Rebecca Desmarais

Rebecca is an international tour producer and on-set teacher for film and television. She has produced and managed over 65 tours across 5 continents with award-winning shows, most notably 2b theatre company’s Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, which received 6 Drama Desk Nominations from its Off-Broadway run in NYC, the coveted Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as 8 Robert Merritt Awards by Theatre Nova Scotia. She has worked with companies such as 2b theatre company (Kji'puktuk/Halifax), Why Not Theatre (Tkaronto/Toronto),  Quote Unquote Theatre (Tkaronto), and Fascinator Management (Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations/Vancouver). As an on-set teacher, Rebecca has worked on productions such as HBO’s Welcome to Derry, Fubar, and Moonfall.  Rebecca has a specialized honours degree in Theatre, double minor in Philosophy and Sociology from York University; BEd from University of Toronto; Certificate in Arts and Cultural Management from Grant E. MacEwan University; and currently completing her MFA in Scriptwriting and Story Design at Toronto Metropolitan University. Rebecca lives in Tkaronto but hails from rural northeastern Ontario in the Robinson-Huron Treaty 61 on the lands of the Ojibwe and Algonquin Peoples.