Stephanie Wong
Mentor, Civic Engagement Artist Residency
Born in colonial Hong Kong, Stephanie (she/they) lives gratefully on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ peoples. Their art is an invocation to imagination, expressed through a constellation of disciplines, including direction, dramaturgy, producing, creation, performance, and design. As the Associate Artistic Director of re:Naissance Opera and Producer at Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, she leads with the values of radical softness and collective care, committing herself to championing equity-deserving identities. The intersectionality of their lived experience informs their creative ethos of expansiveness and abundance. Moving fluidly between mediums and disciplines, Stephanie believes that storytelling allows us to compassionately open ourselves up to the complexity of our world, holding true our nuanced interconnectedness, and asking ourselves what more is possible in creating our collective story.