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JD is a writer, comedian, mad activist, performer, playwright, theatre maker, inclusive educator and innovator. JD’s work involves things that look like books, plays, solo shows, community and artist collaboration, twine games, audio, digital interactions, event creation, participatory theatre experiences, co-design and stand-up comedy. Upcoming; Mercy Gene, the man mad making of a mad women, audio book July 2023. Will you be my safe space, with Dave Deveau, Zee Zee Theatre, Vancouver 2024. Karajokee, Incoming Festival, Intrepid Theatre, Victoria 2024 Select Plays;Certified,Touchstone Theatre (Vancouver), High Performance Rodeo (Calgary), the Progress Festival/Whynot Theatre (Toronto), FoldA Festival (Kingston)Then comes Now with Adrienne Wong, Dog of my Understanding, Neworld Theatre and The Frank Theatre (Vancouver) Audition of an Embarrassed Woman, Solo Collective Theatre(Vancouver)Turkey in the Woods, Buddies in Bad Times (Toronto), Ingenious Speculations with Rita Bozi and Kim Selody, The Belfry (Victoria), The Opposite of Everything is True, The Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa), Under the Big Top,Quest Theatre (Calgary), Stood/PUSH Festival (Vancouver), A Modern Woman’s Guide to Female Impersonation/Women in View, (Vancouver) Gloom/ Summerworks (Toronto) All in/Queer Arts Festival (Vancouver) Joke you/People’s Comedy Festival (Toronto)and Funny in the Head/ Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival. JD has participated in the Banff Centre Playwright’s Lab and the Playwright’s Unit at Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary with co-creator Adrienne Wong. JD is the founder of POD, a citizen design lab in Vancouver. Recent co-design projects include; Upcity, exploring vertical culture with kids, Mote Theatre, Me on the Map, Vancouver International Theatre Festival/ New World Theatre, Banff Centre for the Arts, The Republic of Inclusion, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, MOVE, Momo Performance + disability, Calgary and Inclusive Designer in Residence at Calgary Arts Development. JD is a recipient of a 2021 Fleck Fellowship at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Their auto-fiction work Mercy Gene: the man made making of a mad woman, was published by GooseLane in March 2023. In some bizarre twist of fate JD returned to school and completed a Masters in Inclusive Design at OCADU in 2014. Weird, still weird.