Just Meetings / Doctes assemblées : Artist Bios

Meet the artists selected by our steering committee to celebrate the site’s relaunch. All selected creatives are engaging with the theme, “Just Meetings”. 

Rencontrez les artistes sélectionnés par notre comité directeur pour célébrer le relancement de notre site. Tous les créateurs sélectionnés abordent le thème “Doctes assemblées”.

Docteur en études théâtrales et en études et pratiques des arts, Enzo Giacomazzi est co-responsable de l’axe « Théorie et Critique » de la Société Québécoise d’Études Théâtrales (SQET) pour laquelle il en est également le secrétaire. Chargé de cours et membre de la rédaction de la revue Jeu, il collabore avec plusieurs groupes de recherche au Canada et en France.

Lorie Ganley est chercheuse émergente en arts vivants, titulaire d’une maîtrise en théorie théâtrale et dramaturgie à l’Université d’Ottawa. Elle s’intéresse aux dispositifs permettant de transformer le rôle traditionnel des spectateur·trices et aux fonctions mouvantes qu’ils·elles peuvent occuper dans le spectacle. En parallèle à ses recherches, elle enseigne la littérature au cégep de l’Outaouais.

Nicole Nolette est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en études des minorités et professeure agrégée au Département d’études françaises de l’Université de Waterloo. Pour son livre Jouer la traduction. Théâtre et
hétérolinguisme au Canada francophone (2015), elle a été lauréate du prix Ann-Saddlemyer de l’Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale et du Prix du meilleur ouvrage en théâtre de la Société québécoise d’études théâtrales pour la période 2014-2016. Son livre Traverser Toronto. Récits urbains et culture matérielle de la traduction théâtrale est paru aux Presses de l’Université de Montréal en 2024.

Chargé de cours et étudiant au doctorat en études littéraires de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, Pierre-Olivier Gaumond aborde, dans ses recherches, l’intégration et l’imaginaire des sciences dans les dramaturgies québécoises contemporaines [CRSH 2022-2026]. Récipiendaire du Prix de la recherche émergente 2021 de la Société québécoise d’études théâtrales (SQET), il a publié des articles scientifiques dans les revues savantes Percées – Explorations en arts vivants et MuseMedusa et est coresponsable de l’axe Théorie et critique de la SQET depuis 2023. Parallèlement à sa carrière académique, il est depuis 2017 conseiller dramaturgique auprès de plusieurs compagnies de création en arts vivants, et accompagnateur d’artistes au sein de la plateforme de recherche en arts Écotone – Espace d’expérimentation.

Sorouja Moll has a PhD in Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies (Concordia) specializing in the fields of Communication, English, and Art History. She also holds a BA and MA in English from the University of Guelph, School of English and Theatre. As an interdisciplinary multimedia artist and scholar,  Sorouja’s research-creation practice undertakes a multimodal critical discourse analysis of all forms of media including adaptations of Shakespeare in Canada, and an intersectional approach to nineteenth-century archival and narrative-based communication structures and their present-day manifestations in, among other areas, nation, memory, and identity. Moll’s areas of research-creation include the oral histories of mixed-race identity; Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationship re-building practices and education as meaningful and sustainable; and she explores the everyday incubatory spaces in which transgression, enunciation, ambiguity, and emancipation can be realized through performance, theatre, creative writing, painting, and research practices. As an award-winning author, Sorouja’s writing has been profiled on CBC Radio and published in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Theatre Review, as well as academic and literary journals, and books. As a playwright and performance artist, Sorouja’s work has been presented across Canada and abroad. Website: https://www.soroujawebsite.com/

Dr. Christine Mazumdar (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and SSHRC/Sport Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the department of Art Education at Concordia University where her research considers the interrelationship between sport and art. A former rhythmic gymnast and nationally certified coach, she is an EDI expert who advocates consent, agency, and bodily autonomy in aesthetic pedagogy through her SSHRC research project “Touch at a Distance: Examining Equity, Agency and Consent in Virtual Movement-Based Training Practices.” Her most recent artistic work, “Seaside Words for the Disappearing Girl”, explores themes of consent and land through performances in nature. “The Leotard Project” (2022), examines the gymnastic leotard as memory vessel, exploring trauma and abuse in sport. Christine was the recipient of the 2019 Routledge Prize at the Performance Studies international (PSi) conference for her paper “Like Rubber: Hyperflexibility, Contortion, and the ‘Freak-tastic’ Body,” and was longlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize for “Ballet for the Apocalypse” and the 2019 CBC Nonfiction Prize for her essay, “Reindeer at the Colloquium.” A writer, musician, and choreographer, Christine holds a PhD from the CDTPS at the University of Toronto.

Daniella Vinitski Mooney (PhD/MFA) is an award-winning actress, dramaturg, and devisor with an emphasis in redefining new narratives, and a focus on motherhood, disability justice, intermedial performance, and dance/theatre. Her recent monograph on immersive theatre was published by Routledge and lauded by Dr. Marvin Carlson, and she has taught theatre for the University of Pennsylvania, Ithaca College, York University, and the University of the Virgin Islands, among others, and currently teaches decolonization and equity for Algoma-Yorkville. Daniella also recently designed a physical theatre fundamentals course for Humber College.  Her current project is The Pearl, a multi-disciplinary solo performance about her father, an immigrant scientist credited with developing the MRI who went on to premature retirement and disability due to medical negligence. “The Most Caring Professor at UPenn.” Daniella is trained through the NYU Tisch School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and received her MFA through York University (OGS grant recipient).

Danny Atari is an award-winning Palestinian-Canadian animation artist living in Toronto.