Co-Founder, Co-Artistic Director
Kosar Dakhilalian is a writer and a theatre artist with a current focus on directing for theatre, collective creation, and education. Kosar has a BA in English Literature (University of Isfahan) and an MA in Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts (Brock University).
Kosar has worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Dramatic Arts at Brock University and as an assistant instructor/director at Young People's Theatre, Toronto. Kosar was a Nest Artist in Residence with Suitcase in Point Theatre Company where she developed and directed her play, Ruby which was a part of Niagara's 2023 In the Soil Festival. Kosar is a resident artist with Suitcase in Point again in 2025.
Kosar is passionate about research and supportive leadership; she was previously an editor-in-chief of Zeitgeist Courier, a magazine of literature and arts, for two years. Kosar's interests in research include theatricality, performativity, and art activism.

Co-founder, Co-Artistic Director
Skye Rogers (she/her) is a dance and theatre artist based in Attiwandaronia (Hamilton, Ontario), dearly devoted to making spaces for people to feel at home. Skye is the co-Artistic Director of retrograde: dance in motion and Tapestry Theatre Collective, and is an Artistic Associate with Aeris Körper Contemporary Dance. She is an alumni of the RBC Apprentice Program with Musical Stage Co. (Choreographer, 2023-24), Brock University (Arts & Culture, 2022) and Randolph College for the Performing Arts (Triple Threat, 2019).
Skye’s creative process is collaborative, embodied, and wholehearted. Her practice spans choreography, workshop facilitation, devised theatre creation, and performance. Alongside many self-produced projects, she has worked creatively with The City of St. Catharines, The City of Hamilton, Ontario Culture Days, Suitcase in Point, Frog in Hand, Stand Up Dance, Expect Theatre, shykids, Spindle Collective and Riot King, among others.

HOMEWARD

2024-2026

Photo by Shir-El Kline.