Tracey Guptill

Tracey Guptill

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

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Tracey Guptill is a movement-based actor, collaborative creator, and teaching artist. With the establishment of anARC Theatre and its coLABoratory method for Research-Creation, she co-created When I Get There, for her Master of Environmental Studies degree at Queen’s, in 2014. The play engaged with community member to address questions of agency, activism, and environmental justice. With anARC Theatre, she has since co-created Our House, with Cellar Door Projects and Anybody Can Be Pussy Riot with RAFT; the current work-in-progress is an access-centered piece with the Circus Kingston Collective entitled Uncovering. The work seeks to showcase accessible theatre while collaborating with artists across identities to tell some of Kingston's untold stories. Other Kingston co-creations include the film LIVE in Kingston, and Ambrose, with Single Thread Theatre Company. Tracey is also a stilt-walker and co-founder of the Kingston Stilters. She lives on a working farm in the Thousand Islands. She has been published in Alt.Theatre. Her dissertation will examine the Settler Problem by means of Research-Creation.