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June Fukumura is a inter-disciplinary Japanese-Canadian theatre artist with a BFA in Theatre Performance and a Certificate in Sustainable Community Development from Simon Fraser University. June was Co-Founder of New(to)Town Collective, from 2015 - 2023. In 2019 New(to)Town Collective produced, My Name is SUMIKO, an award winning clown show written, performed, and directed by June. This show won the Public Market Pick of the Fringe Award.
She is also the Co-Artistic Director of Popcorn Galaxies an experimental theatre company interested in re-enchanting the everyday through unconventional site-responsive works. Popcorn Galaxies has produced over eleven independent productions in eight years and has been presented at Centre A Gallery, Vancouver Fringe Festival, BC Culture Days, the rEvolver Festival, the Array, and PushOFF 2021. Additionally, she was the Assistant Dramaturg at the Playwrights Lab at the Banff Centre for the Arts from 2019-2021 and Resident Dramaturg of Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre from 2021 - 2023. She is a dyslexic artist and works as a speaker, advocate, and educator. Her passion is to create diverse, inclusive, and safe spaces for all neurodiverse/divergent creators. Her practice includes: Grotowski inspired physical theatre, clowning, puppeteering, directing, dramaturgy, devising, and improvisation. Her practice is a blend of experimental contemporary theatre, site-responsive and site-specific art making, embodied performance techniques, and community engaged theatre and education.
She is also the Co-Artistic Director of Popcorn Galaxies an experimental theatre company interested in re-enchanting the everyday through unconventional site-responsive works. Popcorn Galaxies has produced over eleven independent productions in eight years and has been presented at Centre A Gallery, Vancouver Fringe Festival, BC Culture Days, the rEvolver Festival, the Array, and PushOFF 2021. Additionally, she was the Assistant Dramaturg at the Playwrights Lab at the Banff Centre for the Arts from 2019-2021 and Resident Dramaturg of Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre from 2021 - 2023. She is a dyslexic artist and works as a speaker, advocate, and educator. Her passion is to create diverse, inclusive, and safe spaces for all neurodiverse/divergent creators. Her practice includes: Grotowski inspired physical theatre, clowning, puppeteering, directing, dramaturgy, devising, and improvisation. Her practice is a blend of experimental contemporary theatre, site-responsive and site-specific art making, embodied performance techniques, and community engaged theatre and education.
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