Paper Trails

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Live Acts Festival | 2025

Week 1: March 11 – 15 // Week 2: April 1 – 5, 2025

Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre and Assembly Space

SFU School for the Contemporary Arts

149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

Tickets: Students: $10 // SFU Faculty, Staff & Alumni: $15 // Seniors: $15 // General: $20

The culmination of creative research over two semesters, the Live Acts Festival 2025 is a presentation of BFA capstone projects created by SCA Theatre & Performance and Dance Majors. Over two weeks, 18 artists present solo or group works in a series of double bill programs, across three unique stage configurations – Proscenium, Alley, and in the Round – in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre.

Featuring Marissa Capron, Claire Duhamel, Katie Gherasim, Jae Gonzales, Lachlan Harris-Fiesel, Ruby Henderson, Jillian Jarin, Ruby Maher, Sandra Medeiros, Isabella Luna Onorato, Katie Schauerte, Lia Sieben, Janinne Swaby, TJ Tan, Ryan Tsang, Ruby Wu, Viviane Wu, and Clara Xu.

Festival Production Team: Coco Zhou (Festival Production Manager) and Dean Thivierge (Production Stage Manager)

Special Thanks

Technical Director: Ben Rogalsky

Manager, Production and Events: Emily Newman

Faculty Advisors: Kyla Gardiner, Rob Kitsos, James Long, Wladimiro Woyno Rodriguez

Technical Assistance: Goldcorp Center for the Arts Production and Events Services team

The Live Acts Festval was created and is presented on the ancestral and stolen land of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

PROGRAM FIVE | April 1 & 4 | 7:30 PM | Tickets: Inter Views + Paper Trails

Paper Trails by Jae Gonzales (Theatre & Performance)

Paper Trails is a shared exploration of grief through gathered sources. In this show, audience members become the performers as they read and enact texts and gestures drawn from the creative team. The language consists of letters written to loved ones, childhood stories, scripted dialogue, instructions, and physical gestures developed from these sources. Audience members will create the story and performance as they move through the materials. Paper Trails was created to ask audiences two questions: How do we grieve, remember, and let go? and, What will you risk for togetherness?

This performance contains audience interaction and participation; discussions of grief, death, and loss; discussion and description of self-harm; discussion and description of sexual assault; light haze; and bright lights.

Director: Jae Gonzales

Technical Director: Rue Larson

Lighting Design: Hannah Azam

Music/Sound: June Hsu

Stage Manager: Yuliia Piekh

Lighting Operator: Angela Peng

Sound Operator: Hermella Araya

Performers: Sarah Carter, Indah Del Bianco, Matteo Giannetta, Jae Gonzales, Darren Stewart, Mike Waddell

Special thanks: Bernice Paet