PARADIGM productions is a collaborative live performance company based in Toronto. We create, develop, and produce ambitious, large-scale work across multiple platforms. We make theatrical worlds to house the playful, mysterious, contentious, and provocative stories we want to experience in the world.
Learn more about producing philosophy, past projects, and future dreams here.
The Empire is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts New Chapter Program and has been developed, in part, through The Collaborations, an initiative of Canada's National Arts Centre English Theatre.
Susanna Fournier / Creator of The Empire
I'm a story-teller and the artistic producer of PARADIGM productions. I'm keenly interested in what story-telling can and can't do, why and why not – and says who. I'm a feminist with a dark sense of humour and I will happily argue imperial economics with anyone willing to go toe to toe. For more on me, or to learn about my other works visit susannafournier.com
Artistic Producing & Directorial Team
CLAIRE BURNS / Marketing & PR Manager
Production & Design Ensemble
These plays are entangled with one another. You can't design one without affecting the others. Thus our design work must be likewise entangle. We've created a cross-disciplinary production & design team who are working collectively across the three shows to build a cohesive - yet continually mutating - world for these stories to play in.
CRYSTAL LEE / Production Manager + Technical Director
WES BABCOCK / Associate Production Manager
WESLEY MCKENZIE / Projection Design, The Scavenger’s Daughter
BEN MCCARTHY / Sound Design: The Scavenger's Daughter soundcloud.com/pale-eyes
KAITLIN HICKEY / Lighting Design: The Philosopher's Wife , Production Design: Four Sisters
CHRISTOPHER ROSS EWART / Sound Design: The Philosopher's Wife, Four Sisters chrisross-ewart.com
STEPH RAPOSO / Video Design, Four Sisters
ALEXANDRA LORD / TRIGA: Costume Design: The Philosopher's Wife trigacreative/
SHANNON LEA DOYLE / TRIGA: Scenic Design: The Philosopher's Wife trigacreative/
Michelle Tracey/ TRIGA: Scenography: The Scavenger's Daughter trigacreative/