Our Team
2025/2026
Erica Petty
ARTISTIC PRODUCER
erica@storytheatre.ca
(she/her)
Erica Petty is a theatre artist, educator, and arts administrator living in Lək̓ wəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territory. She has 20 years experience working professionally in Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA), principally as a Teaching Artist with a specialty in devising new works. Erica is a white, disabled, queer woman and a fierce advocate for the next generation, who has carefully built a collaborative practice for writing plays with youth to honour and uplift their voices and affirm their perspectives. Currently, Erica engages her collaborative skills to commission and produce new Canadian plays by professional artists in her role as the Artistic Producer at Story Theatre. She has held artistic and administrative roles with Intrepid Theatre, Theatre SKAM, Victoria Shakespeare Society, Kaleidoscope Theatre, and ArtsREACH. As an artist, Erica is most interested in making immersive sensory theatre experiences for babies including her 2020 co-created work “Twims”. Most recently, she was awarded a residency with Impulse Theatre to begin development of her new show for babies called “Sound Garden”. She is a mother to two young children, Harrison and George.
Monica Ogden
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
monica@storytheatre.ca
(they/she/siya)
Monica is a queer, disabled, non-binary Filipinx/Polynesian/English artist and educator of 14+ years, living on lək̓wəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ lands with her dog son Juno. Monica works as the Associate Producer of Story Theatre with joy and pride! They also produce with Rage Sweater Theatre Productions, their disabled QT2BIPOC led theatre company with Adonis Critter King. Monica holds a BA with Distinction in Gender Studies from UVic, and was chosen for the prestigious Netflix Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative at the Banff World Media Festival in June 2024. Her show Monica vs. The Internet, directed and co-created by Adonis Critter King, was recognized with the 2020 Witness Legacy Award from the Pro Art Alliance/Witness Legacy Blanket. Her artistic work has been supported and produced by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT), Why Not Theatre, Living Hyphen, National Theatre School of Canada, and Emerald City Comic Con. Monica is deeply committed to systemic change within the arts, and has advocated and consulted nationally and internationally for disabled QT2BIPOC artists. Monica has completed the ThisGen Producing Fellowship with Why Not Theatre and the Digital Connections Cohort with Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance (GVPTA). Monica is passionate about building a better world for the next generation, and builds education guides to accompany all productions to support BC teachers and students.
She believes none of us are free until all of us are free, from Pilippines to Falastin.
Story Theatre supports upwards of 30 professional contract artists each year! From designer to actors, playwrights to tour managers, each artist is integral to bringing theatre for young audiences all across BC. Click the pink button to learn more about our latest team of artists!
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