Your friendly neighborhood potatoes
potatoCakes_digital is an award winning multimedia design and technical integration company started by Emily Soussana and Andrew Scriver, based out of Tiotia:ke (Montreal, Canada).
Officially incorporated as a company in Canada and Quebec in 2021—named as a collective in 2018 with a video design at Osheaga Music Festival for John Jacob Magistery—potatoCakes_digital has been unofficially working together since 2016, designing video, lighting, sound, set, and costumes, as well as production managing and technical directing together on numerous live performance productions for local companies and others across Canada. We do theatre, opera, dance, live music, visual and interactive installation art, and digital art. Nothing is beyond our vision.
The collective’s mandate is to create singularly cohesive designs for productions as a whole, taking all choices of all the elements into consideration with one another, and to technically helm and realize these ideas fully from conception to performance. That said, we sometimes like to focus on one or two particular elements of a production, to really zero in on its complexity and delve into the heart of the story.
Some of potatoCakes_digital’s main interests in the performing arts involves 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.
Emily and Andrew met while studying at the National Theatre School of Canada, in the Set and Costume Design, and, Production Design and Technical Arts programs respectively. Since then they have grown as artists and creators in the performing arts world, taking on larger and larger projects each year, expanding their scope and focusing their talents.
