Anna Chatterton has been a professional playwright, theatre creator, librettist and performer for over 25 years. She is a two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama; Within the Glass (2017) and Gertrude and Alice (2018). Other plays include Quiver (Nightwood Theatre), Children of Fire (co-written with Shahrzad Arshadi, Nightwood Theatre/Aluna Theatre), Switched (Theatre Aquarius/Theatre PANIK/Industry) and The Horse and His Boy (The Shaw Festival). Anna has co-created and performed six plays with the Independent Aunties (with Evalyn Parry and Karin Randoja), produced by Buddies in Bad Times, The Theatre Centre and Theatre Passe Muraille. She has been a playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre, Tapestry Opera and Nightwood Theatre.

Evalyn Parry is an award-winning theatre creator and songwriter, director, writer, and performer whose work is inspired by intersections of social activism, history and auto/biography. Recent works include the acclaimed Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools, multi-Dora-nominated Gertrude and Alice (Independent Aunties), and her widely travelled show SPIN. From 2015 to 2020, she served as the artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

Karin Randoja is an award-winning director, actor, singer and composer. She has performed on stages across the country for almost thirty years and is one of the founding members of both the Primus Theatre and The Independent Aunties. Her work has been seen in countries around the world including Denmark, Italy, Japan and Mozambique. Her latest collaboration, Gertrude and Alice, transports partners Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas to modern times where they are forced to take an honest look at their legacies and the impact, or lack thereof, they have had — both personally and professionally — on the world.