Carmela Sison

Carmela is a Filipina-Canadian artist privileged to live and work on the traditional, ancestral, and unsurrendered lands of the Coast Salish peoples of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. 

She is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program and has worked with many companies in Western Canada including The Arts Club Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Western Canada Theatre, Concrete Theatre, and Theatre Calgary as well an numerous film and tv projects. She is also working on a Tagalog translation and adaptation of Jovanni Sy’s A Taste of Empire with Nina Lee Aquino as dramaturg. She and Jovanni also participated in the Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac, Quebec in June 2019.