Discipline Category: Live Performing Arts

Joseph is a Winnipeg playwright, composer and designer. His works include the play How the Heavens Go, and the musical Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare, which received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding New Musical. A veteran of the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, Joseph is a two-time winner of the Harry Rintoul Memorial Award for Best New Manitoban Play, and the author of several hit Fringe musicals including Bloodsuckers!, Illuminati, and Lucrezia Borgia. He is a Playwriting graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

As a composer, arranger and sound designer, he has worked on several Winnipeg productions, including Jabber and Danny, King of the Basement for Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Ordinary Days for Winnipeg Studio Theatre and Liars at a Funeral for Prairie Theatre Exchange.

A lifelong computer geek with a B.Sc. in Computer Science, Joseph is also an avid coder, and is currently exploring the world of video game development and interactive storytelling.

Erica Wilson is an indigenous artist/community connector located in Winnipeg on Treaty one territory. She’s had an interesting journey with several companies that align with her morals within the arts, community and culture sector, starting off in Theatre Acting. Erica has had many opportunities to work with folks across Canada, which has helped build a community of amazing people. Being in many circles able to share her perspective in culture, arts and education within her city but also across Canada.
Erica is currently the Arts Community Director - Medium-sized Organizations and Board member of the Winnipeg Arts Council, Former - Creation Advisory Circle Member with the Indigenous Youth Roots, past highlights have been with the National Screen Institute as Co-Manager for their TikTok Accelerator for Indigenous creators for 3 years and Indigenous Leadership Development Institute's Stage Manager for their World Indigenous Business Forum in Colombia.  She’s always looking forward to continual years of learning, empowerment and creativity!