Olivia Wheeler is a mixed-race, Chinese Canadian sound designer, composer, and multi-disciplinary artist. Recent theatre design credits include Sound design for Fefu and her Friends and Exercise Your Demons (Stratford Festival Director’s Workshop Presentation), It’ll Come to Me (Theatre SKAM), Associate Sound Design for Bad Parent (Soulpepper) and The Three Women of Swatow (Tarragon Theatre), Assistant Sound Design for Every Little Nookie, Hamlet-911, 1939 (Stratford Festival), and production design for The Fates, End of Term and Backliners (Theatre SKAM). Upcoming projects include sound design for Armadillos
(Factory Theatre) and touring her shadow puppet show Quest for the Moon (Theatre SKAM).
Bubble tea! Kimchi! Hot pot! While serving a hot pot dinner to her audience, Amanda reminisces about when it wasn’t so kool to be Asian, and delves in