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 an award-winning multidisciplinary artist who has worked with innovative creators across Canada as well as in Germany, Lebanon, Switzerland, Uganda and the USA.

Selected theatre directing credits include Botticelli in the Fire, Men Express Their Feelings (Downstage, Hit & Myth), Peril in the Alps (Vertigo), Liars at a Funeral (Alberta Theatre Projects, Western Canada Theatre), Beautiful Man (Downstage, Handsome Alice, Verb), A Poem for Rabia (Tarragon Theatre co-directed with Donna-Michelle St. Bernard), A Dinner Party, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Myth of the Ostrich (Whitehorse Guild), Bystander (Gwaandak Theatre), White Girls in Moccasins (Rhubarb Festival), CAKE (Bayimba Festival, New Harlem Productions, Theatre Passe Muraille), Tuesdays & Sundays (Sundown Theatre), L’armoire des ombres (Le Monnot Theatre Beirut), Salome’s Clothes (SummerWorks), among others. 

Clare made her feature directorial debut with Do Us Part, which premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2025 and recently directed the allegorical short film Hunt/Peck, set for release in 2026. As an actor, she is known for playing Mathlete Caroline Krafft in the original Mean Girls, among other screen roles.

Clare is the Artistic Director of Downstage in Calgary.

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.