Matt Dusk is a Canadian jazz vocalist. His debut album, Two Shots, was released in 2004 and was certified gold in Canada. He has since released three additional gold albums and two certified platinum albums.
Matt Dusk Jazz Vocalist
BFA 2002
Dan Kanter is a multi-instrumentalist, musical director, performance coach, and multi-platinum-selling songwriter/producer. He is best known as the musical director and former lead guitarist for Justin Bieber.
Dan Kanter Songwriter and Producer
BFA 2007
Jenny Lewis and business partner Sara Kay have been in business together for fifteen years with their casting company “Lewis Kay Casting”. She has casted for many hit Canadian TV shows and has won Geminis and Canadian Screen Awards for Heyday (2006) Bitten (2016), and Letterkenny (2017).
Jenny Lewis Casting Director
Film BFA 1994
Lauren Holden has completed artist residencies in Newfoundland, Canada and Spokane, Washington in addition to presenting her research on visual poetry at the Unscripted Digital Arts Festival. She was named a “Student to Watch” by Graphic Design USA, and her work has received accolades for its social impact, typography and website design. Lauren’s writing on design was also published in The Devil’s Artisan: Journal of the Printing Arts.
Lauren Holden MFA 2D Design candidate at Cranbrook Academy of Art
BDes 2017
Shanny Rann is the Editor of Dance Central and a PhD student in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. Her current research focuses on the role of gender within Tai Chi practice in Vancouver. Her previous research on ‘cham, a Tibetan Buddhist dance ritual, was conducted in the Himalayas with refugee monks and has been published in Recherches en Danse as well as Ausdance.
Shanny Rann PhD Candidate. Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.
Dance Studies MA 2013
Carmelina Martin’s teaching career spans over two decades in the Peel District School Board in Ontario. She is a founding member for the National Roundtable for Teacher Education in the Arts, founder and director of Pulse Ontario Youth Dance Conference and a recipient of the Ontario Premier Teacher of the Year Award in 2011.
Carmelina Martin Teacher
BFA 1990
Elizabeth Bradley has had a long expansive career across North America. She was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Gold Medal for her contributions to the arts in Canada. She headed the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University before she was recruited in 2008 to serve as the Chair of the Department of Drama at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Elizabeth Bradley Former Head of Theatre at Carnegie Mellon and now Head of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
Theatre BFA 1976
