Tracey Guptill

Tracey Guptill is a movement-based actor and multi-disciplinary collaborative creator. She relished her classical acting roles playing Viola (in The Company of Fools’ Twelfth Night), and Nina (The Seagull) and Cecily (The Importance of Being Earnest) with Third Wall Theatre Company. She was a member of the bilingual, martial-arts-based ensemble created by Daniel Mroz - Les Ateliers du Corps - that presented a devised piece at the Canadian Dance Festival. Other co-creations include working with Single Thread Theatre Company to create dance sequences for Ambrose, a site specific piece at the Kingston Grand Theatre and the punk rock performance piece Anybody Can Be Pussy Riot, Best in Fest at the Storefront Fringe. She dramaturged Beneath Our Feet for the 2017 Kick and Push Festival and in 2019, Tracey co-directed circus artist Erin Ball in World at Our Feet, winner of Best Direction at Halifax Fringe. She founded anARC Theatre and the coLABoratory method with When I Get There, part of her Performance as Research thesis at Queen's, where she is now an Adjunct Lecturer. She recently studied at Philippe Gaulier’s International School of Theatre and can often be found walking on stilts.