Tijiki Morris was raised in Pakistan and came to Canada at eighteen. They co-created and led the puppetry collective Artichoke Heart, where they directed and devised pieces including We Walk Among You and Cirqular (Les Trois Jours de Casteliers, Montreal Fringe, Best of Fringe Toronto and Beyond the Mountain). Their play Rootless was presented at the SummerWorks Performance Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille’s Buzz Series. They were a selected artist for the inaugural Loughborough Lake Writer’s Retreat with Crow’s Theatre and Mongrel Media. Tijiki has been an artist-in-residence at Theatre Passe Muraille, Mermaid Theatre, Cahoots Playwrights’ Hot House, and was named as one of “30 Cahoots theatre makers who will shape the next 30 years of Canadian Theatre.”