mia susan amir

May 2019

mia susan amir (she/her/hers) was born in Israel/Occupied Palestine. She is a queer, Crip+Mad Jew of mixed Ashkenazi and Sephardic ascent who lives and works as an uninvited settler on the unceded and occupied territories of the x?m?θkw?y??m (Musqueam), Skwxwu?7mesh (Squamish), and S?l?i?lw?ta?/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, otherwise known as, Vancouver BC.

mia works at the intersection of creative and community practice as an educator, cultural organizer, advocate, writer, director, dramaturg, and theatre artist creating immersive, transdisciplinary works. Much of her practice centres around explorations of the ways in which sociopolitical events are manifest in the space of the individual and collective body, resulting in narrative hauntings, which she calls Dybbuk Consciousness. mia is interested in how live performance offers a prefigurative space to respond to the conditions currently shaping our world, to challenge and expand perception, to unearth relationship, and to engage in democratic narrative production, starting from the site of physical sensation.

Select works include, Geologic Formations (rEvolver, FestivALT, Ergo Arts Theatre); Obscura Lucida: The Land of My Body, created with T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss (Vines Arts Festival); Across the Salty Waters (Feminist Art Conference); Transmissions: Bodies/Echoes/Ash (Grin City Collective, Allied Media Conference); The Map to Zochrot (Neworld Theatre, Sista’hood). Current collaborations include, the earth, that is sufficient (The Welders), and A Vista (Fight With a Stick). mia is the recipient of a 2018 LMDA Bly Creative Fellowship for her project, Unsettling Dramaturgy: Crip and Indigenous Process Design in the Studio, on the Stage, and in the Street. She is the Dramaturgy Research Associate at PTC, the Artist in Residence at Fight With a Stick, a member of LMDA, IFTR, PGC, and the Board Chair of All Bodies Dance.