This Is Beyond A Time Capsule of Queer Experience

Evan Tsitsias is Co-Artistic Director of Directors Lab North and the former artistic director of Eclipse Theatre Company. His writing includes Aftershock, The Murmuration of Starlings, Unstuck, Strange Mary Strange, the musical Inge(new), and the short film Bagged, which aired on the CBC. He's worked internationally and spent the last decade in Houston at Theatre Under the Stars. He is a member of the Lincoln Theater Center Directors Lab, Chicago Directors Lab, the Tarragon Playwright's Unit, Stratford Festival's New Play Development Program, and was a resident artist at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center. He's been nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award, the John Hirsch Directing Prize, the Tom Hendry Award, and received Honourable Mention for the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Prize. His book The Directors Lab was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2019. His work has been published in Germany, Canada, and the USA.

Zaiba Baig (she/they) is a writer, actor, and producer for stage and screen, as well as a workshop developer and facilitator for art-focused nonprofits. Baig's published works include their first play, Acha Bacha (2020, nominated for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize from the Writer's Trust of Canada), and an anthology of monologues they co-edited for queer/trans artists titled This Is Beyond (2023). Baig was a co-creator, executive producer, and lead actor in their Peabody Award-winning series Sort Of (2021-2023), for which Baig received the Canadian Screen Award for comedy writing and performance, as well as a Gotham Award nomination for performance in a new series. Baig has facilitated creative writing and playwriting programs for trans artists, BIPOC artists, and trans youth, including Trans Gemmes (2019-2020), Paprika Festival's Playwrights Unit (2019-2023), Being Me (2023-), and Dialogue Dolls (2023-).