Kabrena Robinson: Playwright/Performer of Uprooted 

KayGeni: Playwright/Performer of Calypso’s Garden

Josemar: Playwright/Performer of 4 All The Dawgz 

Sue-Tanya Lee: Production Weaver

Candice Dixon: Costume Design

d’bi.young anitafrika: Artistic Director

Sashoya Simpson: Associate Artistic Director

Black Theatre School Practitioner Biographies:

Candice Dixon is a costume designer and Co-Founder of SugaCayne, a Toronto-based Carnival Arts collective. Her work blends tradition and technology, introducing Digital Technology to Caribbean Carnival costume design. Featured by outlets like CBC, CTV, and NOW Magazine, her designs have been exhibited at institutions including the Royal Ontario Museum, The Design Exchange, and the Ontario Science Centre. She also created and teaches Canada’s first accredited Carnival Arts course at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she continues to shape the future of Carnival through creativity, education, and innovation.

Josemar-Josimar Tulloch aka Josemar was born in the vibrant island of Jamaica where he began his artistic journey using buckets, sticks, pots, and pans to make music. That early love for rhythm and storytelling shaped him into a modern-day Renaissance artist—a Singer, Songwriter, Photographer, Actor, and Muay Thai Champion. A JUNO-nominated artist, his work is rooted in self-expression, healing, and transformation, blending movement, music, and narrative to inspire and connect with audiences.

Kabrena Robinson is a multidisciplinary theatre artist and cultural storyteller of Jamaican Maroon heritage. Her work explores identity, migration, queerness, motherhood and ancestral memory through biomyth monodrama, spoken word, and community-rooted storytelling. Drawing from Afro-Caribbean oral traditions, African spirituality, and lived experience as a queer immigrant woman, Kabrena creates art that honours the past while empowering new narratives.

KayGeni is a Bahamian Multidisciplinary Magik worker, Enchantress, Performer, Storyteller, Playwright, and Artist. Her music, art, and writing, explores themes of self development, love, personal growth, and empowerment, and is influenced by the rich cultural tapestry of Caribbean folklore and legacy of oral story telling.

Sue-Tanya Lee (she/her) is an Afro-Jamaican theatre producer and creator dedicated to developing works by artists from marginalised communities. Her producing practice centres care, culture, and imagination—creating and supporting spaces that advance artistic expression. Through a decolonised collaborative process, she engages with artists to develop and bring to life new ways of creating expansive work that moves art and audiences forward. Producing credits include: The Sankofa Trilogy (Theatre Centre, 2025); The Sankofa Trilogy (SummmerWorks Festival, 2025); Bitty-Bat & Friends (Toronto Fringe Festival, 2025); Neptune With A Fish (Paprika Festival, 2025); Star People (Leigha Lee Browne Theatre, 2024); The Refugee Hotel (Leigha Lee Browne Theatre, 2023).