TEAM
Meet the team on this project.
Dr. Taiwo Afolabi – Project Director (Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre, University of Regina)
Dr Taiwo Afolabi is an applied theatre practitioner with a decade of experience working across a variety of creative and community contexts in over dozen countries across four continents. He is the Director of the Centre of Socially Engage Theatre and an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina.
Christine Brubaker, Strategic Foresight PI (Associate Professor, University of Calgary)
Christine Brubaker is a director, writer and Associate Professor at UCalgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts. She specializes in new work and adaptation.
Lauren Allen, Communication Consultant
Lauren Allen is a theatre artist and filmmaker from Saskatoon now living in Toronto. She graduated from Grant MacEwan University in 2013 and has since worked across Canada as well as in France and England.
Yvette Nolan, Consultant
Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturg. Her works include the play The Unplugging, the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit. She co-created, with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight, the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt .
Ibukun Fasunhan, Research Assistant (PhD student, URegina)
Ibukun Fasunhan is a Director, Stage Manager, Playwright, and Producer. He is of one of the most sought-after stage managers in Nigeria, whose works has graced different theatres in the world.
Cali Sproule, Research Assistant (MFA student, UCalgary)
Cali Sproule (she/her)is a student pursuing her MFA with a specialization in Theatre Studies at the University of Calgary. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Theatre and Psychology at the University of Manitoba.
Suhana Patel, Research Assistant/Scribe
Suhana Patel, I am in my 4th year undergraduate psychology program at the University of Regina. Though originally from India, I spent the early years of my life in South Africa before moving down to Canada.
Parker Johnson, Community Facilitator
Parker Johnson is an adoptee from Savannah Georgia, who has grown up on the Traditional Territories of the Lekwungen People. It was in 2019 that Parker came up with the idea for This is Table Talk.
