Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac

Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Mi’kma’ki. Prioritizing impulse, discovery, and audience consideration, Colleen’s work is a curious investigation through a queer nonbinary lens. With a bachelor of media art in animation (Emily Carr University) and a masters of fine art in studio arts (NSCAD), Colleen works across performance, installation, media arts, theatre, comics, illustration, video, animation, and graphic design. The artistic producer of The Villains Theatre, they have created many plays and performance works, including an outdoor singalong astronomy class and exploration of grief (A Beginner’s Guide to the Night Sky), a proto-sci-fi novel from the 1600s transformed into a contemporary tale about climate anxiety (The Blazing World), and a postal service that guides audience members to send postcards to strangers (TO: THE UNKNOWN). Colleen's work has been nominated for multiple awards, and they are the winner of the Halifax Mayor's Award for Emerging Theatre Artist and the Bhayana Invisible Champion Award. They have been in residence at Ironbound Creative Residency, the MOTHRA residency on Toronto Island and Caravan Farm Theatre’s National Playwright’s Residency in British Columbia.