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Andrew\xa0Kushnir\xa0is an actor, playwright, director, as well as artistic director of the socially-engaged theatre company Project: Humanity (PH) in Toronto. Since 2021, he has steered PH\u2019s Proximity Lab, an incubator for new approaches to verbatim theatre -- a form he has been working in for 15 years. He has collaborated on two books coming out in 2022:\xa0Moving the Centre: Two Plays: Small Axe and Freedom Singer\xa0(Talon Books, with Khari Wendell McClelland) and\xa0Hope in a Collapsing World\xa0(U of T Press, with\xa0Kathleen\xa0Gallagher).\xa0Andrew\xa0is the creator and host of\xa0_This Is Something Else \u2013\xa0_an investigative theatre history podcast for the Arts Club. He is a graduate of the University of Alberta, a Loran Scholar and alumnist of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival.\xa0Andrew\xa0is the inaugural\xa0recipient of the Shevchenko Foundation REACH residency prize.\xa0 A proudly queer Ukrainian-Canadian, he founded the We Support LGBTQ Ukraine Fund with the Veritas Foundation in April 2022.\xa0

Dr.\xa0Kathleen\xa0Gallagher:\xa0A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto,\xa0Dr.\xa0Kathleen\xa0Gallagher\xa0studies theatre as a powerful medium for expression by young people of their experiences and understandings. She has published numerous books and articles at the intersection of youth, theatre, and the social world. Her most recent works include the 2020 edited collection,\xa0_Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope: Enacting Community-Engaged Research through Performative Methodologies\xa0_and the 2022 monograph\xa0Hope in a Collapsing World: Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative\xa0 \xa0\xa0

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