Monthly Member Feature
Kayleigh Sandomirsky | Stage Management
Kayleigh Sandomirsky is a stage/production manager, producer, curator and performer.
She is excited to continue her work with emerging artists, as she recently finished her time with UpintheAir Theatre as their Resident Curator from 2019 - 2022. Kayleigh has also recently worked with The Falling Company on Departure, and is working on their upcoming production Family Room; and is very happy to be working with such a great company on this new Mentorship Program.
Recent Touring credits: 003_playback by Caroline MacCaull (Chimerik), BLUSCRN by FakeKnot, New Societies by Re:Current Theatre, and Ying Yun by Wen Wei Dance.
Production Management credits: Dancing to Remember by Aeriosa Dance and Butterflies in Spirit.
Stage Management credits: Matriarchs Uprising and Maamawi by O.Dela Arts, Double Happiness: Detour this Way by Nancy Tam and Robyn Jacobs, The Array by UpintheAir Theatre, The Sun and The Moon by Crimson Coast Dance, In Response to Alabama by Little Thief Theatre, and Kwê by Jeanette Kotowich and collective.
Meagan Woods | Costume Design
Meagan Woods is an interdisciplinary artist who works in dance, theatre, and costume design. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University and a BFA in Dance from Rutgers University, where she earned the Margery Turner Award for choreography. Meagan has guest taught at both her alma maters, as well as The New School and Montclair University. Her research investigates movement theories across creative practices, including dance, film, and sewing. Meagan is currently a performer and collaborator with Re:Current Theatre and a librettist for the Breathing Bass ensemble. She also co-founded the modern dance festival Your Move, for which she was granted the Dance NJ Jete Award. Her recent TEDx Talk, Stitching a New Form of Progress, explored how sewing moves and makes in reverse and applied these backwards lessons for how we might move against normative, capitalist demands of being and gaining in one forward direction.
Celeste English | Lighting Design
Celeste English is a lighting designer born and raised in Vancouver, BC. Design credits include; Michif Medicines (Vni Dansi), The Virtual Full Light of Day (Electric Theatre Company), OW, Bloom (Mascall Dance), The Sea (Slamming Door Collective), Still Life Continuum (RedShift Music Society), Sex with Strangers, Body Awareness (Mitch & Murray Productions), Topophilia, Books (SFU SCA). Associate Design credits include; Made in Italy (The Arts Club, Theatre Aquarius). Assistant Design credits include; The Burnt City (Punchdrunk), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Arts Club), Kleptocracy (Arena Stage) and The Enemy (Firehall). . She holds a BFA from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and an MA from University of the Arts London.
Mishelle Cuttler | Sound Design
Mishelle is a Vancouver based composer and sound designer whose work is centred around the integration of sound, music, and storytelling. The foundation of Mishelle’s work is collaborative creation, and she has been fortunate to bring music to a multitude of projects with many incredible artists since entering the professional community in 2011.
Most recently, Mishelle was the Sound Designer for The Seventh Fire – an immersive audio performance at the 2023 PuSh Festival, created by Lisa C. Ravensbergen. Another recent large-scale work was Made in Canada with collaborator Pedro Chamale – a song cycle, album, and concert tour with music written using the verbatim words of Latinx migrant farm workers. Some recent design/composition credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard on the Beach), The Herd (Citadel/Tarragon), Clean/Espejos (Neworld), and Made in Italy (WCT/Arts Club). Mishelle has an MFA in Musical Theatre Composition from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a BFA in Acting from UBC.
What has been your experience working with The Falling Company?
Kayleigh Sandomirsky
When Marissa asked me to join The Falling Company on this new Mentorship Program idea I was all in! I just recently finished my time with UpintheAir Theatre as their Resident Curator, and through that work I realized how important uplifting and helping emerging artists grow and share their work is to the community. Also recently touring with Marissa for their show Departure; it just all felt like the pieces were coming together. I am very excited to see what this first iteration of the program holds, and am interested to see how it can grow and help more emerging artists in the future.
Meagan Woods
I'm thrilled to be working with The Falling Company because they are committed to the people behind the arts. Working with AD Marissa Wong has been a gift of an experience; I continually learn from the caring way she leads and brings out the fullest capacities-and joys- of the people she collaborates with. I love this company's commitment to envisioning the future of arts leadership, a future that is inclusive, courageous, humble, ever curious, and driven by what could be, not what has been. This is a group of people demonstrating the vibrant creativity that emerges through diverse, generous ways of being and thinking. I am lucky to keep company with The Falling Company and to see up close the groundbreaking work blooming from these fields.
Celeste English
I am so thrilled to be collaborating with the Falling Company on this initiative; creating more learning and growth opportunities in my opinion is paramount in our community. Moreover creating safe and nurturing spaces where people can grow, develop and flourish is even more important. I truly believe in Marissa’s, and by extension, the Falling Company’s vision with this program. The care and consideration is evident in every aspect of this program's design and it is a privilege to mentor in a space that is so thoroughly dedicated to nurturing positive learning spaces.
Mishelle Cuttler
I am excited to work with the Falling Company because of their commitment to mentorship and collaboration. The structure of this program allows mentees to have agency and ownership over their work, while still being supported and guided by experienced artists. I am also excited by the interdisciplinary connections between the Theatre and Dance communities. In Vancouver I often find that different artistic practices are siloed to themselves and it can be hard to reach across disciplines. This project brings together a fantastic group of people and I look forward to being a part of it.
