APT Peer Conversations Project: Maricris Rivera x Kodie Rollan

As part of the APT Peer Conversation Project, Maricris Rivera speaks with Kodie Rollan (Artistic Director, Chromatic Theatre) to unpack ways to minimize harm in the creative process and value humans first, before the art.

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Maricris Rivera (she/her) is a Filipina-Canadian performer, producer, and creator. She is a member of multi-award-winning multidisciplinary ensemble, the Tita Collective. Before producing with the Tita Collective, she co-produced the monthly dance showcase, Short Dances. As an administrator and producer, she’s worked with different theatre companies, such as Soulpepper, Tarragon, and the SummerWorks Festival. She is an alumna of Generator’s 2019-20 Artist Producer Training program. She is also a music arranger for Little Rebels Music & Development.

Previous Theatre and Performer Credits: My Big Fat Immigrant Christmas (Tita Collective, Bad Dog Theatre), Kwento (Tita Collective, Theatre Direct) Tita Jokes (Tita Collective, 2019 Toronto Fringe, 2020 Next Stage Theatre Festival), Tale of a Town (FiXT Point), The Renaissance Woman (BOSS Dance Company), Lily (In’Trinzik Dance Project).

In her spare time, she can be found playing platformer games on her Switch Lite and crying over The Last of Us.

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Kodie Rollan is a Philippine-born, Scarborough-raised, Mohkins’tsis-based playwright, dramaturg, lyricist, and producer. As an artist, much of his work revolves around equity-focused storytelling, community-building, creating equitable artistic processes, justice, and abolition. Kodie is currently the Artistic Director at Chromatic Theatre, the Assistant Dramaturg at the Banff Playwrights Lab, and an educational facilitator of the Rozsa Foundation in their arts leadership program. He holds his Masters in Arts Leadership from Queen’s University. Outside the arts world he holds a deep passion for basketball and baking.