Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican American father and a Dutch British Canadian mother, Christine is now a grateful visitor to the Unceded Coast Salish Territories. Playwriting highlights include Never The Last (co-created with Molly MacKinnon), winner of a Significant Artistic Achievement Award, and Selfie, winner of a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (TYA), the Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Script, and a Tom Hendry Award for TYA. Christine is a Siminovitch Prize Protégé winner for playwriting and is currently playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre. She is a proud founding member of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition and holds a BFA in Acting from UBC.
Mexican playwright, screenwriter, director, and translator Paula Zelaya-Cervantes graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, with a double major in Theatre and Honours English Literature. Paula wrote and directed The Orbweaver/El Hilador (Cento Cultural Teatro 2, Mexico City; Centro Cultural Helénico, Mexico City; and Vancouver Fringe Festival International Mainstage Selection, 2016). Other playwriting and directing credits include Sasha & Spot (Teatro el Galeón, Mexico City) and 245 Acts of Unspeakable Evil, which she co-wrote with Ana González Bello, and which premiered off-Broadway in 2017 at the United Solo Festival. Paula has adapted and translated over twenty plays.
