Kevin Kerr is a co-founder of Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre, where he has worked as a member of the creative core since 1996. In various roles, including writer, director, actor, designer, and/or producer, he has collaborated on the creation of numerous works such as Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla , The Wake, The Score, Flop, The One That Got Away, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, The Fall, Palace Grand, Initiation Trilogy , and You Are Very Star. Other plays include Unity (1918) , Skydive , The Remittance Man , Secret World of Og , and Spine. He co-wrote the screen adaptation of The Score produced by Screen Siren Pictures for CBC Television and recently wrote dialogue for the National Film Board of Canada’s production of Stan Douglas’s interactive augmented reality experience Circa 1948. Kerr is a four-time recipient of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script and received the 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria.
Jonathon Young is a writer, designer, and co-founding artistic director of Electric Company Theatre, as well as an award-winning actor. Previous plays include Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla, The Score, and Palace Grand.
Jonathon Young’s previous collaborative plays include Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla, The Score, and Palace Grand. Young is a co-founders, with Kevin Kerr, Kim Collier, and David Hudgins, of Electric Company Theatre. Originally formed as a theatre collective in 1996, Electric Company Theatre is now a leading force in the Vancouver theatre scene, creating original work that is rich in spectacle, adventurous in form, and strong in narrative.
Kim Collier has co-authored seven original plays with Electric Company Theatre. In 2010 she was awarded the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for directing. She is currently resident artist at Canadian Stage in Toronto. Collier is a co-founder, along with Kevin Kerr, Jonathon Young, and David Hudgins, of Electric Company Theatre. Originally formed as a theatre collective in 1996, Electric Company Theatre is now a leading force in the Vancouver theatre scene, creating original work that is rich in spectacle, adventurous in form, and strong in narrative.
