Justin Miller (he/him) is an award-winning queer theatre artist, whose audience-centric work aims to celebrate the radical and transformative potential of collective experience. As his drag alter-ego Pearle Harbour, he has been called “one of the most engaging and thoughtful performance artists around” (NOW Magazine).

His original productions have been presented from coast-to-coast, to rave critical and audience acclaim, on some of the most prestigious stages in Canada. As a screenwriter, his work has been developed with NBC-Peacock, and is Canadian Screen Award-nominated.

Selected accolades include: the Audience Choice Award (SummerWorks), Outstanding Solo Performance (My Entertainment World), 4 Dora Mavor-Moore Award nominations, Finalist for the Playwright’s Guild of Canada John Palmer Award, Siminovitch Prize Protégé (nominee: Karen Hines), and Winner of the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Award for a Canadian Stage Performer. See more at pearleharbour.com.

Sandra Balcovske (dramaturge, she/her) graduated from the University of Lethbridge with BA in Philosophy, and spent two years in the University of Alberta Drama Department studying improvisational production. She joined The Second City, and was Creative Advisor for three years. Her work directing and dramaturging at The Second City was nominated for numerous Dora Awards. She was the director on the first full production of The Drowsy Chaperone, which went on to win several Tony Awards. Sandra was director and collaborating writer on a number of original productions, including Linda Griffiths’ Game of Inches, Karen Hines’ Pochsy’s Lips, Pochsy Unplugged, Oh, Baby, and CRAWLSPACE, and Nicky Guadagni’s Hooked. Sandra has been a writer/performer on CBC Radio and has worked extensively as a writer and story editor in television and film, including being story editor for Hines’ short films My Name is Pochsy and The Audit.

Sam Kruger (performer, sound designer, he/him) is a performer, playwright, sound designer, and recent immigrant to Canada. Since 2018 his works have toured to theatres and festivals around the world, including Canada (PuSh Festival, Summerworks), the UK (Soho Theatre, Summerhall), Portugal (Teatro do Barrio Alto), Denmark, Germany, and Australia. He is one half of theatre/performance/comedy duo Creepy Boys, whose show SLUGS was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2025. Kruger’s emphasis is in the creation of original theatre that draws on Lecoq-style physical theatre, Gaulier-esqe clown, performance art, and surrealism. Often exploring themes of isolation, alienation, and the performativity of everyday life, Kruger’s work is funny, physical, stupid, sincere, wiggly and proudly weird. He holds a BA from the University of Minnesota, and is a graduate of the École Philippe Gaulier, in Étampes, France.

S.E. Grummett (outside eye, they/them) is a queer, transgender theatre artist, clown and puppeteer originally from Treaty 6 Territory. Over the past decade, Grumms has created a body of original queer work and toured it around the world including presentations at PuSh, Summerworks, Rhubarb Festival, Soho Theatre (UK), Teatro do Bairro Alto (Portugal), H2O (Copenhagen), Prague Quadrennial (Czechia) and Midsumma (Melbourne). They are one half of performance art/comedy duo “Creepy Boys”, recently nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award, (often called the “Oscars of Comedy” whose past nominees include Bo Burnham, Flight of the Concords and Mae Martin). Their shows, “Something in the Water”, “Homebuddies” and “SLUGS” combine object theatre with queer clown into work that is “brilliantly stupid and beautifully stupid” (The Guardian).

Grumms is the recipient of the 2022 RBC Outstanding Award in recognition for their contribution to the queer and trans community across Saskatchewan, and recently won the inaugural 2SLGBTQIA+ Multidisciplinary Artist Award presented by the Sask Foundation for the Arts.

Greg Morrison (musical director, he/him) is best known for his work on the musical, The Drowsy Chaperone. Productions from the Toronto Fringe Festival to Broadway. Other theatre credits include musical collaboration and musical direction for Karen Hines’ early Pochsy Plays. Score and performance for Canadian Horror Clowns, Mump and Smoot.

Scores for short films: Hines’ Pochsy: An Industrial Film and A Tax on Pochsy, Audrey Webb’s New Shoes, and Pearle Harbour’s Bunker Time! Songs for the feature, Treading Water (Rhombus Media). Songs for television: Slings and Arrows and Sensitive Skin (Rhombus Media), Getting Along Famously and Michael: Everyday (CBC).

Recently produced and curated, A Glimpse into the CreaDve Process of Rob Gonsalves. A multi-media art and music installation exploring the creative process of the late great Canadian artist, Rob Gonsalves.

Rebecca Ballarin (she/her) is a director, producer and arts administrator passionate about community building and creating opportunities for artists to make art. Originally from Peterborough, Ontario she recently spent four years in Whitehorse, Yukon as Gwaandak Theatre’s General Manager, and will soon be moving to Nova Scotia to work as the General Manager of Ship’s Company Theatre. She is Pearle Harbour’s Artistic Producer, and the Artistic Producer of Tweed & Company Theatre.

Recent credits include: As Director: The Rocky Horror Show (Tweed & Co), the first staged reading of Sydney Wolf’s Vengeance of a Hellhound (Drama Finalist, 2025 Tom Hendry Awards), and the internationally touring Pearle Harbour’s Agit-Pop!; As Production Coordinator: A Raccoon Solstice (Animacy Theatre Collective & Theatre Direct); As Director/Co-Creator: A new theatrical adaptation of Canadian children’s book In The Clouds by Elly MacKay with collaborator Eliza Martin. Since 2021 she has directed over 20 audiobook titles for Penguin Random House Canada.