Zachary Greer is a composer for film, television, and advertising. He scored his first feature film, Alice in the Attic (2015), at age 21. He has composed music for various projects, including docs, shorts, ad campaigns, and theatre productions. In 2018, Zachary received the SWFF award for the short film, The Nashwaak. Recently, he has written music for multiple projects, including, Cicerone (dir Ty Giffin), TheLast Lucivee (dir Janice Wright Cheney & Matt Brown), and Fighter (dir Meagan Brown). Aside from his media work, Zachary also remains active as a solo artist producing instrumental albums. His major releases, The Duel and Partridge Island are based on historical events in New Brunswick, both of which received grants from artsNB, MusicNB, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Erin Goodine is a painter, interdisciplinary artist, and designer based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Their art practice includes painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Erin collaborates as a curator and writer with the 3E Collective, who, as a group, have created exhibitions and publications for the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Owens Art Gallery, and more. Erin’s artwork has also been featured at Flourish Festival, Gallery on Queen, Connexion ARC, and RE:FLUX Experimental Music and Sound Art Festival with the experimental improv trio Terre Wa. They are interested in time, form, movement, humour, and the uncanny through drawing, painting, and video compositions.

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Abby Keenan (she/her) is a Fredericton-based singer-songwriter, dancer, and performing artist originally from Miramichi, NB. Self-taught on guitar, she first started to post cover songs on her YouTube Channel in the summer of 2021 and embarked on the beginning of her music career soon after. Abby was nominated for Song of the Year for her song TIRED through the NB Music Awards. Abby as also spotlighted at the 2023 ECMA's.

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Gordon Mihan is a Fredericton-based screenwriter and film director. He has produced and directed several festival-screened short films across Canada. His most recent short film Unofficial Selection won the Audience Choice Award at the 2019 Silver Wave Film Festival, and his previous short film, Coached, was broadcast on the CBC as part of the 5th season of the Reel East Coast, now available on CBC Gem. Gordon is a member of the NB Film Co-op.

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Ysabelle Vautour of Creating Access is the founder of the NB Disability Art Collective. Her art practice ranges from painting to poetry, curation to installation art, with a background in improv comedy. She is an alumna of the Festival Inspire Muralist Training Program, Sync Leadership, and Catapult Art Accelerator. Ysabelle collaborated with Theatre New Brunswick and the JRG Art Society for the Arts on Atlantic Canada’s first Disability Arts Symposium. She has been invited to Sappy Fest, STEPS Public Art, Flourish Festival, Grunt and The James Gallery in Vancouver, and the Nails on the Wall Gallery in New Jersey. She has also served as the artist residence at the Fredericton Arts Alliance, Fredericton Botanical Gardens, Connexion, and Hammock Residency. A recipient of the JL Visual Art Award, her work has been featured in Created Here Magazine, Global, CBC, and the television documentary 100% Passion Portrait d’Ysabelle Vautour.

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John Adam Ian is the second winner of the Fund's new Music Studio Mentee Program. His mentor is Kylie Fox.

John Adam Ian is a songwriter based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. After having toured Canada with the east coast metal band We, the Undersigned, John Adam Ian branched out and focuses on writing alt-rock and acoustic tunes.

John Adam Ian can be found at: www.johnadamian.com and his twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/johnadamian.

Jane Touchie is a retired physician in Fredericton. She is a watercolour painter, pastelist, and student in the Great Books Program at St. Thomas University.

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Heather has been a teacher for twenty-seven years and is a mom to 16-year-old twins. She is a lover of dogs, coffee, and good conversation.

Thomas was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, and has been to almost every Canadian province at one time or another, following his artistic pursuits. In 2004, Thomas moved to Fredericton to attend NBCCD and study Graphic Design. He also fell in love with weaving on a loom. His true love, though, was photography, and it is his focus now.

Louis Anthony Bryan (he/him) is a Fredericton-based theatre artist, stand-up comedian, performer, and educator from Trinidad and Tobago. An active and contributing member in the arts, Anthony has been involved with many local theatre and film companies. Anthony hosts stand-up comedy at open mics throughout New Brunswick and local arts events.

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Kaitlyn Adair (she/her) is an actor, writer, director, and producer from Fredericton, New Brunswick. She started her career in film, working as an actor in film and television in Vancouver, B.C. She attended Vancouver Film School in 2011 and has been pursuing her passion for film since. Kaitlyn won the Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award for her first film March 2.4, allowing her to attend a post-production residency at The Banff Centre For Arts and Creativity. In addition, she received the Short Film Venture Grant and the CBC-NB Joy Award for her second film, Together We Move. Kaitlyn is dedicated to feminist-based media and creating inclusive spaces for marginalized communities to partake in visual arts.

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Jason Anderson is a Fredericton-based singer-songwriter whose work is as anthemic as it is affecting. A dynamic recording artist and compelling live performer, the emotional immediacy of his albums is further electrified through cathartic, communal concerts. Personal and passionate, Anderson’s music crackles with life. 

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Sue Rose is a multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer living in Sackville, NB. She found her love of theatre when she became involved with Sackville's community theatre, Performers' Theatre Company, in 2009. As a founding member, she has participated in many productions as an actor, costumer, director and playwright. She has written over a dozen plays and seen six produced. Her most recent work, Aloria Mae, was produced by Live Bait Theatre and staged at the Moyter-Fancy Theatre in Sackville in May of 2022. Rose is President of Sackville's summer festival, Festival By The Marsh. She is also a board member of PARC, the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre. She was Playwright-in-Residence with Live Bait Theatre for 2022.

Anne Lebans is a Health Program Coordinator at New Brunswick Lung, co-founder of the mental wellness and empowerment program, “It’s Ok To Be Awesome”, and founder of Anne Ellen Sound. A trained opera singer passionate about holistic wellness, Anne’s studies of psychology, music, mindfulness, meditation, coaching, yoga, and alternative medicine, ultimately led her to discover the therapeutic link between wellness and sound. Anne now helps people connect to their authentic voice through coaching and voice lessons and offers workshops and programs to educate people on how to heal and empower themselves using their own voice. Her mental wellness and empowerment programming has been endorsed by the Canadian Mental Health Association and can be found in schools across New Brunswick.

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