Tania Etienne - Scenographer

Darren Copeland - Electroacoustic Sound Designer

Jim Ruxton - Interactive Design Engineer

Galen Scorer - New Media Program Designer

Laird MacDonald - Technical Director

Tania Etienne, a scenographer & theatre designer, is the creative impetus of 'The Walls Are Still Weeping'. Tania fuses direction and design to create 'total theatre' from a visual perspective through the synthesis of storytelling, environment and installation, creating a heightened experience and engagement for the audience. She has a Master of Arts in Scenography from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in the U.K. and attended the Academy of Performing Arts (D.A.M.U.) in the Czech Republic in 1999. She has created work for both dance and theatre. In 1999, she collaborated with Taiwanese choreographer/dancer Ching Chun Lee, creating the dance theatre piece Shinju No Niwa. Previous work includes: For Threshold Theatre: set, video & costume design for a new stage adaptation of Diane Schomplerlen¹s novel ŒForms of Devotion¹ 2002, production design for an environmental staging of Beckett's That Time, 2000 and set & costume design for O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, 1998; For the Shaw Festival: set & costume design for Rococo, 1994, Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress, 1994 and In the Zone, 1993; Assistant Designer for several productions at the Shaw Festival in 1993 and 1994.

Darren Copeland is an electroacoustic composer who is skilled in crafting sound specifically for environmental space and delicately interweaving theatrical narrative for theatre, installations and concert performances. He has studied electroacoustic composition at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax and Martin Bartlett and at the University of Birmingham, U.K. with Jonty Harrison. Special mentions of his works include: finalist in the New York City Festivals Award (Television and Radio) - for best sound production in his production of Terror & Erebus; a Dora Mavor Moore nomination for original sound design for Samuel Beckett's That Time; a mention in the documentary category of Phonurgia Nova (France) for Life Unseen; and a mention in the Ars Acoustica category of Ear International (Hungary) for the same work. He has been commissioned by the Danny Grossman Dance Company and the Open Ears Festival (Kitchener) and has been an audio artist in residence at Full Moon Over Killaloe Audio Art Workshop, Charles Street Video (Toronto), and La Muse en Circuit (France). His concert works are published by empreintes DIGITALes, an internationally recognised CD label for electroacoustic music. His work has been presented internationally in Italy, Germany, France, the United States, and across Canada. Darren has toured Europe and Canada hosting workshops, delivering lectures and presenting concerts as Artistic Director of Sound Travels.

Jim Ruxton is an artist/electronic engineer who creates kinetic/interactive environments for theatre, dance, film, and installations which allow the audience/performer to alter space through electronic/sensor technologies. His installations Convergence, 1997 and Heavy Breathing, 1998 were presented at Interaccess Media Arts Centre. He has collaborated with such artists as Graham Smith, Max Dean, Rae Davis, Barbara Sternberg, Daniel Olson, Camille Turner, Veronica Verkley, Phillip Barker and Nancy Patterson. He has also collaborated with dancers Mitch Kirsch and Jane Townsend, Susanna Hood and Cathy Gordon Marsh. He received his Master of Arts in Science from the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Ottawa in 1988 and in 1993 attended the Ontario College of Art and Design New Media Program. In 1994, Jim was awarded the Ontario College of Art Medal, the Dr. Eugene A. Pogetto Award and The Melville P. White Award. Jim is the sole proprietor of Cinematronics, specialising in electronic engineering for the arts and entertainment industry and special effects for film and television. He is the Director and Co-founder of the annual Subtle Technologies conference, a conference dedicated to the exploration of scientific and artistic exploration, now entering its fifth year of programming. Jim won two Dora awards in 2002 for set design and lighting design for Fides Kruker's show, Girl With No Door On Her Mouth.