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We are thrilled to announce that our 2025 COLLIDER Artist is ellis cheadle! TR has long been a fan of ellis and her work and we look forward to supporting her over the next couple of seasons. Please join us in warmly welcoming ellis to COLLIDER. ellis cheadle is a theatre artist living and working on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations. She holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, and a diploma from Mount Royal University’s acting conservatory program. ellis is a collaborator, writer, director, and dramaturg with a practice focused on devised and experimental theatre. She is drawn to slow creation processes and is increasingly dedicated to making malleable theatrical set-lists that can responsively adapt to requirements of scale, duration, location, and collaborator curiosities. Her work regularly plays in the realms of the absurd and existential, and delights in collaging seemingly incongruous genres, themes, and materials. She believes it is a political act to find meaning and form in seeming chaos — and uses theatre to practise that skill collectively. Recently, ellis’ work has been shared at the PuSh Festival, Boombox, Exquisite Pressure, Festival de Casteliers, Schaubude Berlin, Centre A Gallery, and the rEvolver Festival. In January 2025 she completed the Block D dramaturgy program through the Playwrights Theatre Centre. Later this month, ellis will be travelling to Montreal as a dramaturg and performer with Hong Kong Exile’s Heaven FM presented at Festival TransAmériques. ellis is joining our 2024 COLLIDER Artist Anjela Magpantay as she continues work on It is for when you meet me. Both artists will be presenting their work at a future edition of HOLD ON LET GO.
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