Program Director and Acting Instructor
Janelle Cooper is a multi-award winning interdisciplinary Artist, and a founder of Ellipsis Tree Collective – Alberta’s first Black led and Black focused theatre company. Janelle’s expertise is in the excavation of lived experience through devising and multi-genre storytelling, IBPOC artistic mentorship, and EDID education and consultation via organizations like The Black Pledge and The University of Calgary’s SCPA EDIAD Community Advisory Board.