Co-founder + Artistic Director
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Maiko Yamamoto is a Vancouver-based artist who creates new, experimental and intercultural works of performance. Many of these works are built through a career-long practice of collaboration and include theatre projects, public art works, and performance installations.

In 2003 Maiko co-founded the Vancouver-based performance company Theatre Replacement. For TR she has created over 25 new works, many of which have toured to festivals and venues around the world. These include: BIOBOXES: Artifiacting Human Experience, Yu-Fo, Train, Sexual Practices of the Japanese, Dress me up in your love, Town Choir, MINE and Best Life. She also curates and artistic produces the HOLD ON LET GO Festival; started COLLIDER, a residency program for experimental makers; and launched Accelerator Lab International Fellowship in 2024, a cohort-based program for 4 mid-career, Vancouver-based theatre artists focused on mentorship, shared learning, cultural exchange and experience in international networking. 

In addition, Maiko teaches performance and mentors artists for a range of different companies and organizations, both in Canada and abroad. She has helped artists to develop new work through programs like MAKE, a residency initiative spearheaded by 4 arts organizations in Ireland, the National Theatre School of Canada’s Acting Program, Action Hero’s You Can Be My Wingman residency, and why not theatre’s ThisGen Fellowship. She also occasionally works as a curator and writes about performance for a variety of publications.

She holds a BFA in Theatre from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and a Masters of Applied Arts in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She recently premiered End of Greatness, a new work with longtime collaborator and friend, Veda Hille.

Find out more about Maiko at: thelocalbubble.org

Operations Director
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Chelsea feels fortunate to work across multiple areas of theatre – as the Operations Director for Theatre Replacement, as an actor, independent theatre creator as well as providing operational support for The Chop Theatre, and is President of the Board of Directors at Theatre Conspiracy.

Having previously worked as TR’s Associate Producer Intern, Chelsea was thrilled to rejoin the TR team as their first Ops Manager in 2018, having admired the company’s work since attending theatre school at SFU, graduating with a BFA Hons in Theatre Performance and a love for experimental work.

In her artistic life, Chelsea has had the pleasure of working as an actor with Radix Theatre (on two iterations of acclaimed immersive performance TBD), Leaky Heaven Performance Society, rice and beans theatre, United Players, The Troika Collective, The Arts Club Actors Intensive, TR, and many others. She is a co-founder of experimental performance collective, O, o, o, o., with whom she has been fortunate to build and create a number of original works, and experimental stagings of beloved scripts.

Producer
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A theatre producer, director and dramaturg, Jamie King was raised on the salt and rain of the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (colonially, Vancouver). Before joining Theatre Replacement, Jamie worked as a producer with Caravan Farm Theatre, The Cultch, and Electric Company Theatre. As a director & creator they have been fortunate to have worked with Arts Club Theatre, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, Itsazoo Productions, Studio 58, Green Thumb Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Upintheair Theatre, Pacific Theatre, Rumble Theatre, Speakeasy Theatre and Bard on The Beach, as well as some incredible artist collectives. Their practice focuses on the development of new work that speaks to contemporary issues through a comedic lens (and with a lot of heart).

Find out more about Jamie at: jamiekinghere.com

Artistic Producer
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Kyle Loven is a queer performance and visual artist based on the unceded territories known as Vancouver. His work combines both constructed and found objects, unconventional storytelling, and various art forms with the human presence. His live performances have been seen in Amsterdam, Taipei, New York, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, and other US/Canadian cities. His work has premiered at major North American performance spaces: the Arts Club, the Guthrie Theater and On the Boards. Kyle is the recipient of grants from the Jim Henson Foundation and Canada Council for the Arts, among others. Awards include the Innovation in Puppetry Award at the National Puppetry Festival. He is the creator and host of the theatrical game night, Me Love BINGO!.

Find out more about Kyle at: kyleloven.com

Collaborating Artist + Associate Producer
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Amanda Sum is a performer and creator who dances between music and theatre. She has collaborated on interdisciplinary theatre works presented at SMUSH Gallery (Jersey City), On The Boards (Seattle) and SummerWorks (Toronto). Acting credits include Dance Nation (The Search Party), 4 seasons of the East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement), Sense and Sensibility (The Arts Club), and voice work for Assembly Hall (Kidd Pivot) and video game 1000xRESIST (sunset visitor). Musically, her latest EP does it make me naive if i’ve never been part of something where i’ve meant more to them than they did to me? was released in June 2024 and the accompanying film premiered at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival in November 2025. Her music video Different Than Before (2022) garnered a JUNO nomination and won the SXSW Music Video Jury Award (2023). As Theatre Replacement’s 2021 COLLIDER Artist, Amanda created New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert, which premiered in 2023 and continues to tour. She is currently working on her next full-length record and producing its accompanying theatre show, Comedy Special with Theatre Replacement. Amanda holds a BFA from SFU.

Find out more about Amanda at: amandasum.com

Administrative Assistant
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Jordyn Wood is a Vancouver-based arts administrator, theatre artist and producer. Their practice has been intentionally varied, jumping from devising to playwriting to directing to producing and arts administration. 

In 2021, Jordyn first worked with Theatre Replacement as an intern through SFU's School of Contemporary Art. Over the years they've worked on various TR projects, including Do You Mind If I Sit Here? (Production Assistant), Best Life (Production Assistant), Through My Lens (Stage Manager), PantoLand & PantoTown camps (Child Liaison) and in 2023 they joined the team as TR's Administrative Assistant.

In addition to their work with TR, they are the Company Producer of Glitch Theatre (formerly Realwheels) and the Playwright-in-Residence for Touchstone Theatre's Flying Start program to develop their play, Vascular Necrosis, set to premiere in 2026.

Find out more about Jordyn at: jordynwood.com