adrienne wong

panelist: the possibilities of performance in physical distance

Adrienne Wong is the Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow and an artist whose work straddles theatrical and digital space. Together with co-founders Sarah Garton Stanley and Michael Wheeler, she co-curates the Festival of Live Digital Art. Adrienne's web projects include The Apology Generator, which earned her the inaugural Artist in Residence position on CBC Radio’s Q, and SadSongs.ca, commissioned by Nightswimming Theatre in Toronto. Landline (created with Dustin Harvey) is a performance for audio recording and SMS that has toured nationally and internationally for five years. Me On The Map (created with JD Derbyshire) is a kids’ show about urban planning and collective decision-making, received a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nomination in Vancouver, and was selected for the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 2017 Playwrights Colony. Her writing has been published in Canadian Theatre Review, CdnTimes, and the anthology Asian Canadian Theatre. Adrienne was Artistic Producer at Neworld Theatre in Vancouver until 2013. Adrienne holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.