Artistic Advisor

Gloria Mok (she/her) is a playwright, producer, production manager, designer, and theatre creator who has worked with a wide range of arts organizations across Toronto and nationally. She is a settler and daughter of first-generation Chinese-Canadian immigrants from Hong Kong. Alongside Chinese-Canadian theatre creators Aaron Jan and Bessie Cheng, Gloria co-founded Silk Bath Collective in 2016, a company focused on creating multidisciplinary plays about the Chinese diaspora. Gloria is the Producer at Nightswimming in Toronto, a dramaturgical company with a national mandate focused on commissioning new theatrical creations and developing performance research. Gloria is a long-time fan of SummerWorks, having worked the 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 editions of the Festival. She premiered her project Long Distance Relationships for Mythical Times at SummerWorks in 2022 and is honoured to be joining this year’s Artistic Advisory.