Maiko Bae Yamamoto – Artistic Director
Maiko has been Artistic Director of Theatre Replacement since 2003. Works she has conceived for the company include: Dress me up in your love, Speak Please a Moment, Train, Yu-Fo, BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience and Sexual Practices of the Japanese. As a freelance performer and director, Maiko has had the pleasure of working with several companies including: urban ink productions, NeWorld Theatre, Mammalian Diving Reflex, and the Leaky Heaven Circus. She is a graduate of SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, where she sometimes teaches. She is also a regular instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada.

James Long – Artistic Director
James has been making theatre since 1995 and now Artistic Directs Theatre Replacement. Theatre Replacement’s work has been seen and received critical acclaim nationally and internationally. As a freelance artist he has had the pleasure of working with Rumble Productions, urban ink, Leaky Heaven Circus, The Only Animal, Stan’s Cafe, Electric Company, boca del lupo, CBC Radio, Judy Radul among many others. He is also a teacher, writer and graduate of SFU. 

Ruthie Sumiko Tabata – Associate Producer
Ruthie joined Theatre Replacement in 2008. She is a founder and producer of arts events including: the award-winning Art Matters Festival at Concordia University in 2001; the ArtsWells Festival of All Things Art in Wells, BC, since 2004; Talking Stick Festival for Full Circle First Nations Performance from 2005-present; the 2008 Magnetic North Theatre Festival. Stiltwalking, crafts, decor and celebrations are some of Ruthie's favourite artistic habits.

Kris Nelson – Touring Producer
Kris was Associate Producer of the 2008 Magnetic North Theatre Festival and has worked as a producer for the PuSh Festival (2005 and 2006) and the PuSh Assembly (2007). As a director and devisor of new works, his credits include: Belly (Brownbike Performance/Screaming Weenie), Melody, Mon Amour and Prairie Gothic Slideshow (Brownbike) as well as creating and performing Ultrabox/Toybox in Box Theatre for Theatre Replacement. Favorite dramaturgy projects include Tara Jean Wilkin’s My Father’s House and Tanya Marquardt’s Lounge (both Jessie award winners for Best Script by an Emerging Writer), and BIOBOXES, again with Theatre Replacement. He has also directed readings and provided dramaturgy on various projects for Solo Collective and Playwright’s Theatre Centre and has been involved as an artist, programmer and producer with numerous Vancouver companies including Rumble Productions, Out on Screen Film Festival, neworldtheatre, Electric Company, Radix, Boca del Lupo, and many more. Kris will be representing Theatre Replacement across the country and the world from his new home in Montreal.

Veda Hille – In House Sound Design
Veda Hille was born in 1968 into a nice family in Vancouver, Canada. Started playing piano in 1974. Childhood interests included plants, books, microscopes, science fiction and psychiatry. Attended art college in the late 80's and started writing music. Now makes records, writes musical theatre, scores films, teaches songwriting, tours, and generally keeps busy. For more information please contact Veda's manager Gary Cristall: 604 215-9077 garycristall@telus.net www.vedahille.com

Candelario Andrade – In House Video Design
Born and raised in México. Cande has a BA in Communication Sciences from the Universidad de La Salle and has studied Montage at the International School of TV and Film in Cuba. With more than 10 years of professional experience working in comics, radio broadcasting, and video, he has developed a special interest in designing and mixing visuals for performance in music, dance, and theatre. In Canada, Candelario collaborates with companies such as Theatre Replacement, Neworld Theatre, Rumble Productions, Leaky Heaven Circus and Theatre Conspiracy, mostly as a video designer. He also co-founded with Camille Gingras, Rough House and produced and designed Tiny Apocalypse (Tremors, Rumble's Festival of Emerging Arts 2008). As a VJ, he has mixed visuals for Spoken World (International Writers Festival), nintendo-punk-band Times Neue Roman and Ice Hockey: Canada vs. Sweden (International Jazz Festival). Sound design credits include numerous productions in México with San Banquito (for which he collaborated for 5 years) sound for video and interactive projects as well as La Luna Productions’ Stripped series I, II and III. Recently he designed sound for Conspiracy/Rumble’s co-production of Blackbird by David Harrower.

Cindy Mochizuki – In House Visual Artist
Cindy Mochizuki is a visual artist working in video, installation, audio, drawing, text, and webworks. Her artistic practice also consists of curating and programming, as well as collaboration with theatre performers and choreographers. She has directed two animated shorts ‘submerge:kami no yu’ and the ‘Canadian Heritage Arts Day Theatre Public Service Announcement’ through the National Film Board in Montreal. She is currently working on a number of exciting new projects that involve letters, ghosts, and miniature creatures. She holds a MFA from Interdisciplinary Arts at Simon Fraser University’s School For Contemporary Arts.

Sarah MacKay - Producing Assistant
Sarah is currently a 4th year student at UBC, where she is studying theatre and commerce. She is also a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. She has always had a huge love for the arts, ever since she performed the role of the kiwi in a fruit salad-inspired ballet at the age of five. For the past two summers, she has worked as the Associate Producer for Twenty-Something Theatre, presenting Blue Surge, its World Premiere of Prodigals, and most recently Tough! Sarah also began taking a marketing managment course at BCIT, with an emphasis in fundraising practices — she heard that the skill might come in handy. 

Anne-Sophie Woolnough - Special Projects Manager
Anne-Sophie is freshly graduated from Simon Fraser University with a theatre performance major and a business minor. Most recently, she worked with Resounding Scream Theatre to produce and manage their tour of The Troubles as well as occasionally pulling double duty at Leaky Heaven administrative office. After moving to Vancouver from Toronto her passion for theatre has grown with the breadth of work she has seen and worked on. She is excited to work with Theatre Replacements on a new project.