Co-founder + Artistic Director

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 20 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 produces HOLD ON LET GO (formerly PushOFF), and in 2018 began a new project-based artist residency program for experimental makers, COLLIDER.

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’s currently working on a new work with longtime collaborator and friend, Veda Hille.

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Operations Director

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.

Senior Producer

Katie has been working as a Producer, Project and Programme Manager in theatre and festivals for over 15 years in London, Edinburgh and Vancouver. Most recently Katie was Programme Manager for Edinburgh International Book Festival, the largest public celebration of the written word in the world, and during the covid-19 pandemic worked in local government as Arts Development Programmer for the London Borough of Richmond.

Having moved to Vancouver in 2018, Katie produced the 2019 and 2020 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Industry Series and also worked for Capilano University, Vancouver Creative Space Society and Fight With A Stick Performance in a freelance capacity.

Prior to this Katie worked in London for 10 years, producing festivals and multi art-form events at Southbank Cente (the UK's largest arts centre), managing artist development programmes for the Regional Theatre Young Directors' Scheme and producing national and international tours at Battersea Arts Centre and Turtle Key Arts. Katie holds a Masters in Drama and Theatre Studies (specializing in Producing, Promoting and Managing Theatre) from the University of Kent.

Associate Producer

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).

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