Director, dramaturg, and creator Sarah Garton Stanley (SGS) is Vice President of Programming at Arts Commons in Calgary. She is originally from Montreal, and was previously Artistic Producer of the National Creation Fund at Canada’s National Arts Centre, founding Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow, co-founder of FOLDA, Associate Artistic Director for English Theatre (NAC), and Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. She has been the recipient of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas’s Elliott Hayes Award, a Manitoba Theatre Award for best direction, and an Honorary Member Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. SGS holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University and in 2020 she and her partner became co-stewards of the legendary Birchdale in Nova Scotia. SGS is co-author of Manifesto for Now with Owais Lightwalla.