What You Won''t Do For Love: A Conversation

About David SuzukiMiriam FernandesRavi JainTara Cullis

Dr. David Suzuki has made it his life's work to help humanity understand appreciate respect and protect nature. A scientist broadcaster author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation he is a gifted interpreter of science and nature who provides audiences with a compelling look at the state of our environment underscoring both the successes we have achieved in the battle for environmental sustainability and the strides we still have to make. Both inspiring and realistic he offers leading-edge insights into sustainable development and model for a world in which humanity can live well and still protect our environment. He is familiar to television audiences as host of the CBC science and natural history television series The Nature of Things and to radio audiences as the original host of CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks as well as the acclaimed series It's a Matter of Survival and From Naked Ape to Superspecies. David was the recipient of The Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television's 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award.An award-winning writer and former faculty member of Harvard University Tara Cullis has been a key player in environmental movements in the Amazon Southeast Asia Japan and British Columbia.She was a founder of the Turning Point Initiative now known as the Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative. This brought First Nations of British Columbias central and northern coasts into a historic alliance protecting the ecology of the region known as the Great Bear Rainforest. In 1990 Dr. Tara Cullis co-founded with Dr. David Suzuki the David Suzuki Foundation to collaborate with Canadians from all walks of life including government and business to conserve our environment and find solutions that will create a sustainable Canada through science-based research education and policy work. Tara founded or co-founded nine other organizations before co-founding the David Suzuki Foundation.Tara has been adopted and named by Haida Gitgaat Heiltsuk and Namgis First Nations.Miriam Fernandes is a Toronto-based artist who has worked as an actor director and theatre-maker around the world.  Recent directing and creation credits include Hayavadana (Soulpepper Theatre) Nesen (MiniMidiMaxi Festival Norway) The First Time I Saw the Sea (YVA Company Norway). She is currently is co-writing/adapting for the stage the ancient epic Mahabharata (Why Not Theatre/Shaw Festival) is developing a Deaf/hearing production of Lady Macbeth (in partnership with 1S1 Collective) and is the co-writer of What You Wont Do for Love with Drs. David Suzuki and Tara Cullis. Miriam is the recipient of the JBC Watkins Award and was nominated for the inaugural Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize.  She is also the co-artistic director of Why Not Theatre and has trained with Anne Bogarts SITI Company and is a graduate of École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Toronto-based stage director Ravi Jain is a multi-award-winning artist known for making politically bold and accessible theatrical experiences in both small indie productions and large theatres. As the founding artistic director of Why Not Theatre Ravi has established himself as an artistic leader for his inventive productions international producing/collaborations and innovative producing models which are aimed to better support emerging artists to make money from their art.Ravi was twice shortlisted for the 2016 and 2019 Siminovitch Prize and won the 2012 Pauline McGibbon Award for Emerging Director and the 2016 Canada Council John Hirsch Prize for direction. He is a graduate of the two-year program at École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He was selected to be on the roster of clowns for Cirque du Soleiel. Currently Sea Sick which he co-directed will be on at the National Theatre in London his adaptation of tThe Indian epic Mahabarata will premier at the Shaw Festival and What You Wont Do For Love starring David Suzuki will premier in 2021.