The Trickster Institute is a beginning, culmination, and continuation of a lifelong practice of living alongside trickster. The Trickster is a deeply personal-archetypal figure and lives in the cracks between the undefinable. Trickster is defined by the undefinable, known as the unknowable. A gender bending, shape shifting, monstrous lover of all things, hungry and powerful, foolish and meek, one of our greatest teachers and un-learners.

Trickster is the one who teaches us about subversion and challenging power. Trickster tells us to celebrate the other, the strange, and the queer. Trickster offers a new-ancient knowledge system that is ancestral and future oriented. Through this exploration Philip offers a call to consider an alternative practice in theatre and performance that centres emergence, growth, and the unknowable, just like trickster. 

Philip Jonah Logan Geller (they/them) is Jewish (Ashkenazi) and Red River Michif (Métis) artist, educator, and scholar who is focused on decolonizing their process by listening to and dialoguing with ancestral and cultural knowledge. As a storyteller they have worked across Turtle Island as an actor, director, dramaturg, producer, clown, creator, and community worker with companies including Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Stratford Festival, Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Theatre YES, and Citadel Theatre. They hold a BFA in Acting (University of Alberta) and MFA in Directing (York University).