Inter-arts creator, writer, performer, teacher and producer Gerry Trentham’s (he/they) life-long dedication to the art of performance has directed the company he founded pounds per square inch performance through three decades of production, created and presented over 50 original works for stage and screen, garnered international performance acclaim and film awards, numerous Toronto Dora awards/nominations and invited international directing, producing, choreographic, teaching and mentoring opportunities on four continents including within major performance training institutions across Turtle Island. Their MFA in theatre and graduate diploma in Voice from York University lead to a core faculty and producer role at one of Canada’s most acclaimed and enduring performance training intensives Canada’s National Voice Intensive (now the Moving Voice Institute), to more than a decade with Denise Fujiwara in creating Butoh/Voice and with Diane Roberts in the development of her Arrivals Legacy Voice practice.  He has honed his approach and practice in his own creation and while originating roles in the works of some of Canada’s most renowned choreographers. Seven-year tenure with Serge Bennathan’s Dancemakers, years with Claudia Moore’s MoonHorse Dance Theatre, more than a decade with Fujiwara Dance Inventions including as cast/voice director in Denise Fujiwara’s hit EUNOIA, and most recently in works by the late Tedd Robinson, and in Zab Maboungou’s Hâltérité has sustained and connected a performance career still fluid into a fifth decade.

“Remankably Lyrical”

Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times

“…powerfully acted by the outstanding Gerry Trentham”.

Clive Barnes of the New York Post