Hello!

June Fukumura is a multidisciplinary, nisei (second-generation) Japanese-Canadian theatre artist living on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, colonially known as Vancouver. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Popcorn Galaxies, an experimental theatre company dedicated to re-enchanting the everyday through unconventional, site-responsive and site-specific new works. Since 2013, Popcorn Galaxies has created over twelve productions and has been presented in Vancouver, Richmond, Edmonton, Whitehorse, and Dartmouth. Her personal artistic practice includes: acting for theatre/film/tv/voice over, clowning/bouffon, puppeteering, directing, dramaturgy, devising, and writing. She has worked with a number of theatre companies across Canada including The Stratford Festival, Theatre Calgary, Arts Club Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, The Chop Theatre, Little Onion Puppet Co., The Biting School, and Hong Kong Exile. As a dyslexic artist, she also works as a speaker, advocate, and educator. She is passionate about creating diverse, inclusive, and safer spaces for all neurodiverse and neurodivergent artists. June holds a BFA in Theatre Performance and a Certificate in Sustainable Community Development from Simon Fraser University.

Current projects.

Karen Hines in Vancouver






BIOGRAPHY:
Karen Hines is the award-winning author of eight plays, all published by Coach House Books, including Crawlspace, All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, Drama: Pilot Episode and The Pochsy Plays. She is a two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and for the Chalmers Award, a three-time Writers Guild of Alberta Award-winner, and was a 2020 finalist for the Siminovitch Prize in Playwriting. She is also a Dora Award-winning performer, and her prize-winning short films have been screened on five continents. Raised in Toronto by scientists, Hines is now based in Calgary where she has been Playwright in Residence at Alberta Theatre Projects and an associate writer and performer with One Yellow Rabbit. She has written, directed and performed in productions for stage, television, film and is the Dora-winning director of internationally beloved adult horror clowns Mump & Smoot. Her singular writing style, informed by an alchemy of clown and bouffon, has won her a reputation for biting, hilarious and provocative entertainments.  

"One of the gems of Canadian theatre" (Toronto Star)

Karen's website keepfrozen.org/ and ​https://www.pochsy.com/

In development.

Gloria Fukomachi 








Gloria Fukomachi - Grant Writing 101
Playwright/Performer: June Fukumura 
Dramaturg: Tetsuro Shigematsu
Mentor: Karen Hines

Get In Touch.

June Fukumura (she/her)
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