The Downstage Team

Since completing his schooling at the University of Lethbridge, Dylan has settled in to the Calgary arts scene. He loves all things technical; seeing a show come together and the impact it has on an audience is what keeps him passionate about his work. His main job is with One Yellow Rabbit where he lives as their resident technician. He is happy to add Downstage to this and is excited to work with them this season! Outside of these roles he finds himself all over town, assisting theatre performances and other live events in a variety of ways including setting up the lights, installing sets, and assisting with rigging. Some of these places include Vertigo, Theatre Calgary, ATP, and the Saddledome.

Born and raised in the Philippines, Bianca Miranda is a fat, queer, Filipino theatre artist, grateful to be living and working in Moh’kins’tsis, Treaty 7 Territory.  She is the Producer at Downstage. As a theatre-maker and playwright, her works most often start from a personal place and examines the intersections of her identities, born out of the necessity to tell stories of her communities that are underrepresented on stage.  Her favourite works include: “Kisapmata” (Chromatic Theatre & Lunchbox Theatre) and “The F Word” (A Downstage production, presented by Alberta Theatre Projects in association with Handsome Alice & Theatre Calgary), co-written and performed with Keshia Cheesman.  As an actor and performer, she has worked with theatre companies across the city, such as Hamlet Frequency (Shakespeare Company and One Yellow Rabbit), Little Red (Major Matt Mason and Ghost River Theatre), and Timmy, Tommy, and the Haunted Hotel (Pape & Taper). Bianca believes in the transformative power of theatre and storytelling.

Clare is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked with innovative creators across Turtle Island (Canada & US) as well as in Germany, Lebanon, Switzerland and Uganda. She has collaborated with Alberta Theatre Projects, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Banff Centre, Bayimba International Festival, BeMe Theatre, Blyth Festival, Buddies in Bad Times, Cahoots Theatre, Canadian Stage, Driftwood Theatre, Factory Theatre, fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre, FRICTION GROUP, Guild Theatre Whitehorse, Gwaandak Theatre, Handsome Alice Theatre, Kabin, Native Earth Performing Arts, New Harlem Productions, National Arts Centre, Nightwood Theatre, Paprika Festival, Stratford Festival, SummerWorks, Sundown Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Theatre Direct Canada, Theatre Monnot Beirut, Theatre Passe Muraille, Verb Theatre, Why Not Theatre and Young People’s Theatre, among others. She played Mathlete Caroline Kraft in the cult classic, Mean Girls (Paramount Pictures) and has acted in other feature films. Clare is a recipient of the Houselighters of the Citadel Theatre Award and has been nominated for various directing awards. She is the Artistic Director at Downstage.

Katherine (she/her) is a writer, producer, stand up comedian and mom to an almost-3-year-old who is her creative muse and actual boss. After living in Toronto and the US, Katherine is delighted to be moving to her hometown of Calgary to be a part of the dynamic Downstage team. Katherine has trained as an actor at RADA and BADA in London, UK, Stella Adler in NYC, and most recently performed on and produced her bi-weekly stand up comedy show “Pandemic Baby” at Comedy Bar in Toronto. She is the founder of Kabin, a social business that co-produces multi-disciplinary live arts including Dora-award winning “La Chasse-Galerie” (Soulpepper, Toronto) and “One Night Only: The Greatest Musical Never Written (Factory Theatre, Toronto) and devised and hosted a free interactive lecture series that catalyzed conversations between working artists and those who don’t identify as creatives. Katherine has an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology from Harvard and a Master of Arts from New York University on the theory of creativity. PLEASE NOTE: Katherine is on leave for the 2025-26 season.