Ursula (she/her) is a local actor and law student. She is thrilled to be working on Archive again. Previous Zuppa credit: tiny. Some favourite previous theatre credits include Downed Hears (EFT/ Ships/ Matchstick), Essay (Matchstick), Schoolhouse (Two Planks), and the Rainbow Fish (Mermaid). Favourite film credits include To the Moon, Sugar Highs, Mickey, and Bone Cage. Ursula is eternally grateful for her beloved theatre community.

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Alex McLean (he/him) is a theatre artist based in Kjibuktuk/Halifax. He is a co-artistic director of Halifax’s Zuppa Theatre Co. and has co-written and directed the majority of that company’s shows. Recent works with Zuppa are The Movements, The Archive of Missing Things, tiny (with Vertical City), Pop-Up Love Party and This is Nowhere, a large-scale live/digital performance for out-of-the-way places.

With his ad hoc group Surplus Production Unit, he directed and wrote (from verbatim sources) A Timed Speed-Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes. With Ker Wells he was a founding member of Number Eleven Theatre (1998 -2006), and he holds an M.A. from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.

A specialist in devising, Alex has taught extensively, published scholarly articles, and collaborated with practitioners across multiple disciplines. His work explores the past, the present, and things that are too big to grasp or too small to contain.