Instead Gauri loses herself in the exciting world of Bollywood. There she meets a colorful cast of characters, including the washed up starlet, the Russian dancer and one lecherous director. A foreigner lost in a maze of masala, will Gauri find something more valuable than spandex, glitter, fancy footwork?
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Anita Rochon
(Director)
Anita works as a director, writer and actor in Vancouver and across the country. She's been involved in the development of more than 25 new works of theatre, ranging from movement-based pieces to verbatim theatre to traditional scripts. With her theatre company The Chop she's directed KISMET one to one hundred and directed the second two shows in the Patti Fedy trilogy. She performed in Theatre Replacement's BIOBOXES which has toured to OYR's High Performance Rodeo, the PuSh Festival, BC Scéne, The Theatre Centre and the FTA. In Vancouver she directed for Vancouver Opera, Théâtre la Seizième, Theatre Replacement and at her acting training alma mater, Studio 58. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School Directing program, a recipient of the 2011 Ray Michal Prize for outstanding body of work by an emerging director and in 2010 received the Siminovitch Protégé Prize.
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Cara Yeates
(Playwright-Performer)
A graduate of Dalhousie University’s Theatre Department, Cara has toured and performed four very successful one-woman shows across North America. Cara wrote the solo shows Knee Deep in Muck and Bye Bye Bombay. She won the ‘Pick of the Fringe’ Award for Best Actress at the Victoria Fringe for her show Knee Deep in Muck, and was nominated for the same award with Bye Bye Bombay. Cara was a dramaturge, produce and starred in Leah Bailly’s solo work Some Reckless Abandon. Reckless was performed as a part of the Summerworks National Series and UNO Festival. Cara was awarded the first ever Joanna Marratta Award at the Vancouver Fringe in 2009. This prestigious award celebrates artistic achievement and community leadership. As a prize Cara was awarded a mentorship with Fringe legend TJ Dawe. Together they collaborated with playwright Brendan McLeod to develop another one-woman show The Big Oops, which premiered at the Vancouver East Cultural Center in 2010. Cara has also acted in a range of media projects from Bollywood features and television shows, to independent films and web series. She has produced and hosted numerous segments for Vancouver’s Novus Television. Cara is currently living in New York.
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Heidi Grumelot
(Director)
Heidi Grumelot is the Artistic Director of Horse Trade Theater Group. She is co-creator and producer of the monthly storytelling show TOLD and the founding director of The Drafts, an acting ensemble responsible for development of over forty original plays to date as part of a monthly reading series. Heidi’s New York directing credits include Donnie and the Monsters at UNDER St. Marks, punkrock/lovesong at The Brick, Dido and Aeneas with The New York Collective of Performing Arts at The West End Theater and The Boston Early Music Festival, and productions in Michigan, Virginia, and Mexico. Prior to working at Horse Trade, Heidi worked for Laura Stanzyck Casting and The Public Theater's Casting Department.
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Jonno Katz
(Director)
Jonno has written, acted in and produced 5 solo shows (Uber Alice, Cactus, Jolly Roger, The Spy & The Accident) that have toured throughout Canada and Australia, winning awards and playing to sold-out houses. He has directed 4 full length solo theatre shows, Bye Bye Bombay, In God's Bedroom, Manners for Men and The Sputniks which have played in Australia, USA, Canada and Israel. Jonno has acted in around 40 short films and has made 6 short films that he wrote, directed and edited.
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Tarun Nayar
(Composer)
Tarun is a hybrid, a meeting point between east and west; a cross-cultural (con)fusion. He is a classically trained tabla player, a DJ, and a producer, obsessed with fusing tradtional asian sounds with wikked electronic beats. He performs globally, trains in Mumbai, and represents the Canadian massive in Vancouver. Tarun is currently performing with 3 projects; global music DJ collective Beats Without Borders; crazy celtic punjabi live electronic act Delhi2Dublin; and bhangra/ grime/ hip-hop
trio BPM.
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