OUR MISSION To create dynamic, immersive theatre events for daring audiences
ITSAZOO Productions creates immersive, dynamic theatre events for daring audiences. We support this with five core values: Immersion, Challenge, Fun, Integrity, and Community. Whether it’s a fly-on-the-wall, immersive experience or a participatory, site specific event, we can create theatre for anyone, anytime, anywhere. We don’t want our audience to just watch the story. We want our audience to experience the world of the story; to live through it.
Sebastien Archibald
Sebastien (he/him) is a Producer, Actor and Playwright living on the ancestral and stolen lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations with his amazing wife and two glorious children. Having joined ITSAZOO in 2006, Sebastien is proud to now co-lead the company that was instrumental in his development as a theatre practitioner, continuing to provide local artists with unique, challenging opportunities in award winning productions.
For ITSAZOO, he has created and/or produced numerous shows, most recently: The Effect (with Rumble Theatre); Meeting (with Pacific Theatre); Sunrise Betties; The Café (with Aphotic Theatre); Straight White Men (with Gateway Theatre); The Pipeline Project (with Savage Society); WET; Hidden.
As an Actor, Sebastien has worked with the Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, Firehall Arts Centre, Pacific Theatre, Ruby Slippers, Gateway Theatre, Touchstone, Axis and many more. He has received four Jessie nominations and a LEO nomination for acting and a Jessie nomination for playwriting. Recent playwriting credits include: Eyes of the Beast (co-written with Gavan Cheema & Kelsey Kanatan Wavey, Neworld Theatre); Father’s Day (part of The Cafe), The Pipeline Project (co-written with Kevin Loring & Quelemia Sparrow). Playwriting awards include: PACT Green Award; Canadian Association of Journalists – Silver; the Bottle Tree National Playwriting Competition; Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition; Monday Magazine ‘M’ Award. Sebastien holds a BFA from the Phoenix Theatre, University of Victoria.
Paige Louter
As Co-Artistic Producer, Paige’s focus is on solid organizational systems, consent-forward working practices, sustainability, psychological safety, resilience, and making sure we’re not perpetually suffering in this shared pursuit of creating ephemeral bits of art. She is excited by thorny, funny, hopeful theatre, whether tried-and-tested or brand-new.
Some recent credits: Producing The Effect (Rumble/ITSAZOO), Meeting (Pacific Theatre/Neworld/ITSAZOO), Sunrise Betties, The Cafe (Aphotic/ITSAZOO), and performing in Coarse: The Brontes (Edinburgh Fringe) and The Effect, and work-in-progress showings of solo show Nod in Peek Show, COLLIDE Fest, and Tremors Festival. Upcoming: Solo show God Joke Play.
Chelsea Haberlin
Chelsea has lived most of her life on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people, specifically the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and is honoured to call this gorgeous place her home. She is a white woman of mixed Italian-Scottish-English-Swiss heritage. She is a mom and is married to theatre artist Sebastien Archibald.
Chelsea has been creating theatre in some form since she was a very little girl making plays in her basement. She is the Artistic Director of Neworld Theatre and Associate Artist with ITSAZOO Productions, a company she co-founded in 2004. As a director she has worked with: ITSAZOO Productions, Neworld Theatre, Arts Club Theatre, Firehall Arts Centre, Theatre SKAM, Pacific Theatre, Delinquent Theatre, Studio 58, and many more. Chelsea is forever searching for new ways to surprise and engage an audience and is particularly passionate about meaningful collaboration, immersive environments, community engagement, and reconciliation.
Chelsea has an MFA in directing from UBC; a BFA from UVic; is currently an adjunct professor at UBC; recipient of the Sydney J Risk award in directing; the Ray Michal award for outstanding body of work by an emerging director; two-time winner and five-time Jessie Richardson Award nominee for Outstanding Direction. She a member of the advisory committee for Balancing Act, sits on the boards of the Vancouver Creative Space Society, Creekview Housing Coop (where she is grateful to live!) and Aenigma Theatre.
Cheyenne Rouleau
Cheyenne is a writer, actor and producer from Vancouver, Canada. She is currently working on her first full length play, The Sunrise Betties, in development with ITSAZOO. Other writing credits include The After After Party (The Cultch), Lady Parts (Pi Theatre and Revolver Festival 2019), Karaoke: The Musical (Studio 58), and The Bush Party (Theatre SKAM). Her screenplay Saint Joan’s Seven was presented as one of seven new Canadian screenplays at TIFF 2018’s Pitch This! Competition. As an actor Cheyenne has recently appeared in Ghosting (Freeform), Bravo Network’s Imposters, and Red Letter Films docu-drama Maux Mysteres. Her hit show The After After Party was the recipient of the Pick Of The Fringe, Georgia Straight’s Critics Choice Award, and the coveted CULTCHivating the Fringe Award (Vancouver 2016) and will be touring to Winnipeg Fringe this summer. Cheyenne is a graduate of Studio 58.
Meredith Grantier
Meredith Grantier is a Designer in Residence with ITSAZOO Productions. She is a graduate of Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology’s Theatre Department and holds a BFA Theatre Major from the University of Victoria. Her Costume Design credits with the company include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Casualties of Progress, Indiana Jones and the Wannabe Nemeses, Five Red Balloons, The Road to Canterbury, Robin Hood, Chairs, Mojo, The Flick and Death of a Clown for which she earned a Jessie Richardson Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design. She is presently the Creative Director for the international women’s wear label Papillon.
Kyle Sutherland
Kyle has been a Set Designer and Scenic Carpenter since graduating with a BFA from UVic’s Theatre Program in 2004. He now serves as a Head Scenic Carpenter at the Great Northern Way Scene Shop in Vancouver (www.gnwshop.ca) and has built countless theatre, opera and other performance art sets, a few film productions, and many differing fine art installations and corporate setups. Kyle worked as a Designer-In-Residence with ITSAZOO from 2007 to 2012, designing and building the sets and props for nearly every show during that time period.
Colby Wilson
Colby co-founded ITSAZOO along with Chelsea Haberlin and Trevor Hinton in 2004 while all three were students at UVic’s Phoenix Theatre. The three collaborated on a production of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, performed in Victoria’s Solstice Cafe, and history was made.
From 2004 to 2014, Colby was involved in nearly every single ITSAZOO Production including acting in over 20 shows, co-producing many and co-creating what would eventually become our Halloween hit, Hidden. Long-time ITSAZOO fans will remember Colby’s numerous fantastic performances in Casualties of Progress, The Road To Canterbury, Robin Hood, and Death of a Clown. And, of course, his hilarious and award-winning turn as Hansel in Grimm Tales; his suave London gangster in Mojo: his unforgettably menacing titular hitman in Killer Joe.
Board of Directors
Caitlin Fysh – Chair
Majd Qutob – Treasurer
Byron Flekk – Director
August Winter – Director
Stephen Kennedy – Director
Linnea Perry – Director
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ITSAZOO Productions is a non-profit incorporated society and registered charity. Donations accepted through Canada Helps.