Artist Advisor

Dasha Plett is a Winnipeg-based artist and transsexual working with performance, sound, and video. Highlights include performances for Cluster Festival, Nuit Blanche, Young Lungs Dance Exchange, Art Holm, WNDX Festival (where her performance Etudes for Keyboard received Best New Prairie Work), and send+receive (where she opened for internationally-renowned computer musician and performer Carl Stone). As a sound designer and composer she has worked with the Buddies in Bad Times, Stratford Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Cercle Molière, Theatre Projects Manitoba, Mammalian Diving Reflex, OneTrunk Theatre, Frances Koncan, Waawaate Fobister, Debbie Patterson, and Alexandra Elliott. Dasha is also one half of We Quit Theatre, a performance collective with Gislina Patterson that has toured nationally to Buddies in Bad Times, PushOFF, OFFTA, SummerWorks, LOMAA, Stratfest@home, and Théâtre Catapulte. She is a proud member of IATSE local ADC659. Visit Dasha online at www.princessdasha.com.