Evan Medd

Evan Medd (he/they) is a dramaturg, theatre-maker, producer, facilitator, and puppeteer who works across Turtle Island. His practice primarily focuses on dramaturgical strategizing of process design, community engaged art that intersects with environmental dialogues, and collaborative new play development and production with the Alberta-based Major Matt Mason Collective, for which they are a Co-Artistic Director. For three years now Evan has been developing and presenting a project called Flux In The City, an innovative participatory theatre experiment aimed at helping audiences connect more deeply to the municipal hopes and dreams they hold for their cities, and is currently researching and creating another community-driven, river-oriented project/initiative through Mudfoot Theatre called The Bow River Boat Pageant. Evan has also spearheaded an initiative called Dreaming Climate Consciousness, a collaborative process where participants work together to imagine eco-conscious futures through the lens of speculative/science fiction, which has found life in a wide array of contexts: issue-based performance creation, environmental education, team-building, and community engagement. Evan is passionate about utilizing creative practice as a means to stimulate imaginations while interrogating and examining the tensions that define our world.

Evan has been a part of The River Clyde Pageant for six years now, working as a member of the core team focusing on the project's puppetry elements. They have put time and energy into not only supporting the large scale puppet builds the Pageant is known for, but also in leading the facilitation of the Puppet Ensemble, building relationships and sharing performance skills with the Pageant community as the puppets are integrated into the larger performance. RCP and RCA have been instrumental in Evan's creative world, fuelling the evolving goals of his dramaturgical practice and also his desire to create similar community oriented projects closer to his homebase in Alberta, specifically in Calgary where rivers are so intrinsic to the city's culture. 

Evan is beyond excited to continue to support and nurture River Clyde Arts in the next steps of the organization's evolution!