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Scene 2

Tara

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Scene 2 focuses on Tara and her decades-spanning relationship and work with her husband, David Suzuki. It discusses immigration, World War II, discrimination, marriage and married life, activism, and more.

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David Suzuki

David Suzuki is a scientist and Emeritus Professor of Genetics at the University of British Columbia. Through radio, television (The Nature of Things), and fifty-five books, he has communicated humanity’s collective impact on the natural world, an impact that now threatens the future of human life. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada, and has received UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for Science, the Right Livelihood Award for 2009, the Global 500, and thirty honorary degrees from Canada, the U.S., and Australia. Dr. Suzuki has been honoured with adoption and names from eight Indigenous First Nations in Canada and Australia.

Tara Cullis

An award-winning writer and former faculty member of Harvard University, Tara Cullis has been a key player in environmental movements in the Amazon, Southeast Asia, Japan, and British Columbia. In 1990 Dr. Tara Cullis co-founded, with Dr. David Suzuki, the David Suzuki Foundation to “collaborate with Canadians from all walks of life including government and business, to conserve our environment and find solutions that will create a sustainable Canada through science-based research, education, and policy work.” She was a founder of the Turning Point Initiative, now known as the Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative, which brought First Nations of British Columbia’s central and northern coasts into a historic alliance, protecting the ecology of the region known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Tara has been adopted and named by the Haida, Gitga’at, Heiltsuk, and Nam’gis First Nations.

Miriam Fernandes

Miriam is the co-artistic director of Why Not Theatre and has worked as an actor, director, and theatre-maker around the world. Recent directing and creation credits include Metamorphoses (CDTPS, University of Toronto), Hayavadana (Soulpepper Theatre), Nesen (MiniMidiMaxi Festival, Norway), and The First Time I Saw the Sea (YVA Company, Norway). She is currently co-writing/adapting for the stage the ancient epic Mahabharata (Why Not Theatre/Shaw Festival), is developing a Deaf/hearing production of Lady Macbeth (in partnership with 1S1 Collective), and working on a new adaptation of The Visit. Miriam is the recipient of the JBC Watkins Award and was nominated for the inaugural Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize. Miriam has trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, and is a graduate of École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

Ravi Jain

Toronto-based stage director Ravi Jain is a multi-award-winning artist known for making politically bold and accessible theatrical experiences in both small indie productions and large theatres. As the founding artistic director of Why Not Theatre, Ravi has established himself as an artistic leader for his inventive productions, international producing/collaborations, and innovative producing models, which are aimed to better support emerging artists to make money from their art. Ravi was twice shortlisted for the 2016 and 2019 Siminovitch Prize, and won the 2012 Pauline McGibbon Award for Emerging Director and the 2016 Canada Council John Hirsch Prize for direction. He is a graduate of the two-year program at École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He was selected to be on the roster of clowns for Cirque du Soleil.