Keshia Palm - CV
Artistic Leadership + Producing
Artistic Director, theatre potluck (2025 - present)
Artistic Producer, Paprika Theatre Festival (2021 - 2024)
Online Content Producer, Generator Performance (2018 - 2021)
Education
Master of Arts in Theatre with Minor in Curatorial Practice, Zurich University of the Arts (2025-2027)
Project Management Fundamentals Course, University of Waterloo (2020)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Theatre, University of Victoria (2015)
Residencies + Commissions
Resident Artist, Tarragon Theatre Urjo Kareda Artist Residency (2025)
Playwright, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre MSG Lab Resident - life, so far (2021/2022)
Playwright, Cahoots Theatre Hot House Unit Resident - The Amazing Chase Canada (2020/2021)
Creator, National Arts Centre x Nightwood Theatre Digital Transformations Project - what we found (2021)
Creator, Nightwood Theatre x National Theatre School #ArtApart Project - Make Me an Alleycat (2020)
Co-creator, Rhubarb Festival x Pencil Kit Productions - Shadow Girls (2018)
Awards
Gina Wilkinson Prize (2025)
Urjo Kareda Residency Award, Tarragon Theatre (2025)
Funding
Toronto Arts Council, Theatre Projects - The Amazing Chase Canada (2025)
Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators, fu-GEN asian canadian theatre co. - living arrangements (2024)
Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators, Cahoots Theatre - living arrangements (2024)
Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development for Artists - Explore and Create (2023)
Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators, Studio 180 Theatre - The Amazing Chase Canada (2022)
Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development for Artists - Explore and Create (2021)
Canada Council for the Arts, Theatre Projects - The Amazing Chase Canada (2021)
Ontario Arts Council, Theatre Projects - The Amazing Chase Canada (2021)
Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators, Tarragon Theatre - The Amazing Chase Canada (2021)
Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators, Outside the March - The Amazing Chase Canada (2021)
Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators, Toronto Fringe - life, so far (2021)
Toronto Arts Council, Playwrights Program - Shadow Girls (2017)
Performer Credits
Actor, Shakespeare Bash’d - The Spanish Tragedy (2024)
Actor, PNSNV - CPC Barbie (2023)
Actor, Gangway Theatre - Digital Divergence (2022)
Actor, Theatre Passe Muraille - The Year of the Cello (understudy) (2022)
Actor, fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre - FEARLESS (2019)
Actor, Modern Times Stage Company - The Cherry Orchard (2019)
Actor, The Deep End Collective - Remnants (2018)
Actor, Muse 9 Productions - From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (2018)
Actor, Modern Times Stage Company - Bloom (2017)
Actor, Cahoots Theatre - Hilot Means Healer (2017)
Actor, How We Are Collective - The Mess (2017)
Actor / Co-creator / co-director, Rhubarb Festival x Pencil Kit Productions - Shadow Girls (2017)
Actor, Sheatre - Far from the Heart (2016)
Actor, Canadian Youth Theatre - TOUGH! (2016)
Actor, Pencil Kit Productions - Persephone (2016)
Actor, Scrumpy Theatre - The Hidden City (2016)
Actor, Puente Theatre x Theatre SKAM x SNAFU Theatre - Lieutenant Nun (2015)
Directing Credits
Director, Gwaandak Theatre AWAKEN Festival - Savage is a Word in the English Dictionary (2025)
Director, York University - Radium Girls (2024)
Director, Why Not Theatre x Toronto Metropolitan University - Seph (2023)
Assistant Director, Theatre Passe Muraille - The Year of the Cello (2022)
Director, Nightwood Theatre - As a Former Fat Kid (2022)
Director, Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! (2020)
Director, Nightwood Theatre - Tangled (2019)
Assistant Director, Factory Theatre - Beautiful Man (2019)
Assistant Director, Next Stage Theatre Festival x Convergence Theatre - Athabasca (2019)
Assistant Director, Shakespeare in the Ruff - The Winter’s Tale (2019)
Co-Director, Rhubarb Festival x Pencil Kit Productions - Shadow Girls (2017)
Dramaturgy Credits
Dramaturg, TODOS Productions - NewfoundLanded (2024)
Dramaturg, Pencil Kit Productions + Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - WHITE MUSCLE DADDY (2024)
Mentorship + Pedagogy
Interim Program Director, Nightwood Theatre - Write from the Hip (2023/2024)
Workshop Facilitator (Artsworker Foundations: Arts Management + Leadership), Paprika Theatre Festival (2024)
Training Day Facilitator (Team Building + Relationship Building, What’s Next?), Paprika Theatre Festival (2021 - 2024)
Resident Dramaturge, Puente Theatre - conVERGE and WORKPLAY Playwriting Units (2021/2022)*
Artist Producer Training Program Guest Facilitator, Generator Performance (2019/2020)
Dramaturgical Intern, Cahoots Theatre - Hot House Playwriting Unit (2018/2019)
*residency was made possible by Canada Council for the Arts’ Professional Development for Artists component of the Explore and Create Program
Facilitation, Interviews, and Public Speaking
Panelist, Centennial College ‘Arts Ahead’ - Breaking Barriers (2023)
Moderator, Playwrights’ Guild Canada - The Future of Festivals (2022)
Panelist, SpiderWebShow Thought Residency - “How is the art that we make informed by where we are from?” (2022)
Interviewee, Stageworthy Podcast - Keshia Palm & Julia Dickson of The Paprika Theatre Festival (2021)
Additional Training + Workshops
Directors Lab North - Toronto, Canada (2025)
German A2, Goethe Institute (2025)
Watch&Talk, Zürcher Theater Spektakel - Zurich, Switzerland (2024)
European Theatre Academy, European Theatre Convention - Avignon, France (2023)
PRODUCE LESS, WORK BETTER!, IMPULSE THEATRE FESTIVAL - Müllheim an der Ruhr, Germany (2023)
Art of Being Present, Bad New Days (2023)
Bystander Intervention 2.0: Conflict De-escalation Training, Hollaback! (2021)
German A1, Goethe Institute (2021)
ASL 101 and ASL 102, Queer ASL (2021)
Mental Health First Aid Standard (8 Hour Course), Mental Health First Aid Canada (2021)
Bystander Intervention Workshop, the Dandelion Initiative (2020)
Training Enhancement Program in Directing, Factory Theatre (2019 - 2020)
HASA Initiative at the Stratford Festival with Peter Hinton, Carlos Bulosan Theatre (2019)
Toronto 5 Workshop, Stratford Festival (2018)
Intro to Google Analytics, Camp Tech (2018)
Professional Theatre Training Program Intern, Cahoots Theatre x Ontario Presents (2017 - 2018)
Masterclass in Dynamic Creation, Theatre Gargantua (2017)
Puppet Workshop, Bread & Puppet Theatre (2016)
Building Giant Puppets Workshop, Clay & Paper Theatre (2016)
Puppet Theatre Intensive with Peter Balkwill and Shannan Calcutt, Banff Arts Centre (2016)
Devised Theatre Intensive with Eric Rose, Ghost River Theatre (2015)