Sherry J. Yoon, Artistic Director of Boca del Lupo, is a theatre creator and director with a passion for creating new performances through collaborative pursuits. With Boca del Lupo, Sherry has co-created more than 35 productions, including: Fall Away Home, an intergenerational site-specific production in the forest of Stanley Park; Photog, a large-scale show that toured across Canada and was created with interviews from prominent conflict photographers; and You Are It, as part of the Silver commissions from the Arts Club Theatre that investigates the complex dynamics between female friendships. During Sherry’s tenure, the company has received numerous awards, including the Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, and Jessie Awards for Outstanding Production, Design, Actor, Ensemble, as well as the Critic’s Choice Innovation Award. Her productions have toured festivals and venues across Canada, Europe and Mexico.  She co-created an online exhibition of Expedition, an iterative collaboration between Boca del Lupo and the Performance Corporation, and working on Net Zero, an interactive theatre installation about climate change that involves the audience charging a battery with a stationary bicycle. She is also a freelance director who has worked at the Richmond Gateway Theatre, Bard on the Beach, the Vancouver International Children’s Festival and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa Canada. Sherry J Yoon was a 2022 Finalist for the Siminovitch Prize.

Jovanni is a director, playwright, and actor. Originally from Toronto, he moved to the Lower Mainland in 2012 and was the Artistic Director of Gateway Theatre for seven seasons.

His plays include A Taste of Empire, Nine Dragons (Jessie Award), and The Five Vengeances (which he will direct with Affair of Honor). Jovanni is currently writing a new play for Vertigo Theatre and co-writing Salesman in China with Leanna Brodie (Stratford Festival/Banff/PTC).

This fall, Jovanni will start a new adventure as an MFA candidate at the University of Calgary.

Pedro is a Latinx-Canadian theatre artist born and raised in Chetwynd, British Columbia. He received his BFA in Theatre Performance from SFU. He then went on to form rice & beans theatre with Derek Chan. Pedro was the Artistic Resident at Neworld Theatre in 2014, the guestcurator of the 2018 rEvolver Festival and was one of the playwrights in the 2019 Banff’s Playwrights Lab where he worked on his latest play Made in Canada: an agricultural operetta premiering May 8th 2020 at performance works. Pedro is a director, playwright, performer and theatre jack-of-all-trades. Selected Credits: Anywhere But Here (Electric Company), Selfie, Bull (Rumble Theatre), Chicken Girl, Mis Papás (rice & beans), and Are We There Yet? (Neworld Theatre).