BIO

Thea Fitz-James is part academic and part theatre practitioner. She holds a BA in Theatre from McGill, a Bachelor of Journalism from University of King’s College, and a Masters in Theatre & Performance Studies from York University. Thea is a theatre maker and performance artist, having created work with FADO in Toronto (Daughter’s Disease), Secret Theatre in Halifax (No Filter), Summerworks (Naked Ladies), and the School of Making/Thinking in New York. She has curated performance festivals for the Cucalorus Festival and is the current Associate Artistic Director for hub14. Her solo performance piece, NAKED LADIES, made international news when it was banned in Singapore in 2017, and her other solo show Drunk Girl has toured internationally and was extended during Edmonton Fringe 2017. In 2017/2018, she was one of the resident playwrights with Factory Theatre’s Natural Resources. She is currently working on her PhD in Performance Studies at York University, looking at knitting and textiles in activism and performance.

Thea Fitz-James identifies as part of the queer community (as a pan/bi sexual), and part of the ‘mad’ community, as manic, and is a white, cis female settler.