2026 PRODUCTION TEAM

Danielle Sherman
Producer

Danielle Sherman is a writer from Phoenix, Arizona and a Creative Writing MFA student at UBC. This is her second year on BNPR's production team! Her fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, the Masters Review, the Los Angeles Review, and other publications. Her plays have been performed in BNPR and Emory University's Lenaia Festival. She is the 2025 recipient of the Sudler Prize, the Artistine Mann Award in creative nonfiction, and the Grace Abernethy Scholarship in cross-genre writing. She serves as a prose editor for the Adroit Journal.

Jadan Vines
Production Manager

Jadan Vines (she/her) is a writer, actor, and singer currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC. One of her plays was produced and performed in the 2026 festival, and she is so excited to help bring more students’ work to life on stage. She has performed in numerous plays and musicals in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Vancouver. Her literary work has been published in Loyola Marymount University’s Criterion. She is the recipient of the 2026 William Rea Fellowship in Television and is currently Upstart & Crow’s 2026 Climate Writer in Residence.

Frances Koncan
Faculty Advisor

Frances Koncan (she/they) is an Anishinaabe and Slovene playwright from Couchiching First Nation and Assistant Professor of Playwriting at UBC. They hold a BA in Psychology from the University of Manitoba and an MFA in Playwriting from the City University of New York Brooklyn College. Their work as a playwright includes Women of the Fur Trade, Space Girl, and zahgidiwin/love. Instagram/TikTok: @franceskoncan

Peihwen J. Tai
Associate Producer

Peihwen J. Tai is a Taiwanese/Canadian writer and game designer. She's a fellow of the 2026-27 Critical Play Lab at the UBC Pop Culture Cluster. Her MFA thesis video game "would u still love me if i were a moth?" is loosely inspired by her play Moth Boy (National Queer Theatre, New York, 2026; First Born Theatre, Toronto, 2026; The University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, 2025). Peihwen was the producer last year and is excited to return and support BNPR again.