
Pieces of Paradise
Credits
Pieces of Paradise is an audio play about being connected with each other and the earth. It’s created by a team of compassionate, wise, kind and creative people during a difficult time in our world.


Patti Flather – Creator, Director, Co-Artistic Producer & Linda
Patti Flather is an award-winning writer, theatre artist and arts producer in Whitehorse. She is a co-founder and past Artistic Director for two decades of Gwaandak Theatre, dedicated to nurturing and sharing Indigenous and northern voices. Patti’s play Paradise toured nationally (MT Space/Gwaandak Theatre); it’s published with Playwrights Canada Press. Selected other plays include Sixty Below (with Leonard Linklater), the solo show West Edmonton Mall, and the collectively created work Map of the Land, Map of the Stars. Her acclaimed first fiction collection is Such A Lovely Afternoon. Patti is of settler ancestry, originally from the unceded territories of the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in North Vancouver, B.C. and grateful to live on Kwanlin Dün First Nation & Ta’an Kwäch’än Council territory since 1988. Patti is a proud member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada and Writers Union of Canada.

Wren Brian – Web Designer/Developer, Co-Artistic Producer & Chloe
Wren is a playwright who started her career in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada (territory of the Kwanlin Dün & Ta’an Kwäch’än) where she was born and raised. She then spent over 12 years based in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Treaty 1 territory, before moving to Scotland in July 2022. In her writing she is dedicated to creating characters that can be played by actors of any gender, ancestry, ability, and/or age. Her play Anomie won the 2017 Harry S. Rintoul Award for Best New Manitoba Play at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, and she was recently shortlisted for the John Hirsch Emerging Manitoba Writer Award. Production credits include: Bystander (produced by Gwaandak Theatre), Situation (commissioned and produced by Gwaandak Theatre), When (Climate Change Theatre Action 2021, presented in six different countries) and most recently Now (Climate Change Theatre Action 2023).

Jordy Walker – Sound Designer & Audio Producer
Jordy Walker is a musician, composer, sound designer, record producer, and sound artist based in Whitehorse, Yukon. With a passion for experimental music and sound design, the ability to play and compose on several instruments as well as proficiency and experience in the recording studio, he has maintained a career with much flexibility and variety. He has produced/engineered over 50 records and worked on an equal number of films, theatre and contemporary dance pieces.

Calla Paleczny – Composer
Calla Paleczny is a composer and musician whose work explores the intersection of wilderness, mysticism and the human experience. Her recent work makes use of objects, hand built instruments, field recordings, cello improvisation and patterns found in nature to create music and sound installations that are richly textured, voluminous and meditative. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Arts in experimental music composition at Wesleyan University in Connecticut; bringing sensibilities, field recordings and a spacious spirit from her home base in Whitehorse, Yukon to this new environment. Her practice includes collaboration as a composer with dancers, choreographers, filmmakers, writers and visual artists. In 2017 she released a singer-songwriter album called ‘Dreamer’s Sea’ under the alias Calla Kinglit.
The headshot is by Emeraude Dallaire.

Jasmine Chen – Dramaturg
Jasmine is a director, writer, and performer whose multilingual interdisciplinary work has been featured in CBC Arts, The LMDA Conference, NOW Magazine, The Georgia Straight, and more. Her work as an performer encompasses theatre, film, TV, and voiceover across Canada and internationally.
Jasmine is an alumnus of the National Theatre School and Ryerson Theatre School. She is a recipient of the Gina Wilkinson Award for Female Directors, the Jon Kaplan Canadian Stage Performer Award, and the Stratford Festival Jean Gascon Award. She is the creator/performer of Jade Circle and a member of the Five Blessings Collective. Website: msjasminechen.com.

Carman Lam Brar – Kal
Carman Lam Brar wears many hats, including Programs Librarian, anti-racism educator, mother of two, student of Cantonese, and actress when times allows. Past roles include Juliet in Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet and Ernestine in The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine. Her digital theatre debut was performing in The Investigator and she is excited to be part of Pieces of Paradise.

Jordan Kaltenbruner – Rachel
Jordan (she/her) is from just outside of Mohkinstsis, on Tsuut’ina Nation territory. She’s a performance artist, singer, theatre creator, intimacy director/choreographer and collaborator. Calling Whitehorse her home for the last 5 years, she studies somatics, serves her community at the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre and enjoys a pastry at any time of day. Working with Patti, Wren and the cast and crew for Pieces of Paradise was a joy and a profound journey. She hopes you enjoy this piece!

Ken Green – Wally
Ken is a settler grateful to be living in Whitehorse, Yukon, the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. He is the co-writer of the feature film Perfect Family (optioned by 3DEvolution). He was a puppeteer and puppet assist on season one of Northern Tails puppet show (Shot in the Dark Productions) and a voice actor in Digital Originals productions 2023 and 2024. He co-produced the short documentary film Whalefall and worked as crew on the short documentary film Inspiration in Nature. He also acted in the trailer The Last Avenue (Brendan Preston Productions) and in The Investigator which is another Yukon Digital Theatre project.
Ken is interested in sound and words and tries to live his life like an artist.

Roy Neilson – George
Roy is a writer and performer who is grateful to call the Yukon home. He lives in the woods with his gals Anna, Lupin and Sunday.

Antoinette GreenOliph – Pooks
Antoinette was born on the island of Tobago and as far back as she can remember she read recipe books for fun. Food was definitely her first love. But it’s not her only love: the theatre captured her imagination for how it can transport us to look into other people’s lives, witness their trials and tribulations, and rejoice in their triumphs. In recent years, Antoinette developed a storytelling series, Anto’s Real Stories, that she paired with a multi-course menu at her restaurant in Whitehorse, culminating in a “50 years – 50 bites” celebration of realness, strength and what she calls sticktoitness. This passion project led to a performance during the 2020 Pivot Theatre Festival, Stories from the Mango Stump. In 2021, she won a role as snowmobile-driving, body-disposing, bad-ass Morad in Polaris, an award-winning post-apocalyptic feature now streaming on Crave. In 2023, she was the lead in David Lindsay-Abaire ‘s play Ripcord, for a 3-week run at the Guild Hall.

Asad Chishti – Lucky
“A sincere and curious poet who is a local journalist residing in Whitehorse. Good at bringing the most arbitrary groups of people together and a node of networks, you know?” (as introduced to a stranger by a dear friend.)
A former Nakai Theatre board member, he first arrived to the Yukon by bicycle in 2017. Asad showed a lot of promise as an actor in middle school productions and high school presentations. This was a long time ago. Since then, life has served enough drama that it wasn’t until this play that he was back as an actoooor. Being part of the cast with the rest of the team felt like a real dream. He is grateful for the invitation and the experience.

Christine Genier – Snake
Born and raised on her ancestral lands, Christine Genier is a Wolf Clan citizen of the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. She is a writer, poet, performer, a collector of stories, and a language and culture worker.
Christine parlayed her theatre training into a career in broadcasting, where she stayed firmly planted for almost two decades.
Her story collection work has been published with Inuit Arts Quarterly as well as local community publications.
She wrote a poem which received 5 upvotes and two comments once on a writing prompt subreddit. She was pretty excited about that.
She shares a lived experience that spans over four decades of bridging culture and recovering the Indigenous Space with those prepared to engage.

Katherine McCallum – Yellow-rumped Warbler
Katherine McCallum is a professional actor and producer working in theatre, film and television in Whitehorse, Yukon. A graduate of Macquarie University’s Bachelor of Media Arts (AUS) and The Atlantic Theater Company’s professional acting program in New York City, Katherine has been producing theatre for over 25 years. Her diverse career has seen her; tour with The Bell Shakespeare Company (AUS); coach actors on ABC’s police drama Wild Side (AUS); teach at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA – AUS); grace the stage in countless theatrical productions, occasionally appear on TV and in film; serve for four seasons as artistic director of The Guild, YT, and produce over 25 plays. Katherine is a founding member and the Artistic Executive Producer of Larrikin Entertainment Ensemble, sits on the boards of Yukon Theatre for Young People and Yukon Music Camp Society, and instructs THEA 200 – Introduction to Acting at Yukon University.
Photo credit: Manu Keggenhoff Photography. Dog: Silk the Wonderdog

Lillian Nakamura Maguire – Nana
Lillian Nakamura Maguire, a second-generation Japanese Canadian, is a writer and storyteller. She is retired and living in the countryside near Whitehorse, Yukon, the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. Throughout her career as an adult educator, facilitator and community activist she has used stories in her work in human rights education, elder abuse prevention and intercultural relations. She is a founding member of the Hidden Histories Society Yukon and has researched and documented Japanese Canadian history, written short stories, memoir, haiku, personal essays, a play, and produced digital stories based on her family history and culture. In her project, “Mapping My Journey to Home”, she is experimenting with a story collage. This is a collection of family stories written as poetry with prose, memoir, story “vignettes”, short film and audio storytelling integrated with archival photos, film and documents from her family history.

Jenna Roebuck – Illustrator
Jenna Roebuck is a graphic designer based in Dawson City, Yukon, who draws inspiration from history and nature. Jenna works in various fields including branding, typography, and digital illustration, from her creative studio and retail shop, Kith and Kin Design Co.
Play Development Reading
Thank you to Christine Genier, Carman Lam Brar, Fred Pierre, Hakim Therrien Boulos, Brandon Wicke and Miki Wolf who participated in a reading in support of this adaptation.
Project Visioning and Development
Thank you to Neil Christensen, Kathleen Flaherty, Beth Kates and Harrison Sparrow for important early contributions to the development of this and other Yukon Digital Theatre Collective works.