Our Team

Craig Francis is a playwright, director, and visual artist. His plays have toured Canada and the US, including Off-Broadway. A founding member of The 20K Collective, Craig co-created Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, and HANS: My Life In Fairy Tales with Rick Miller; and FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book with Miller and Paul Van Dyck. He's a producer, dramaturg, and stage manager for Miller's BOOM trilogy and MONEY productions in Canada, the US, France, and Taiwan. Current projects include CYNIC, The Time Machine, and The Turn of the Screw. Craig is an educator, speaker, and emerging artist mentor, including co-authoring Redwood Woman with Andrea Friesen. He has performed improv and sketch comedy with Just For Laughs, CBC, CTV and Showtime. Craig lives in Montréal, has illustrated books, and voiced animated series. Videos he co-created with Kidoons and not-for-profit organizations are installed in museums in six provinces.

Rick Miller (he/him) is a Dora and Gemini award-winning writer / director / actor / musician / educator who has performed in five languages on five continents, and who Entertainment Weekly called “one of the 100 most creative people alive today”. He has created and toured solo shows such as the BOOM Trilogy (BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ), MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus and HARDSELL; and family shows with Craig Francis and Kidoons, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book, and HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales. With Robert Lepage, he has collaborated on Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, Dragon’s Trilogy, and on the film Possible Worlds. Current projects in development include MONEY, and The Time Machine. Rick hosts an intergenerational podcast called Xing The Gap, and sometimes teaches an interdisciplinary class at the University of Toronto called The Architecture of Creativity. He lives in Toronto with his partner Stephanie Baptist.

Jeff has a lifelong passion and vision for combining art and technology to develop original works. His projects are inspired by a love of storytelling and innovation. Through WYRD Productions, Kidoons theatrical productions, and digital works on the Kidoons Network, Jeff's artist collaborators help organizations to tell their stories onstage and online. He works with Not-for-Profits and corporate clients across Canada and the United States with a vision to inspire and empower all generations. Jeff dedicates this show to his mother, Evelyn Lord.

Irina is a multidisciplinary artist with expertise in graphic design, video production, and multimedia storytelling. She has been a longstanding collaborator with Rick Miller and Craig Francis, contributing to onscreen media projections for MacHomer, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Game of Clones. Recent work includes branding and projection/media design for BOOM X and BOOM YZ, for which she was nominated—alongside Rick Miller and Nicolas Dostie—for the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Projection or Video Design. Irina is the multimedia designer for Jungle Book, FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book, and HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales. Upcoming projects include MONEY and The Time Machine. As a web and video production artist, Irina also serves as the designer and editor of the Kidoons Network animated series.