Gein Gizhii Kwe Wong is an interdisciplinary director and artist of First Nations and Asian descent who is Two-Spirited and Queer. Her works focus on obvious things like gender, class and race, as well as things a little less obvious like gender, class and race. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Toronto Arts Council, as was an inaugural member of the TAC Cultural Leaders Lab. She is a recipient of the 2014 Ken McDougall Director’s Award and 2015 CCGSD Canadian Youth Role Model Lifetime Achievement Award. Gein is Artistic Director of Eventual Ashes, a co-owner of the world’s oldest LGBT bookstore, Glad Day Bookshop, a member of the Indigenous eco-restoration group, Naadmaagit Ki, and a member of the Indigenous Two-Spirit drum group, Balance Bringers. She was a 2012-13 Canadian Stage Director in Residence, a 2013 Harbourfront Centre Resident Artist, a two-time Philadelphia Asian Arts Initiative Resident Artist, the inaugural resident artist at fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre, collaborated on a New York HERE Arts Centre Residency and was a member of the Native Earth Performing Arts’ Animikiig Creation Unit. She conceived and directed “Say Their Names, Remember”, a 500 person performance piece which opened the Ai Weiwei exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario. she co-created “The Forgetful City”, a site specific interactive video installation that reopened the RC Harris Water Filtration Plant in Toronto – an art-deco castle closed to the public for a decade due to 9/11. In 2014, World Pride commissioned her to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots by creating a large scale immersive performance experience to remember Stonewall. in 2016, she co-created “Long (Dragon) House” an immersive experience performed inside the Song Dong exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario and was invited to Brown University to give the talk “Intersectionality is an Ocean”. This summer she co-created The Interstellar Spadina House Museum Guided Tour and Cobechenonk an immersive canoe trip through time up the Humber River.

Gein Wong is an interdisciplinary director, playwright, spoken word poet, composer and video artist. Her works focus on obvious things like gender, class and race….as well as things a little less obvious, like gender, class and race. She is a 2012-13 Canadian Stage RBC BASH Director in Residence, a 2013 Harbourfront Centre HATCH Resident Artist, a two-time Philadelphia Asian Arts Initiative Resident Artist and is collaborating on a New York HERE Arts Centre Residency. She was shortlisted for the Ontario KM Hunter Theatre Awards in Theatre (2010) and Literature (2013). Her art have been shown and performed across Canada, in the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, East Asia and the United States. She is published in the Playwrights Canada Press Anthology Refractions Solo and is a featured artist in Diaspora Dialogues’ 5th Anniversary Commemorative Book. Gein is a New York Kundiman Poetry fellow and is featured on the Dig Your Roots Canadian Spoken Word CD. She has released two CDs Thousand Mile Voice and Burning Money for You which are a warm and distinctive blend of East Asian acoustic instruments and electronic brushed beats. She is classically trained in piano and french horn and has trained with the erhu (Chinese violin) virtuoso Shao Lin. Gein is the Artistic Director of Eventual Ashes, the Asian Arts Freedom School and a co-owner of the Gladday Bookshop.

Gein Wong is Toronto based playwright, poet and music composer whose works have been performed in North America, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean and East Asia. She appears on the Dig Your Roots Canadian Spoken Word CD and is a New York Kundiman Poetry Fellow. She was nominated for the 2010 Ontario KM Hunter Award in Theatre and is currently developing the theatre pieces Hiding Words and Shelter Other playwriting credits include Salt Fish Girl 1 and How We (For)got Here (co-writer). "She is published in Strike the Wok: Chinese Canadian Prose and TOK2: Writing the New Toronto". Gein is classically trained in piano and french horn, and trains with the renowned erhu (Chinese violin) virtuoso Shao Lin. Discography credits: Burning Money for You and Thousand Mile Voice. She is Artistic Director of Asian Arts Freedom School, founder of Eventual Ashes and Co-Artistic Director of the Movement Project.