Boomer Stacey

International Selection Committee 2026

Boomer Stacey is a mixed-blood settler/immigrant with roots extending to Cornwall (England), Sri Lanka, Nederlands and Portugal. Boomer is currently working as the Artistic Producer for Boca del Lupo - a performance creation company based in Vancouver, Canada. Boomer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University, with a focus on photography, painting and drawing. Before joining Boca, Boomer served as the Executive Director of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) as well as an Artistic Advisor at the New Victory Theater in New York City. Boomer has also provided leadership for the International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) based in Philadelphia, PA, as Executive Director, as well as Artistic Director of the Milk International Children’s Festival of the Arts at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. He has recently joined the Board of Directors for the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver. Boomer exhibits nomadic tendencies, is a social introvert, loves to cook, excels at gazing into campfires, loves a good IPA and lives to explore the coastlines of the world.

📣 Hi Boomer!

🎤 What are you most looking forward to being part of the International Selection Committee?
I love these collaborative international processes involving groups of intelligent, creative people. It's an honour to be working with this group as well as to be engaged in the responsibility of choosing such a select few productions to share with the festival and its communities, professional and otherwise. It's like being Jultomten, bringing these little gifts to bibu!

🎤 What does bibu mean to you?
I was lucky to be at the first bibu in Lund many moons ago so it's quite special to be able to come back to the festival and be involved in the process. I met so many amazing people and saw some incredible and provocative work. I think it's quite a privilege and achievement to have a national platform like bibu - very important for the national community, but also so incredible for the global community to have an entry way into the scene. I'm very much looking forward to this process and to "coming back" to bibu.