Mishelle Cuttler
Artist in Residence | August 2021 - Present
Mishelle is a composer and sound designer living and working on unceded Coast Salish territory. Her work is centred around the integration of sound and music with storytelling and world building.
With a foundation in scoring and sound design for live theatre, Mishelle works across various platforms with a particular focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration.
She has worked with theatre companies such as Bard on the Beach, Neworld, Citadel Theatre, Arts Club Theatre, and rice & beans theatre. She has an MFA in Musical Theatre Composition from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a BFA in Acting from UBC.
Related: Delinquent Theatre
The Seventh Fire
The Seventh Fire is a play by Lisa C. Ravensbergen that is filmic in nature and mythic in proportion, sourcing traditional, oral Anishinaabe stories and societal roles as a way to explore ceremony in the everyday. Set in the present, past, and future, it tells the story of a woman’s return to the Ojibwe community she believes has rejected her. She discovers her destiny is tied to prophesy when she becomes pivotal to the community's survival. The Seventh Fire takes place in four time signatures, and above and below the earth, as sisters Daanis and Nimise, and grandmother Nokomis reach through time and space to be together where the horizon and land meet.
The Seventh Fire is created by award-winning playwright, director and actor Lisa C Ravensbergen. Project facilitated by Lisa C. Ravensbergen, Laura McLean, and Christine Quintana, with design by T. Erin Gruber and Mishelle Cuttler. Produced by Delinquent Theatre (unceded Coast Salish Territories, Vancouver BC)
