Past Students
Position
Melvin Backstrom
Melvin Backstrom completed his PhD at McGill University through IICSI.
Janey Dodd
Janey Dodd was a graduate student hired to work for IICSI UBC in 2017-2018.
Bronwyn Malloy
Bronwyn Malloy was a graduate student hired to work for IICSI UBC in 2017-2018.
Jayden Pfeifer
IICSI funded student Jayden Pfeifer continues his award winning community-engaged work, teaching and research into theatre improvisation and social engagement. He completed his yearlong artist in residence project on improvisation…
Garry Wasyliw
IICSI funded student, Garry Wasyliw, successfully defended in 2017 (MFAs). Wasyliw’s thesis: Relativity: Synchresis in Art and Applied Science
Jason Cullimore
Jason Cullimore (IICSI-funded Ph.D. student) is in the final stages of his program. His practice-based research is currently focused on the creation and development of an iPhone app, entitled “Shards…
Paula Weber
Paula Weber (IICSI-funded MFA student) presented an improvisation-based performance, founded on her final project, at the U of Regina “Man Up Against Violence” week, March 2018. Paula’s work deals with…
Clinton Ackerman
Clinton Ackerman (IICSI-funded MFA student) completed a professional placement with Common Weal Community Arts, and with Common Weal has worked with a variety of groups of young people (school classes,…
Jake Faraday
Jake Faraday is an experienced electronics improviser. He is active as a member of Noice and has recorded with Jing Xia. Jake’s doctoral research concerns the affective labour of sound…
Jing Xia
Jing Xia is developing an improvisational practice as a guzheng player as part of her PhD dissertation work on Chinese instrumentalists in diaspora, and has performed many times in St.…
