Artists in Residence / Collaborating Artists
Grant MacDermott
Playwright in Residence (2021 & 2022)
Grant MacDermott (Playwright) Jasper won the TRU New Voices Award in 2018. Other plays include: The Play About The Head Transplant (Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi Finalist 2019, Wordsmyth Festival Semi-Finalist 2019), without you but also with you too as well (Play Penn Semi finalist 2017) An Independent Study on Race and the Brain (O'Neill Playwright's Festival Semi-Finalist 2014, PlayPenn Semi-Finalist 2015), and Like a Queen or Whatever (Project Y, Jersey City Theater). His most recent ten-minute play A Departure was named one of the Best 10-Minute Plays of 2019 and has been published by Smith and Kraus. Other works include: Dinner (Project Y, published by Indie Theater Now), Kings Richard (Boston Theatre Marathon), Sit Down, Daisy (Nylon Fusion Theatre, Barrow Group), What Men Do Alone On Islands (Come As You Are Festival), 10 Reasons Why Hamlet is Totally Gay (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). He has been a part of Interim Writers Writing Collective, Project Y Writers' Fellowship, and Athena's Writing Fellowship. He is originally from New Jersey.
Nicholas Aguilar
Music Director (The Dream Project)
NICHOLAS AGUILAR is a Mexico City based, Mexican-canadian guitarist, singer songwriter and music facilitator. He earned a degree in composition from Academia de Música Fermatta in Mexico City and a Masters in Leadership from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK. Nicholas has worked as a creative artist in various contexts including cross medium collaborations in theater, dance and visual art.