Joel Bernbaum is a playwright, director, and journalist. From 2013-2023, he served as the artistic director of Sum Theatre. He is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts, Carleton University, and the University of Saskatchewan, where his dissertation was about verbatim theatre’s potential to be used as a community development process. Joel’s produced plays include Operation Big Rock, My Rabbi (with Kayvon Khoshkam), Home Is a Beautiful Word, Reasonable Doubt (with Yvette Nolan and Lancelot Knight) and Being Here: The Refugee Project (with Michael Shamata). Joel lives in Saskatoon with his 10-year-old son, Judah.