potatoCakes_digital is the award winning production design, digital arts, and technical services company of Emily Soussana and Andrew Scriver. Formed initially as a collective in 2018 to design at the Osheaga Music Festival, and fully incorporated in 2021, they have been unofficially working together for almost a decade as an all-encompassing artistic and technical team offering digital dramaturgical support, production management, and technical direction--as well as designing video, lighting, sound, set, and costumes for live performance, installation, and digital art in Tiohtià:ke and across Canada. 

The company’s mandate is to technically helm and realise singularly cohesive designs for productions as a whole from conception to performance. Some of potatoCakes_digital’s main interests involve the integration and interrelation of technology and traditional art forms, and the exploration of how visual and digital art can help facilitate and elevate the telling of a story. Their philosophy of creation is story and character based, and in such intent, all design elements become characters in their own rights. Digital creation is at the centre of their practice, incorporating and networking a variety of tools and systems to create unique visions that serve process and dramaturgy.

As digital dramaturgs, Emily and Andrew have helped push the boundaries of the Canadian performance digital landscape, through their work with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal and the Associated Designers of Canada. With this and other consultation work they are able to expand their mandate to offer technical and digital assistance for others’ creations, to help other creators realise their digital dreams.