As Lead Faculty at Soulpepper Theatre Academy, award-winning playwright-performer, scholar and activist d’bi.young anitafrika leads the Soulpepper Theatre Academy through a Biomyth Performance Making module using the Anitafrika Method. Biomyth integrates elements of personal biography, mythology, and (this year) poetry into a unique narrative. d’bi.young has been guiding the artists in a one-of-a-kind performance training module on Decolonial Performance Praxis inviting them to critically examine their own experiences, explore and experiment artistically with their newfound self-knowledge, and to connect their work to a broader societal context. The module culminates in a public sharing.

2024 Academy Artists: Alicia Barban, Belinda Corpuz, Ben Kopp, Ruaridh MacDonald, and Haneul Yi.