I'm Simone, a Queer multi-disciplinary artist, classically trained actor, experimental theatre creator, artistic leader and theorist. I hold an honours Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, in Acting from the University of Windsor wherein I extensively studied Shakespeare, Canadian theatre, Contact Improv, Clown, Anne Bogart's Viewpoints, and Laban among other styles. My professional experience scaffolds more than a decade of arts training in acting, dance, music, visual arts, and photography. I have come to hone my own practice of collective creation, physical theatre, and heightened realism centring a non-hierarchical creative process, merging together a multiplicity of artistic expressions to create a truly experiential smorgasbord. One built upon a foundation of community care, artistic honesty, and an aspiration for the nearly impossible. My work centres themes of loneliness, identity, the internet culture, and queerness as “being […] at odds with everything around it” (Bell Hooks).

I am one half of Arrowwod Theatre Company, alongside long-time creative partner, Kiera Publicover. Established in 2018, Arrowwood Theatre Company serves as a vehicle for our collective works. The company was founded with the mission of creating theatre that is accessible, community-engaged, responsive, and Queer. We have had the pleasure of creating original works for the Toronto Fringe Festival, in collaboration with Soulpepper, Crossroads Theatre (formerly Shakespeare in Action), and Bygone Theatre. This fall, we Arrowwood Theatre will be the company in residence with Bygone Theatre developing my original script, Suppressed, alongside theatrical research "Theatre of Cringe". 

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