Through the Eyes of God Program

Anusree is a two time Governor General’s Award-nominated and four-time Dora Award-winning writer, actor, and director.

Anusree is currently the Co-Executive Producer and writer for the Allegiance S3 (CBC) television series. She has also worked on Interview With The Vampire S3 (AMC), Allegiance S2 (CBC), Transplant S2 (NBC/Netflix/CTV), I Woke Up a Vampire (Netflix), SkyMed (Paramount+/CBC), Remedy (Global TV), Killjoys (SyFy), and Nurses S1 & S2 (NBC/Global TV).

For theatre, Anusree’s plays include: Through the Eyes of God, Sisters, Trident Moon, Little Pretty and The Exceptional, Sultans of the Street, Brothel # 9, Roshni, Letters to my Grandma, and Pyaasa. She is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Award, the RBC Emerging Artist Award, the Carol Bolt Award and the Siminovitch Protégé Prize. She was the 2018 finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (the largest and oldest playwriting prize for women writing for English-speaking theatre). Currently, she is the commissioned playwright at Tarragon Theatre, writing her new play, 147, 8th Street. Anusree is presently developing a feature film inspired by her audio play, Sisters, as well as directing and premiering her short films, The Birthday Party and God’s Plan (winner of Best Performance & Best Editing at WIFF). She is also an adjunct professor of playwriting at the University of Toronto and a professor of creative writing, teaching advanced drama to MFA students, at the University of British Columbia.

Anusree’s playwright residencies include: Nightwood Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, Factory Theatre, The Blyth Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Canadian Stage Company and Tarragon Theatre. Anusree spent two seasons as an actor at the Stratford Festival of Canada. She holds a B.A. from York University and an M.A. from the University of Toronto, and most of her plays have been published by Playwrights Canada Press. Anusree was a board member for Playwrights Canada Press for over five years and a juror for the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Michael Than Foundation Award, Toronto Arts Foundation Awards and the George Luscombe Mentorship Award. Her works have appeared in multiple anthologies including: Refractions: Scenes, Refractions: Solo, Love, Loss and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays, Truth in Play, Dramathemes, TOK: Writing the New Toronto, and Diaspora Dialogues Anthology. Anusree’s plays have been taught at the University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University, Wilfried Laurier University, the University of Calgary, the University of Guelph, the University of Regina, McGill University and the National Theatre School.

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For over 25 years, Thomas’ award-winning work as a director, playwright, dramaturg, movement director, and teacher has been seen nationally and internationally. He is currently the Executive Artistic Director of The National Theatre School of Canada English Section.

Flávia F. Martin (she/her) is a Portuguese-born Stage Manager and Company Manager based in Toronto. Some recent and not so recent credits include The Wind Coming Over The Sea (Blyth Festival), Blind Dates (Theatre Passe Muraille), Anna Karenina (George Brown College), Into the Woods (The Grove Theatre), No One’s Special at the Hot Dog Cart (Theatre Passe Muraille), On the Other Side of the Sea (Aluna Theatre), New(Necessary Angel), Rubble (co-production between Aluna Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille), Beautiful Renegades (Peggy Baker Dance Projects), Cacao: A Venezuelan Lament (Victoria Mata Productions), Light: A Tribute to Toni Morrison (Luminato Festival), The House of Bernarda Alba (Modern Times Theatre and Aluna Theatre), and Lätt Lûtf (Teatro de Creación Remota).

Dave DeGrow is proud to be returning to the TPM Backspace, where he started his career as the Backspace Coordinator and designer for Theatre Jones Roy. Dave has been part of some 400 productions across Canada, and has taught at the University of Toronto, Sheridan College and the National Theatre School of Canada. He is a founding member of the Means of Production Collective, hold a PhD from the University of Toronto, and is a Member Organizer with CUPE 3902.

Romeo Candido is an eight-time Dora Award nominee and three-time Sterling Award–winning composer and sound designer working across theatre, film, and television. He is an Emmy-nominated director and CSA-winning producer whose screen projects often combine composing, directing, and showrunning. His television work includes St. Jamestown (VisionTV), Topline (CBC Gem), and Gangnam Project (CBC, Netflix), alongside directing credits on Workin’ Moms (Netflix/CBC) and This Hour Has 22 Minutes (CBC). In theatre, Candido has composed and designed sound for leading Canadian companies including the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper Theatre Company, the National Arts Centre, and Crow’s Theatre. His award-winning musical Prison Dancer enjoyed sold-out runs at the Citadel Theatre and the National Arts Centre. He is a co-founding member of the Filipino music collective DATU, whose music has appeared across television and international advertising campaigns.

Based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal), Christine ML Lee is an award winning composer/sound designer, playwright and poet interested in the intersection between music, movement and storytelling. As a sound designer, she has won a META award for Centaur Theatre’s production of Three Women of Swatow and was nominated for a META award for her work on Psycho 6(Teesri Duniya Theatre). Christine has also worked on Bonnes Bonnes(Nervous Hunter & Théâtre aux écuries) and recently assisted Romeo Candido on Copperbelt(NAC & Soulpepper). Alumna of Nightwood Theatre’s Innovators Unit and Tapestry Opera’s LibLab, Christine is currently working on a musical, Just a Note, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal. Christine is excited and grateful to be part of Theatre Passe Murraille’s production of Through The Eyes of God!

Jawon is a Korean-Canadian Set and Costume designer based in Toronto. Her work has been seen on stages across the country, including Crow’s Theatre, National Arts Centre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Thousand Islands Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, LSPU Hall, Canadian Stage, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Stratford Festival, and Persephone Theatre.
She studied set and costume design at the National Theatre School of Canada and is a recipient of the Montreal English Theatre Award (META), and was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award.

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MinGyeong Lee is a scenographer and playwright from Seoul, South Korea. After graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada, she worked as a set and costume design assistant. She was awarded the 2023 Korea Arts Council Grant for Playwriting, and her play was presented in a public reading at the National Theatre Company of Korea in 2024.

Des’ree Gray is a Toronto based Costume Designer with experience in film

and theatre. She is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Production Design Program and takes pride in her abilities at all stages of the design process. She recently received two 2024 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for outstanding Costume Design, and a 2024 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design nomination.

Aidan Hammond works in collaborative production and is trained in theatre creation, health care assistance, and end of life care. Big thanks to the TTEOG team for such a wonderful process and immaculate vibes.

Some other favourite management credits across Turtle Island include: Invasion: Christmas Carol (Knifefight Theatre), Buzz’n’Bumble (Theatre Passe Muraille), Multipocalypse Livestream (Tricksters Media), culture.capital (Milton Lim and Patrick Blenkarn), The Huns (One Four One Collective), and Movements No. 1&2 (Babelle Theatre).