OUR TEAM

Monica is a marketing specialist and project manager with 10+ years experience at organizations including Canada’s National Arts Centre and Tarragon Theatre. 

She’s also a playwright, actor, producer, and co-founder of award-winning theatre company Spicy Day. Monica creates works that unite audiences in laughter, and provoke conversation about society. Follow her work on Instagram: @spicy_day, @bethanne_horse.

Emily Jeffers produces the shows TIGHT FIVE and You’ve Been Warned: A Bouffon Cabaret and facilitates workshops to support the professional development of clowns in the community.

She is also an actor and clown, known for characters like Sheonardo DiCaprio and Bitty-Bat. She has performed at Edinburgh Fringe, Toronto Sketchfest, Toronto Fringe, Montreal Sketchfest and the Montreal Clown Festival.

Lauren is an experienced Events Manager and co-founder of Popscotch Events, a women-run local events company that has been featured on Global News, City News, 98.1 CHFI Radio, and in the Toronto Star.

Outside of events, Lauren’s theatre work with Spicy Day, which she has co-created, performed, and produced, has won ‘Best Of Fringe’ in the Toronto Fringe Festival, been awarded ‘Critic’s Pick’ by Mooney On Theatre, and been nominated for a Prix Rideau Award for ‘Outstanding New Work’.

Lucas is a newly Toronto-based actor, singer, and clown and is currently an MA candidate in theatre, dance, and performance studies at York University researching the intersections of clown and drag.

Lucas also performs as his drag queen persona, Pinkity-Twinkity (a queen by profession, clown by nature).

[Placement at WTF was facilitated by the Theatre Department at the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design.]

Alicia has been active in Toronto’s clown community since 2010 after obtaining a Master of Arts degree in Theatre and Performance studies from York University. She is the artistic director of Pajama Cat Productions and has been the force behind Red Nose Cabaret since its creation in 2017.

In addition, Alicia has over ten years experience working as an event administrator and community engagement coordinator. She is passionate about various forms of clown and comedy, as well as providing opportunities for artists to showcase their talent and reach new audiences. goes here

Byron is a director with over twenty years experience working in the arts, the agency, the academy and the arcade.

Theatrically, he is the resident director of Pucking Fuppets with Adam Francis Proulx and has worked with the Summerworks Festival’s Audience Choice Winner Pearle Harbour and the 2014 Canadian Comedy Award and 2012 Dora Mavor Moore Award- winning clown duo Morro and Jasp.

Byron also holds a PhD in Interactive Theatre and Pervasive Transmedia Fiction from the Theatre and Performance Studies Department at York University.