Creative Team
Rick Miller is a Dora and Gemini award-winning writer / director / actor / musician / educator who has performed in five languages on five continents, and who Entertainment Weekly called “one of the 100 most creative people alive today”. He has created and toured solo shows such as the BOOM Trilogy (BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ), MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL; and family shows with Craig Francis and Kidoons, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, and FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book. With Robert Lepage, he has collaborated on Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, The Dragon’s Trilogy, and on the film Possible Worlds. Current projects in development include MONEY, HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales, and The Time Machine. Rick hosts an intergenerational podcast called Xing The Gap, and sometimes teaches an interdisciplinary class at the University of Toronto called The Architecture of Creativity. He lives in Toronto with his partner Stephanie Baptist. www.rickmiller.ca
Craig Francis (he/him) is a writer, director, illustrator, and multidisciplinary creator. His shows have toured Canada and the US, including Off-Broadway in 2016 and 2019. A founding member of The 20K Collective, Craig co-created Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Game of Clones, Jungle Book, and HANS: My Life In Fairy Tales with Rick Miller; and FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book with Miller and Paul Van Dyck. He's a producer, dramaturg, and stage manager for Miller's solo trilogy (BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ) in Canada, US, France, and Taiwan. Craig co-directed a workshop of new musical Blocked (TheaterWorksUSA), and mentors emerging artists, including co-authoring Redwood Avenue with Andrea Friesen. New projects include CYNIC and The Time Machine. Craig is a speaker on LGBTQA2S+ issues. He performed improv comedy with Just For Laughs, CBC, CTV and Showtime. Videos he co-created with Kidoons and not-for-profit organizations are in museums in six provinces. Craig lives in Montréal, has illustrated books, and voiced animated series.
David Leclerc is a motion graphic designer based in Quebec City. He has worked on productions with Robert Lepage's Ex Machina, including The Andersen Project, Lipsynch, The Blue Dragon, La Tempête, Playing Cards SPADES and HEARTS and the opera The Tempest (presented at the MET). His works include Je Pense à Yu directed by Marie Gignac, Nick Dear's Frankenstein directed by Jean Leclerc, Bernstein's Candide directed by Sam Brown (L'Opéra National de Lorraine), Vania by Marie Gignac, and Rick Miller's BOOM. Since 2003 he's collaborated on the production of the prestigious Forces AVENIR galas that recognize, honour and promote student involvement at all academic levels. studiobionic.com
Born and raised in Quebec City, Bruno graduated from Cegep Limoilou in 2005 in audiovisual design. He began his career as a lighting designer for concerts, from Richard Séguin to Charlotte Cardin to Cypress Hill to Daniel Lanois. To expand his creative research, Bruno worked on several bold theatre productions: with Ex Machina and Kidoons, he found ways to seamlessly integrate lighting with video under rigorous technical constraints. He has worked with La Rotonde choreographers on dance productions such as Alan Lake’s Les Caveaux. Bruno designs for the circus with Flip Fabrique to Machine de Cirque, a natural fulfillment of his experience in music, theatre and movement.
Composition for theatre includes The 39 Steps, A Few Good Men (Theatre Aquarius), Frost Nixon (Canadian Stage), Tuesdays with Morrie (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company), Salt-Water Moon, Jitters, The Norman Conquests (SOULPEPPER), The Importance of Being Earnest (NAC), David Widdicombe’s Science Fiction (the play) and Rick Miller’s BOOM and BOOM X.
Originally from Montreal, Yannik Larivée trained at the National Theatre school of Canada and at Central Saint-Martins in London. Select credits include: Die Fledermaus at Nurenberg Staatstheater; Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail for the Opera National du Rhin, France; Barbe-Bleue for Opera Zuid in the Netherlands; Watch Her, Wolf’s Court and Monument for the National Ballet of Canada; One of Three for American Ballet Theater, Lincoln Centre; Dreamland for the Royal Swedish Ballet; Castle Nowhere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Dangerous Liaisons, The Odd Couple, Houdini, Amadeus (Critics Circle Award); and Teatro Nacional de Cuba in Havana. yanniklarivee.com
The founding Artistic Director of Why Not Theatre, Ravi has established himself with his inventive productions, international collaborations and innovative producing models. Select credits include A Brimful of Asha, Fault Lines, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Soulpepper), Alanna Mitchell’s Sea Sick (co-directed with Franco Boni, Theatre Centre), Lisa Codrington’s The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God and Sarena Parmar’s The Orchard After Chekhov (Shaw Festival), Salt-Water Moon (Factory Theatre), Prince Hamlet (Why Not Theatre). He is adapting The Mahabharata with Why Not Theatre and the Shaw Festival.