Debbie Patterson: Debbie Patterson is a Winnipeg playwright, director and actor. Trained at the National Theatre School of Canada, she is a founding member of Shakespeare in the Ruins, served as Artistic Associate at Prairie Theatre Exchange from 2012 to 2018 and was a member of the Acting Company of the Stratford Festival in 2023. She is in demand across the country as a consultant on crip aesthetics/accessibility and as a dramaturge versed in disability aesthetics. She is a proud advocate for disability justice through her work as founding and current Artistic Director of Sick + Twisted Theatre. She lives a wheelchair-enabled life in Winnipeg (Treaty 1) and in a cabin on the shore of Lake Winnipeg (Treaty 2) with her partner and collaborator, Arne MacPherson. Alex Bulmer Named one of the most influential disabled artists by UK's Power Magazine, Alex Bulmer is an award-winning writer, actor, director, and educator with over thirty years of practice across theatre, film, radio and television. She is fuelled by a curiosity of the improbable, dedicated to interdependent practice, and deeply informed by her experience of becoming blind. Alex is co-founder of Fire and Rescue Arts, lead curator of CoMotionFestival with Harbourfront Centre, and former artistic director of Common Boots Theatre.

She established the groundbreaking New Writing department with Graeae Theatre in the UK, and is the award-winning writer of multiple BBC radio dramas, the writer of Breathe, which opened the London 2012 Olympics, the writer of the Dora-nominated plays SMUDGE and P erceptual Archaeology , and co-writer of the UK's BAFTA-nominated television series Cast Offs . Alex has been developing Disability Arts in Canada and abroad since 1990, and divides her practice between the UK and Canada.