Season One Cast and Crew
Mauri Bernstein is a Vancouver-based motion picture editor and creative problem-solver. Raised on the sets of hundreds television commercials, she was defending aesthetic choices in the editing room at age seven. For reals. Her early career is distinguished as a performer in television, film, and theatre, spanning from a supporting role on Doogie Howser, MD to eleven years as a principal performer with ComedySportz Los Angeles to seven seasons under Salem the cat on ABC’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch to dozens of puppets in Team America, World Police. After emigrating to Canada, her work shifted behind the camera as she applied her diverse storytelling prowess to editing. Principally, she edits MOW’s airing for Hallmark, UPtv, Lifetime Television, OUTtv and more. She also edited a narrative feature in Chinese, Fatal Visit, and collaborated on two works with Multi-Media Artist, Althea Thauberger. Mauri’s own independent shorts have screened internationally at numerous festivals. She is a graduate of New York University, attended both Tisch School of the Arts and SEHNAP, and worked on a Master’s Degree in Consciousness Studies from the Holmes Institute.
Scarlet Chen is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and stand-up comic with a diverse and accomplished portfolio. She has worked as a bilingual filmmaker in China on major films including Kill Bill, The Kite Runner, and The Karate Kid (2010). After serving as a showrunner for Chinese TV series, she sold her Sci-Fi thriller Dream Raider to HBO Asia. Her feature script Fortune Springs won first place in the 2018 UCLAx Feature Screenplay Competition. After immigrating to Canada, Scarlet expanded her career into stand-up comedy, opening for Maria Bamford and performing at LA’s Burbank Comedy Festival and BC’s South Rock Comedy Festival. She has produced comedy shows across BC, promoting women, LGBTQ, and immigrant comics, and organized / hosted the first-ever Asian Heritage Month comedy show on Gabriola Island. In addition to her comedy work, Scarlet consulted on the play On The Head, which won Outstanding Original Screenplay at the 2024 Victoria One Act Play Festival. She is also involved in Forum Theatre workshops and was a creator / performer in the play Where Do We Belong, featured at the 2024 Nanaimo Fringe Festival.
Lori Watt is an award-winning actor, writer, director, and producer. With a background in theatre, Lori honed her craft through studies in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and New York and is an alumna of the Gastown Actors Studio, and the National Voice Intensive. Lori received theatre nominations and awards for her work as Lil, in Particular Class of Women, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and Usherette in Rocky Horror Show. Film credits include Rorschach’s Mother in Watchmen, Sam in Embedded and Prudence in Hope is Lost. In 2009, she co-founded Frolicking Divas and produced and acted in several women-driven theatre productions, including Rabbit Hole, Lascivious Something, and the Jessie Award-nominated Canadian premiere of Heathers: The Musical. Lori’s writer/director debut film Henderson continues to win awards and screen globally. She recently produced the sci-fi feature Time Helmet, (Best Comedy Feature at GEN CON, Best Screenplay and Best Chrononaut at Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival). In 2022 Lori founded Triqele Productions Inc., with a robust slate of projects in development, including Danika Dinsmore’s screenplay LIMBS (a WFF Women in Focus selection).
Praxie Osong has built her career at the intersection of human development, creative production, and systems thinking. A former dancer with a lifelong relationship to music, she produced, co-hosted, and grew her own podcast from the ground up, first as Lil Black Witch, later rebranded as About that Life, developing her voice as both a host and independent media producer. Years living and teaching abroad shaped a deep appreciation for the diversity of the human experience, which runs through her advocacy and her work as a neurodivergent operations consultant and astrologer. Driven by a belief that art connects us all, she is passionate about communication and amplifying intersectional stories. She is currently pursuing advanced studies in neurodiversity and positive psychology, with a research focus on mental health, spirituality, and ecology. On Social Installations: The Road Trip, she serves as co-producer and on-camera witness, the person in the room asking the questions everyone else is thinking.