Eric Moschopedis is an award winning interdisciplinary performer, facilitator, educator, and curator. In 2008 Moschopedis completed his Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at University of British Columbia: Okanagan. By combining a child-like curiosity with the scrutiny of an ethnographer, Moschopedis creates community-specific, relational, and participatory works that invite audiences to become active collaborators in the creation of community. In addition to participatory works, Moschopedis maintains a performance practice that oscillates between staged performance, performance for video, installation, performative work, intervention, and walking, finding, and collecting.

During the past decade, Moschopedis has been actively involved in creating and curating performance and visual art in the Calgary community. In 2000, Moschopedis co-founded and directed the Calgary-based interdisciplinary performance company Bubonic Tourist (2000-2006), curated five Mutton Busting international performance and visual art festivals (2002-2006), presented over 550 artists, created over thirty-five original performance/performative works, and co-founded two performance and visual art venues (birds and stone and Motel). Moschopedis is a sessional instructor in the Department of Drama at the University of Calgary and continues to play an active role in the development and dissemination of original interdisciplinary performance and visual art.

Moschopedis has been recognized in numerous publications and most recently was honoured as one of one hundred Alberta theatre artists who have made vital contributions to theatre arts during the one hundred years of this Province’s history. His expertise in creating community through performance has been in great demand and he has spoken on the issue at conferences across Canada.