ARTISTS

Hollywood Jade Associate Choreographer

A visionary with a passion for excellence, Hollywood Jade wears multiple hats as a choreographer, artistic director, performance coach, and media personality, among others. Selected Credits: Choreographer, Sleeping Beauty (Capitol Theatre), Choreographer, The Soul Of Motown (Stage West), Resident Choreographer/ Guest judge Canada’s Drag Race (Crave/World Of Wonder), Assistant Choreographer, The United States vs Billie Holiday (Hulu), Choreographer, Queen Tut (Fae), Choreographer, Accused (Fox).

Tereka Tyler-Davis Associate Choreographer

Tereka T is a passionate performing artist and dance professional, always looking for ways to explore and tell diverse stories. She has appeared on screen and on stages in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Selected Credits: Facing Home: Love and Redemption (Kashedance), Shades (Esie Mensah Creations), Tribute to Harry Belafonte (Culchaworks), and Margarita (Holla Jazz). Awards: Tereka won a Dora Award for Best Ensemble as part of the cast of FLOOR’D (Holla Jazz). Film/TV: She has appeared in series American Gods and Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker and Canadian film Door Mouse.

Sean Mayes Music Supervisor & Composer

Based in New York & Toronto, Sean Mayes enjoys a varied career as a conductor, music director, orchestrator, arranger, composer, author & educator, spanning the range of numerous musical styles between Broadway, theatre, opera, classical & pops. Conducting Credits: Hadestown & MJ (Broadway), The Color Purple (Canadian Premiere), and Black Broadway with American Pops Orchestra (PBS National Broadcast). Other Credits: Come From Away (Music Supervisor, Finland), Aportia Chryptych (Composer/ Music Supervisor, Canadian Opera Company), King Lear (Composer, Stratford 2023). André De Shields with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Orchestrations, Music Direction). Other: Co-author of An Inconvenient History of Black British Musical Theatre & Reframing the Musical (Bloomsbury).

Camellia Koo Set Designer

Camellia is a Toronto based set and costume designer for theatre, opera, dance and site-specific performance installations and collaborations. Recent Theatre and Opera Credits: collaborations with The Electric Company, Factory Theatre, The National Arts Centre, Soulpepper Theatre, The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Against the Grain, Banff Centre, Boston Lyric Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Edmonton Opera, Helikon Opera (Moscow), Minnesota Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, Santa Fe Opera, and Tapestry New Opera. Awards: Camellia has received six Dora Mavor Moor Awards (Toronto), a Sterling Award (Edmonton), a Chalmers Award Grant, 2006 Siminovitch Protégé Prize, and the 2016 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award for Costume Design.