Outside Eye

Ksenia Broda-Milian is a theatre artist, educator, and RHFAC Professional. She lives and works with gratitude on the lands of win-nipi/Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory, having travelled across the country designing, teaching, and training. Ksenia’s greatest artistic interests lie in creating designs that are manipulated by performers or interact with movement and space in terms of volume, staging, and transformation, in a process that recognizes the humanity of all involved. It is important to her to incorporate accessibility into her practice and teaching, and to advocate for it for theatre patrons, students, and artists.

Ksenia holds an MFA in Theatre Design from the University of Alberta, BA Honours in Theatre and BSc in Biology from the University of Winnipeg, and certificate in Exhibition Design from the Pratt Institute. Training includes the Royal MTC National Mentorship Program, Creative Manitoba, Ghost River Theatre’s Devised Intensive, and at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. As a Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification Professional, Ksenia is a qualified assessor of built environments. Studies in accessibility include Audio Description Training Retreats, many workshops with VocalEye, and coursework with Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

Recent set, costume, and lighting designs span scale and genre including for Prairie Theatre Exchange, Rainbow Stage, Chemainus Theatre Festival, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, the Village Conservatory, Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, Magnus Theatre, and working with emerging designers and disabled actors to put access needs at the forefront of the creative process (Tune to A, Expanse Festival 2022). Ksenia currently works in education and audience enrichment at a Canadian regional theatre.

Suzie Martin is an 8th-generation descendant of Pennsylvania-Dutch Mennonite settlers on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Neutral, and Haudenosaunee peoples in what is now called Waterloo County. Based on the Prairies since 1999, she gratefully lives and works as a theatre artist in win-nipi/Winnipeg on Treaty One territory.

Suzie has been creating, directing, and teaching theatre for over a decade. She directs and develops new work in a variety of styles including physical comedy without words, site-specific interactive installation, workshops and premieres of new scripted plays, and collaborative devising processes. She also has a passion for interpreting pre-existing texts through production whether that be through adapting non-theatrical source material for the stage or an iconoclastic interpretation of a classic. Suzie holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Alberta and a BAHons in Acting from the University of Winnipeg. She was nominated for a Sterling Award for Outstanding Direction for Fetch and holds a teaching award from the University of Alberta.

Directing work includes People Places and Things (guest director, University of Winnipeg, * cancelled due to COVID); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (guest director, Studio Theatre); Baba Yaga (AMTC); Fetch (Interloper Theatre); Tragedy: A Tragedy (Blarney Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Citadel Theatre Young Acting Company); Over Her Dead Body (Small Matters/FTA); Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi (Manitoba Underground Opera); God’s Ear (Studio Theatre); The Object of Constellations (Small Matters); The Cherry Orchard (Theatre by the River & little ECHO theatre); Artichoke Heart, The Gas Heart(Theatre Outgrabe).

Emma Welham is a director, actor and dramaturg based in Winnipeg Manitoba on Treaty 1 Territory. As an artist, her previous work includes: production dramaturg: Orlando (Royal MTC), director: To: Morrow (Sarasvati Productions) assistant director: Meet Me at Dawn (Theatre by the River), co-director/actor: Inhibition Exhibition (The Village Conservatory) actor: House at Pooh Corner (Manitoba Theatre for Young People), Student Body (Beau Theatre Company), School of Rock (Winnipeg Studio Theatre). Up next she will be apprentice directing A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder with Dry Cold Productions.

She holds a BAHons in Performance from the University of Winnipeg and is an alumni of the Village Conservatory for Music Theatre. From October 2020-April 2021 she was by mentored by Krista Jackson through Creative Manitoba Youth Mentorship Program, and is currently in mentorship with Sarah Garton Stanley through Royal MTC’s National Mentorship Program.