Deer Blood – Cancelled

Josh is a creator, actor and musician based in Montreal and Toronto. His work is focused on integrating multiple expressive forms in the theatre space to satisfy the modern appetite for mythic spectacle. He is an Other Families co-founder and Artistic Producer of Endless Love. His creations include collaborations with Hooks and Crooks, RANT, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Centaur’s Wildside Festival, Montreal Fringe Festival, and Tarragon Theatre. As an actor he enjoyed three seasons at the Stratford Festival (Timon of Athens, Shakespeare in Love), as well as work with Buddies in Bad Times, Paradigm Productions, Theatre Kingston, Port Stanley Theatre Festival and Lighthouse Theatre Festival. Josh is an alumnus of Stratford’s Birmingham Conservatory where he was awarded the Michael Mawson Award for Classical Theatre. Josh holds a BFA in Acting from York University and is a Ticketing Coordinator for Lighthouse Immersive, the US and Toronto producers of Massimiliano Siccardi’s Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit.

Zach is a Montreal based writer focused on the development of immersive narrative events. He is the Narrative Designer for Other Families. Creations with Other Families include house.xct_, and a deconstructionist video game/novel and Deer Blood. Other publications include Slay, OF, RED BOOK, GREEN BOOK and short literary pieces in RAMPIKE, COUGH, fillingstation, BafterC and Huffington Post. He currently works as a Narrative Designer for Montreal video game company Ludia Inc. He holds a high honours English Specialist Degree from the University of Toronto.

Rose is an artist based in Tkaronto, heretofore engaged predominantly in the medium of live performance. In their work they seek to tacitly encourage the personal, political and sensuous capacities of the collective and the individual as a means towards forming more equitable societies and interrogative art. They’re highly curious about collaborative and interdisciplinary working-together. They have worked with Buddies in Bad Times, Canadian Stage, Festival TransAmériques, It Could Still Happen, Public Recordings, the red light district, Roseneath Theatre, Shakespeare in Action, Soulpepper, and Theatre Direct, among others.

Marissa is a performance artist, theatre-maker, and trained actor who earned a BA from The New School and an MA in Performance Studies from NYU. Marissa directed the immersive Antonin Artaud’s SPURT OF BLOOD, Endgame, The Dumb Waiter, All My Sons, and Sylvia; wrote, produced and performed in these original works: The Celebrity Obsession (Montreal Fringe 2021), TRIPTYCH (Festival Bete Noire 2020), and 15 DEATHS in 15 MINUTES (Festival Bete Noire 2019). She appeared in Daughters of Mile End (Labyrinth Stage Productions, 2019), was in the 2020-2021 Jewish Arts Mentorship Program (Segal Centre), is the Artistic Director and Co-founder of the performance company, Mad Paradox, and proudly manages the non-profit studio space, Espace Freestanding Room, in Montreal.

Elizabeth is a multidisciplinary performance designer and technician with a strong interest in new media integrations in traditional performing arts. Since receiving a BFA in Design for the Theatre from Concordia University, Elisabeth has accumulated experience in theatre as a stage manager, designer, and technical director. These include credits on the Fierté MTL remount of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and The Celebrity Obsession at Montreal’s Fringe Festival in June 2020. Elisabeth has also designed games, one of which was selected to present at the Montreal Queerness and Games Conference’s arcade in 2020. Elisabeth’s audio drama, October Jones & Fish with Legs, won the 2021 Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Series. Elisabeth enjoys blending the lines between game, audio, and theatre.

Jesse is the primary composer, producer and bandleader behind all of the Other Families audio content and live performances. He is a professional musician and multi-instrumentalist, highly proficient on a range of digital and analog instruments. With a musical foundation built in Toronto’s DJ/producer subculture, he has toured across North America and has had his work featured in advertisements aired during the Super Bowl, the Oscars and the Olympics. All Other Families recorded media was produced, mixed and mastered by Jesse at The Other Families Recording Company, a fully-equipped independent music recording space he runs, which has been operational since December 2009.