The Creative Team

Colleen Snell

Dramaturge, Sound Designer

Colleen Snell is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Frog in Hand. She works with a broad range of dance and movement organizations in a variety of roles including educator, choreographer, collaborator, outside eye, fight director, and performer. Colleen’s choreographic tendencies lean toward large-scale ensemble work and stories inspired by science fiction. Her collaborative choreographic process and work are highly regarded, as is her work in improvisation and site-specific production.

She's a home bartender with a passion for gin and tonics.

Photo credit: Audrianna Martin del Campo

Kat Honey

Graphic Design

Kat Honey is an award-winning graduate of OCAD. Kat's work in collage, signage and painting is informed by an extensive graphic design background. Recent exhibitions include: In Situ Multi Arts Festival, The Red Head Gallery, Come up to My Room at Gladstone House, The Artist Project and Fashion Art Toronto. Kat’s first book of art — Kat Honey: Collage and Decollage — came out in 2023. As an instructor, Kat leads courses and workshops online and in-person, as well as lecturing and jurying exhibitions, and is the host of the popular free Virtual Collage Jam on YouTube.

www.kalhoney.ca

Andrew Gaboury

Performance Director

Andrew Gaboury is a performer, writer and educator based in Port Credit, Mississauga. The desire to bring a sense of wonder and joy to the everyday is central to his practice. As a performer, he employs techniques from theatrical clown, collective creation, dance, puppetry and community arts. As a writer, Andrew has explored a variety of mediums, including play script, poetry, and recently a video game. Andrew is a company member with Mississauga-based, site-specific dance-theatre company Frog In Hand. He is Acting Executive Director and a therapeutic clown practitioner with Red Nose Remedy – a company founded by award-winning clown Helen Donnelly.

Noelle Hamlyn

Scenographer

Holding credentials in Craft, Fine Art and Costuming, Noelle uses craft-practices to mediate embodied experience and memory. She blends the technical and conceptual - recognizing hands respond to their tacit subjective experience. Intrigued by textures, ideas, the world and being in it, she believes objects have the power to absorb time, conjure experience, and hold stories. Noelle’s work has represented Canada at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale, South Korea (2009), Love Lace International Lace Competition Power House Museum, Australia (2011-13?), and the Biennale Internationale du Lin de Portneuf – Deschambault, Quebec (20130. Her work is in permeant collections at the Cambridge Art Gallery, Peel Art Museum + Archives, the City of Mississauga, and Daniels Corporation. Accolades include Finalist in the 2017 and 2021 Salt Spring National Art Prize, Best in Show at TOAE (2014, 2019) and the Carnegie Craft Biennale, (2013).  Noelle’s practice has been supported by the Canada, Ontario, and Mississauga Arts Councils, and with residencies at the Banff Centre, Harbourfront Centre, Burren College of Art, Salt Spring Arts Council, Newfoundland Craft Council, and Barefoot College, Tanzania. Noelle’s studio practice includes professional theatre costume work. She is Head of Wardrobe at Mirvish (CAA Theatre) and the Co- Founder / Production Designer with the dance-theatre company Frog in Hand Productions Inc.

Abby Silvera (they/she/he)

Dancer

My name is Abby Silvera (they/she/he) and i am a dancer, poet, actor, musician and creator currently living on the stolen land that we call “Toronto.” I grew up dancing in British Columbia and graduated from Randolph College for the Performing Arts in 2020. recent credits include: movement direction for hyacinth, death and a ghost (moonwatcher), Cairo in Noir (Frog in Hand), Olivia in Sugar Plum (Nightwood Theatre), a creator/performer in this is our religion (snork mimimi collective, with support from nightswimming and the OAC), Alex/Ensemble in War of the Worlds (Frog in Hand)

Photo credit: Dahlia Katz