Christine Quintana – Artistic Producer

Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother, Christine grew up as a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor, playwright, and co-Artistic Producer of Delinquent Theatre. In these various capacities, she has worked with Tarragon Theatre, the Arts Club Theatre Company, Bard on the Beach, The Cultch, Neworld Theatre, Electric Company Theatre, Rumble Theatre, Boca Del Lupo, Zee Zee Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Pi Theatre, Gateway Theatre, Nightswimming Theatre, Belfry Theatre, Stratford Festival, and Young People’s Theatre. Her writing has been translated and performed in Spanish, French, ASL, and German.

Creation/performing highlights include Espejos: Clean (translated and adapted by Paula Zelaya Cervantes), premiering with Neworld Theatre and South Coast Repertory; Never The Last (co-created with Molly MacKinnon), produced by Delinquent Theatre, recipient of 5 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations including Outstanding Production and Outstanding New Script and winner of Significant Artistic Achievement; Selfie (commissioned by Théâtre la Seizième in French, and Young People’s Theatre in English, Governor General’s Award nominee, winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding TYA Play, the Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Script by an Emerging Playwright, and the Tom Hendry award for TYA); Good Things To Do (rEvolver Festival and FoldA). As an actor, Christine has recently played in Made In Canada (rice & beans theatre), Anywhere But Here (Electric Company Theatre), The Coyotes (Caravan Farm Theatre), Marine Life (Ruby Slippers Theatre), Yoga Play (Gateway Theatre), East Van Panto: The Wizard of Oz (Theatre Replacement and The Cultch). She was honored with the 2017 Siminovitch Protege Prize for Playwriting from Marcus Youssef, and holds a BFA in Acting from the University of British Columbia. christinequintana.ca

Laura McLean – Artistic Producer

Laura is the co-founder and co-Artistic Producer of Delinquent Theatre. Previous directing credits with Delinquent Theatre include Never the Last, STATIONARY: a recession era musical, Oh My God, Spring Awakening, and Our Time a show for which she won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Artistic Creation – Direction. Other directing credits include: Dry Land (Rumble Theatre), NeOn (Ode Productions), Shaw Shorts (City Stage New West), Crimes of the Heart (Bright Young Theatre), Little One (Brewery Theatre, Bristol), The Shape of Things (The Guild Theatre, Yukon), and Sacred and Profane (Assaulted Fish Sketch Comedy). She also works as a Dramaturg and has been the Assistant Director for such companies as the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, The Bristol Old Vic, and the Arts Club Theatre. She has her BFA in Theatre from UBC and her Masters in Directing from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She is the recipient of the 2015 Elsa Roberts Directing Prize.