What is CRIPSiE?
CRIPSiE (The Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in
Edmonton) is an Edmonton-based collective of artists that include people who experience disability and their allies. We challenge dominant stories of disability and other forms of oppression through high-quality crip and mad performance art, video art, as well as public education and outreach programs.
Who Is CRIPSiE?
Leadership Team:
Alison Neuman
Rebecca Bissonnette
Kena Leon
Board of Directors:
Brooke Leifso
Carly Neis
Mac Brock
Miranda Allen
Renee Hart
Mallory Chipman
Alison Neuman
Co-Artistic Producer
Alison Neuman is a disabled artist with an education and performance foundation in dance, choreography, theatre, music, and playwriting rooted in the arts community from Edmonton to California. She has studied with CRIPSiE Edmonton, Good Women Dance Collective (GWDC), Orchesis Dance, Mile Zero Dance, AXIS Dance, Nextfest, The Citadel Theatre Foote Theatre School, The MacEwan Conservatory of Music, The Alberta Playwrights’ Network RBC Emerging Artists Mentorship Program, Kompany Family Theatre, and The Citadel Theatre RBC Horizon Emerging Artists Program.
Her choreography has appeared at Nextfest, The Expanse Festival, Dirt Buffet Cabaret, Emergence, and CRIPSiE Shows. Alison’s plays have been produced at The Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival and Walterdale Theatre From Cradle to Stage. She has a Master’s Degree with an Educational Studies focus, a Bachelor of Applied Communications Degree, a Diploma in Professional Writing, and a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing.
She hopes artists will see someone like them on or working behind the stage and know there is a place for them in the arts. Alison looks forward to creating programming and opportunities to engage our community and build relationships with new individuals and organizations.
For more information, visit www.alisonneuman.ca.
Rebecca Bissonnette
Operations Manager
Rebecca Bissonnette is a Queer, Indigenous, Female artist that loves getting involved in adventures that allow her to tell a story. A sought after collaborator, she has created as an actor, dancer, singer, improviser, comedian, playwright, choreographer, songwriter, director, stage manager, producer, radio show host as well as an arts educator and administrator.
Rebecca has an Education degree with a minor in Educational Psychology, a Management Studies Diploma and close to 3 decades in the dance studio. She has been a part of creating with Mile Zero Dance, Leduc Drama Society, Foote In The Door Theatre, Walterdale Theatre, Workshop West Theatre, Die-Nasty Improv, Horizon Players, Nuova Vocal Arts, Sky’s The Limit Youth Theatre, Fierce and Curvy Empire - as well as run her own dance company Shift Happens Dance, her own production company DEPTH Perception Productions and her own radio station Turn It Up Radio.
Rebecca is thrilled to be working alongside Alison in order to really showcase that art is for every body, as well as help put the supports in place that allow that to be true.