ABOUT US

  • a white femme person smiling at the camera. They have short brown and pink hair and gold glasses. The image is from their chest up against a pink background.

    Jessica Hood

    CO-ARTISTIC PRODUCER

    Jessica Hood (she/they) is a queer, disabled theatre and animation artist and white settler based on the unceded, ancestral lands of the Qayqayt First Nation, and the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, colonially known as New Westminster and Vancouver, BC. Jessica holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Simon Fraser University and a diploma in 2D Character Animation from VanArts. They are the co-founder and co-artistic producer of unladylike co., an interdisciplinary multimedia production company that creates new femme-focused works in a feminist, collaborative, and inclusive process.

    Jessica has worn many hats in her storied career: performer, producer, costume/set/prop designer, playwright, arts administrator, poster designer, marketing coordinator, front of house manager, animator, and filmmaker. She has worked with Rumble Theatre, Pacific Theatre, Arts Club, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Urban Ink, The Vancouver International Children’s Festival, The Troika Collective, rice & beans theatre, the HIVE Performance Collective, and of course, unladylike co.   

    Highlights of their work include leading the initiative to revive HIVE, a multi-disciplinary event featuring the work of 12 indie and emerging theatre artists and companies, and adapting their play bad eggs, a darkly comedic, magical, and modern reimagining of the Persephone myth, into a film/theatre hybrid production.

    Guided by compassion, collaboration, and creativity, Jessica’s artistic practice is a fluid integration of theatre and animation, telling stories that are femme, queer, and disability focused and climate conscious. She is passionate about creating accessible and inclusive spaces where artists are free and safe to share their stories, where their needs are not only met but anticipated, where artists and audiences alike feel it was designed with them in mind from the start, and not as an afterthought.

    jessicahoodartist.com

  • A Filipino-Canadian woman wearing a white t-shirt and looking fiercely towards the camera. She has short black hair which is shaved on one side and she is standing against a grey brick background.

    Rachelle Miguel

    CO-ARTISTIC PRODUCER

    Rachelle Miguel (she/her) is a Vancouver-based playwright and performer. She is a graduate of SFU School for the Contemporary Arts with a BFA in Theatre Performance.

    Rachelle has written and performed for SFU's 2014 Black Box series of shows Solo, an exploration on the grotesque beauty of being alone; Duet, a piece that focused on the joys and frustrations of togetherness; Party, an experimentation on various notions of celebration; and Retreat, a haunting story with a moveable set that the audience travelled through.

    Her other favourite credits include Olya the Child (Troika Collective), a site-specific work that explores the meaning of family through the eyes of a Russian orphan and Planta, an animation by Laurel Thomson, illustrating a mother's apprehension about raising her unborn child.

    Her artistic practice is based in collaboration, patience, determination, and creativity.

    rachellemiguel.com