:For:, Allison Vicente is an emerging dance artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has recently graduated from the Contemporary Dance program […]
Julia van Dam
Julia van Dam
Julia van Dam is excited to be working with her friends in this new way for Nextfest! A Dutch Canadian singer, dancer, and actor currently […]
Carissa Edmonds
I am a grade 11 student at Strathcona Composite. This was my first year being a part of NextFest and I loved every minute of it. […]
Emilie St.Hilaire
Emilie St.Hilaire is an interdisciplinary artist currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Alberta. Through video projections and installation Emilie’s work […]
Bailebail
Bailebail
Bailebail is here to stay! Bailebail, also known as Carl Bailey, got his start in the music scene while receiving his business degree at The […]
NIUBOI
NIUBOI
NIUBOI came from space to save the world from a life of blasé mundanity. They live and work in Amiskwaciy (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 territory. […]
Cindy Rivers
Cindy Rivers
Cindy has performed and headlined all over western Canada, she was selected for the top 100 for the CBC next up national comedy competition, has […]
Katie Cassady
Katie Cassady
This is not an original conundrum – Nextfest 2020 Katie Cassady is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in Vancouver, BC, the unceded territories of […]
Guerrilla Motion Pictures
The Path, a Guerrilla Motion Pictures production, directed by Justin Kueber & Sam Reid, and written by Justin Kueber is the story of a man who […]
Sare
Sare
After spending their high school years filling notebooks with poetry, Sare discovered a fascination with the energy created through live music and started finding a […]
Kiruthika Rathanaswami
Kiruthika Rathanaswami
Kiruthika Rathanaswami is an Edmonton based bharata natyam (Indian Classical Dance) performer. For the past 24 years, she has been under the mentorship and guidance […]
Sir Racha
Sir Racha
Bringing a whole lot of spice to the cast of Ivy’s Magic School Bus, Sir Racha’s flamboyant masculine personality has been bringing fire to stages […]
Hanna Dotzenroth
As part of the visual art exhibition for Nextfest 2021, Hanna Dotzenroth is a visual and conceptual artist living and working on Treaty 6 Territory […]
Ora Burns
Ora Burns
Ora Burns had so much fun being a part of Fruit Snack. She is delighted to participate in this year’s Nextfest festival and is looking […]
Steve Reeve
Steve Reeve
Arkham Rising isn’t just a fan film, it’s a film that formed a family. The saga is archived in a ‘cast at ymmpodcast.com, but long […]
Jay the Juggling Magician
Jay the Juggling Magician
Jay the Juggling Magician is an artist who strives to create true “circus magic.” That priceless feeling of wonder- and the disconnect between what is […]
Daniel McCormack
Daniel McCormack
Daniel is an actor, singer, and musician from Scarborough and a recent graduate of George Brown Theatre School. He found his passion for acting at […]
Hannah Shikatani
Hannah Shikatani
Project: Agether Topart, an interactive dance film at Nextfest 2020 Hannah Shikatani is a recent graduate of Ryerson University’s Performance Dance program where she received […]
Ayla Modeste
Ayla Modeste
Ayla Modeste (Shir Modesty) is a Nehiyaw, Gwich’in Dancer and Story Teller from Edmonton. Dancing is her way of exploring her inner ocean of curiosity, […]
Rumi Jeraj
Rumi Jeraj
Co-creator of Agether Topart Rumi Jeraj hails from Sherwoodpark Alberta (the world’s largest hamlet) and is curious about sound and text in dance performance. During […]
Bad Buddy
Bad Buddy
Bad Buddy slays. This foursome makes fearsome rock tunes, and really knows how to tear up a stage. They’re scrappy as hell and riled up […]
Tyler Biddulph
I am a student at the University of Alberta who thinks acting is fun. I am not very educated in the dramatic arts so I […]
Holly Cinnamon
Holly Cinnamon
Holly Cinnamon is an Edmonton-based director, actor and writer. She is passionate about multi-disciplinary performance and collaborative theatre processes. Previous creation credits include: conceiving…
Svitlana Kravchuk
Svitlana Kravchuk is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ukraine, raised in the Middle East and now settled in Canada. Svitlana holds an Hon. BA in […]
Émanuel Dubbeldam
Émanuel Dubbeldam
[ Theatre 2020 – POSITIVE] Émanuel Dubbeldam is a francophone theatre artist based in Edmonton. His most recent play, Positive, is a work in development […]
Emily Smith
Emily Smith
Emily Smith is a part of Nextfest’s clown cabaret! is an Edmonton based singer, dancer, poet, playwright, dramaturge, and clown. Her recent credits are Big […]
Ashley Laurenson
Ashley Laurenson
Arkham Rising is a fan film that was brewed between a family of friends after a 10 hour road trip, the midnight preview of Dark […]
Southern Streets
Performing in School House Rock at The Living Room Playhouse, Southern Streets combines the best of rock, blues, alternative, and folk music. The band features […]
Connor Yuzwenko-Martin
Connor Yuzwenko-Martin
The Invisible Practice – Multidisciplinary Nextfest 2020 Connor Yuzwenko-Martin has nurtured a lifelong passion for the intersection between theatre and accessibility. Recent work includes serving…
Paige Knickle
Peter/Terry/Paige Knickle
Peter/Terry/Paige Knickle (they/he) is a non-binary transmasculine clown, improvisor, vocalist, actor, and voice actor featured in the Click/Clack: Clowns at the Keyboard showcase. Peter was […]
Lebogang Disele
Lebo Disele is an interdisciplinary performer, director, and dramaturge. She was part of Azimuth Theatre’s workshopped production, All That Binds Us (2020). Other performance credits […]
Toddske
Toddske
As life-long fan of the arts, Toddske, with the help of his friends, decided to turn fantasy into reality by following his passions. What started […]
Soo She
Soo She
Soo She is the harajuku dominatrix from your hentai fantasies. She has dance moves that will make go hmm and a face that you won’t […]
Kaiya
With a deeply soulful voice and wisdom far beyond her years, Kaiya is a pop singer-songwriter, based in Calgary, Alberta. Her music has been described […]
Liam Salmon
Liam Salmon is an award-winning queer playwright, dramaturge, producer, and educator based out of Edmonton, Alberta (Amiskwakahegan) (HE / HIM, THEY/THEM). They are a graduate […]
Bobby Markov
Bobby Markov is an award-winning, Bulgarian/Canadian actor, writer, and director who, at just 21 years old, created the International Award-winning, prolific Sci-Fi Short Film Metamorphosis […]
Tammy Lamouche
Tammy Lamouche
Tammy Lamouche grew up in Gift Lake, a Métis Settlement in Northern Alberta, Writing and singing her own music has always been a passion for […]
The 24th Street Wailers
Imagine if you could take Little Richard, La Vern Baker and Hollywood Fats and mix them all into one group. That’s what you get when […]
Kendra Shorter
Kendra Shorter
Kendra Shorter is a Métis emerging dance artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is a performer, creator, and teacher. Kendra has trained in Edmonton, Calgary, […]
Sara Campos-Silvius
Sara Campos-Silvius
Sara Campos-Silvius (she/her) is a queer and mixed-race Latinx artist in Edmonton, Alberta, in Treaty 6 territory. She is a playwright, screenwriter, and poet, as […]
Tito Guillen
Tito Guillen
Tito Guillen is the writter/director of the films ‘Cover‘ and ‘Arkham Rising‘ which will both be screening during NextFest this year. An avid lover of […]
Jana Brodkin-Singh
Jana is an artist based out of Calgary, Alberta, interested in art and painting. She studied artwork from Alberta College of Art +Design and graduated […]
Lisa Alyx Bui
Lisa Alyx Bui
Lisa Alyx Bui (they/them) is the director, writer and producer of their debut short film Sane-ish Middle Class Asians (2019). Sane-ish Middle Class Asians is […]
Lauren Brady
Lauren Brady
theBYSTANDER – Lauren Brady is an actor, dancer, clown and emerging choreographer/creator from Calgary. She is currently going into her fourth year of the BFA […]
Dana Prather
Dana Prather
Dana is thrilled to be working on sam at the base of the mountain for her very first Nextfest (2020)! A Calgary-based theatre artist, she […]
Stefan Makowski
Stefan Makowski was born in St. Albert, Alberta, and has been producing and DJing electronic music under various pseudonyms since 2009. He is currently studying […]
Declan Baker
Declan Baker is heading into his third year at Ryerson University in the Dance Performance program. He has been fortunate enough to work with artists […]
Cindy Kao
Cindy Kao
To: For: (Directed by Allison Vicente and Howard Dai) Cindy is a Taiwanese-Canadian performance artist, based in Vancouver. She received a degree in Bachelor of […]
Allison Elizabeth Burns
Allison Elizabeth Burns is the director and choreographer of the dance film, The Debate, which premiered at Nextfest 2021. Allison is a choreographer, performer, educator, […]
Amy Lee
Amy Lee is the director, producer, writer, animator, and actor of the 2021 animated short film “Sara Has A Fever.” In the film, Amy is the […]
Quincy Pipella
Quincy Pipella is a recognized dancer & choreographer from Edmonton Alberta, Canada for the past 10 years. She started dancing at Sandra Gray School Of […]
Sora Park
Sora Park is an interdisciplinary artist based in Edmonton. She explores how quantitative and qualitative data gathered during an immersive practice of field research translates […]
Alison Neuman
Alison Neuman
Beautiful Soul – Dance – Nextfest 2020 Alison Neuman is a writer, author, choreographer, dance artist, playwright, and space facilitator who is passionate about sharing […]
Jaseena Elvin
Jaseena Elvin
Project title: Me, Myself & I Despite starting my University journey at a different school, I fell in love with Drama classes at an early […]
Shannon Lin
Shannon Lin is an emerging dance artist from Edmonton, Alberta. She recently graduated with a BFA in Dance from Simon Fraser University, where she studied […]
David Noel
David Noel
David makes his first Nextfest appearance in Positive by Émanuel Dubbeldam and directed by Sarah J Culkin. Stage credits include Plaisirs Interdits (Montreal Fringe 2019), […]
The Vulnerable Cult
The Vulnerable Cult
The Vulnerable Cult is a devised theatre collective composed of eight theatre artists who create bold, multidisciplinary, and evocative work. Our original production Nightmare made its world […]
Roger Rukeba
Rogers Rukeba
Rogers (he/him/jim) is currently based in Fort McMurray with production primarily in Calgary. He is most popular for his rare blend of acoustics and hip-hop. […]
Switches
Switches debuted in the spring of 2013. Their first year included a tour of the west coast, the release of the 4 song ‘Switches’ EP […]
