BIOGRAPHY
Jay Northcott is a multidisciplinary artist; director, playwright, burlesque dancer, and producer. Jay works to decolonize their art and practice with storytelling, movement, and gesture to create a foundation for their work. They push their own boundaries by rejection notions of a ‘final’ or ‘polished’ project and focus on a live-ness by continuing to discover their own bias as a theatre maker. They continue to grow and make it their mission to continue to unlift projects that put BIPOC Queer artists in the spotlight. They continue to Create a community that is run by and for racialized and queer artist. Their goals: to make you cry and piss yourself at the same time, and to bleed, break, grind, make money, fuck, fight and blow some shit up with their Post-Britney2007 (after she shaved her hair off) aesthitic.
Directing credits include: Blacktop Sky (Obsidian Thearte), Passover (Obsidian Theatre, AD) Sweat (Arts Club & Citadel Theatre, AD), Scarlet Letter (Theatre Calgary, AD), Iphigenia and theFuries (Saga Collectif, AD), Cows (Theatre Junction)
