Anchor Points – Anahita Dehbonehie, Griffin McInnes and Aidan Morishita-Miki (Revelations Collective)

Research focus

Revelations Collective – Anahita Dehbonehie, Griffin McInnes and Aidan Morishita-Miki – will examine ways that live performance could enhance the impact of journalism, and in return how the immediacy of journalism might contribute to the power of theatrical performance. They will collaborate with journalists to ask: can the liveness of performed news heighten a call to action for its audience, and how does the process of crafting a news story relate to the dramaturgical practice of crafting a performance?

About the researchers

Revelations Collective is Anahita Dehbonehie, Griffin McInnes and Aidan Morishita-Miki. As collaborators, we use a unique research-creation model that blends real-world interviews with form-driven devised creation. Past projects include: Revelations, an escape room-inspired theatrical experience developed with The Kick & Push Festival, Upintheair Theatre and Outside the March Theatre, and performed in Kingston, Vancouver and Ottawa; and The [Theatre] Play, a subversive AI experiment informed by dozens of interviews with members of the Tarragon Theatre community as part of the Bulmash-Siegel Award and Residency and developed with The University of Toronto’s BMO Lab.

Anahita Dehbonehie (she/her)
Anahita is an Iranian artist currently based in Toronto. Her practice extends across design, playwriting and direction. Her work has been featured internationally at the Prague Quadrennial, The Vilnius Capital of Culture, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and the St. Peter and Paul Fortress, among others. Design work on both stage and screen has been recognized nationally with multiple nominations and wins. In theatre she has received Dora Awards, Toronto Theatre Critics awards, an Ontario Stage award and a Sterling Haynes Award. Anahita began creating work as a playwright in 2021 and was the recipient of the Urjo Kareda Award at Tarragon Theatre, where her first play will premiere in the coming season. She has been a member of the Gillespie House, Stratford Festival and Gros Morne playwright’s retreats and is a resident artist with Outside the March. Anahita is committed to work that challenges positions of power and creates space for incendiary conversation.

Griffin McInnes (he/him)
Griffin is a director, playwright and dramaturg with a creation practice guided by the belief that form—how performance is experienced—is singularly powerful. That approach has allowed him to create multifarious projects like The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries, a phone-based, pandemic-responsive production performed in over 200 cities worldwide; and The River of Forgetfulness, a Zoom-based collaboration with playwright Karen Hines and The University of Windsor, hailed by The Toronto Star as “ingenious.” He is the Creative Director at Toronto’s Outside the March Theatre, where he was interim executive co-lead in 2025 and currently serves as a core artist at the company and its senior manager of communications and public fundraising. He was the recipient of Tarragon Theatre’s 2023 Bulmash-Siegel New Creation Development Award and Residency, and holds a Master’s Degree from The School of Political Arts (SPEAP) at The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po).

Aidan Morishita-Miki (he/him)
Aidan is an arts administrator, theatre creator, and amateur jock based in Toronto. He has worked in various capacities with companies including ReDefine Arts, Boys in Chairs Collective, Ars Mechanica, Hart House Theatre, and SummerWorks. He worked as a managing producer for FIXT POINT Arts and Media, coordinating various aspects of the company’s The Tale of a Town project and is currently the Producer at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the world’s largest and longest-running queer theatre.