Hey, we’re the bad hats
We create new works with music, movement, and story, encouraging audiences of all ages to play. Let’s find the extraordinary within the ordinary. Let’s remember how alive we were as children and engage in that curiosity together (we could all use the practice). Come as you are. You can bring the kids or call the babysitter - we’ve got something for everyone.
FIONA SAUDER
she/they
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
fiona@badhatstheatre.com
matt pilipiak
he/they
MANAGING & ARTISTIC PRODUCER
matt@badhatstheatre.com
victor pokinko
he/him
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
victor@badhatstheatre.com
Landon Doak
they/them
ASSOCIATE ARTIST
Contact
KELSEY VERZOTTI
she/her
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE
kelsey@badhatstheatre.com
OUR MANDATE:
With an emphasis on programming for young people and families, we create new theatrical works and adaptations that empower multi-generational audiences to access the curiosity and intuition of their childhood.
We want to create work that audiences feel part of, art that they can recreate in their living rooms, stories that they can see themselves in at any age. We do this by employing minimalist designs and multidisciplinary artists, recreating the divine, specific chaos of childhood - when anything could be anything if you believed in it. We fill our productions with musicality, physicality, and highly stylized ensemble work, asking audiences to believe alongside us, to colour in the invisible parts of the miraculous worlds our stories inhabit, creating space for collective imagination among any given audience, at any given age.
Bringing adults and children together to co-experience our work creates community. We want young people who view our work to be inspired to keep imagining, and let these imaginative capabilities inspire our adult patrons to redesign the world their children are inheriting. We don't endeavour to educate young people, but rather to unlock their worldview and invite audiences to play within it, opening the door to noticing the extraordinary within the ordinary.
LAUREN VANDERVOORT
she/her
BOARD CHAIR
Lola Maggie Duncan
PRESIDENT
NICOLA ATKINSON
she/her
FOUNDING MEMBER
ariana sauder
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Portfolio
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
TANIA SENEWIRATNE
NICOLA HOCKIN
KELLY READ
LAUREN VANDERVOORT
MATT PILIPIAK (Ex Officio)
VICTOR POKINKO (Ex Officio)
FIONA SAUDER (Ex Officio)