A Polite Fiction

Allison Plamondon (writer, actor, producer) is a Toronto-based choreographer, director, performer, playwright, and teacher originally from Edmonton, Canada. Recent theatre choreography includes White Christmas, Damn Yankees, and Holiday Inn all for the Shaw Festival as well as Grease for Western Canada Theatre. She also wrote, directed, and choreographed And I Never Stopped Dancing for Smile Theatre. New York highlights include: Goblin Market, off-Broadway at 59E59 and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Hills Are Alive! (NYMF), Someone To Belong To (NYC Fringe-Overall Excellence Award, Choreography), direction for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (14th St Y), and co-creation/direction/choreo for Memory Home (2019) and The Tchaikovsky Vignettes (2016), both in residence at HB Studio. Film/tv choreography credits include the Oscar-winning short film, Curfew (2013), Before I Disappear (IFC), Believe (NBC), and Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick (asst choreo). Allison has shared original work at the Lincoln Center Library, Mark Morris, Gibney, fFIDA Dance Festival, Chen Dance Center, The Brick Theater and the inaugural RHI-Think initiative in Portugal. Most recently, Allison was a choreographer in residence through the National Ballet of Canada’s Open Space program. She is a member of the first all-female creative team to receive Opera America’s Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer prize (2021-22), for Orfeo Ed Euridice and was the apprentice director on Orphee+ with the Edmonton Opera. As a performer, Allison has been onstage at some of North America’s most exciting venues including Madison Square Garden, La MaMa, Symphony Space, the Charlottetown Festival and the National Arts Centre.

An avid teacher, Allison is passionate about sharing movement with dancers of all ages and abilities. New York teaching highlights include AMDA, Queens Theater, Tom Todoroff Conservatory, Abrons Arts Center and Broadway Dance Center. She currently teaches tap at Sheridan College. Allison completed the Uta Hagen Teacher Training at HB Studio in 2016 and is a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Trainer.

Warren Sulatycky (director, producer, editor) is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist, writer, director, producer, and actor working in theatre, film and the visual arts. For almost forty-five years he has created work across Canada, the United States, and Europe. He has made four international award-winning feature films (screenings at Cannes and Berlin) with two Canadian Screen Award nominations: “April in Autumn” - 2018 (director, writer, producer, actor, editor); “”Jasmine Road” - 2021 - (director, writer, producer); “Wild Goat Surf” - 2023 - (executive producer/producer); “A Polite Fiction” - 2024 (director, producer, editor). He has directed over 250 hours of television in all genres and created/executive produced/directed the international hit series “Love by Design”. His stage work includes starring in the New York Times critically acclaimed off-Broadway American premiere of Claudia Dey’s “Trout Stanley” for which he garnered wide acclaim. His plays have been produced in Canada and the US and include “The End of Love”, “Babas”, “Terre”, “Road”, “Angel” and “My Sacred Heart”. “Terre” was developed with the assistance of Robert Lepage’s Theatre Ex Machina/La Caserne. Warren has been playwright-in-residence at Canada’s Factory Theatre and Blyth Festival. His visual artwork has been exhibited in New York and Toronto (frequently at Propeller Gallery).Warren trained at The National Theatre School of Canada, University of Alberta, and The Art Student League of New York, in acting, english literature, and visual arts respectively. Warren was the General Manager of Toronto’s Theatre Centre from 1990-92 and is the founder and artistic director of multi-disciplinary Renaissant Arts and Raging River Films.