Blythe Haynes is an Actor/Theatre Maker who is passionate about inter & multidisciplinary collaboration, the sustainability of the thriving artist and creating a world focused on community and people. She holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Alberta, and calls Toronto home, where she creates with her collective Gangway Theatre Co. They are currently at work on their design first creation play Digital Divergence. Some highlights: Blythe has co produced and performed in the online interactive production of An Acorn (impel Theatre, Oldham Coliseum Theatre in Manchester) both the North American and UK run, the short film & Other Concerns (CLYMB Productions. Based on the 2019 Best of Toronto Fringe play An Atlas, A Necktie & Other Concerns by Lauren Greenwood.), and has had the privilege of performing one of her favourite plays, The Drowning Girls (Guild Festival Theatre), which she saw when she was a baby actor at the U of A. This shaped what she thought was possible in the creation of theatre and telling stories outside of, and that challenged, the traditional theatre construct. Those seeds are part of how she became interested in the collective creation of new work and process over product. Blythe is passionate about using the convention of theatre as an act of bearing witness and mobilising attendance as acts of resistance. She is thrilled to be able to see so much theatre this year and soak in this beautiful community.