Our Founders

Please allow us to introduce ourselves– we are the Artistic Directors of Wet Ink.

Susinn McFarlen, Actor-Playwright and screenwriter.

Susinn is an award winning actress who has worked across the country.  One of the founders of WIC, she started writing plays for the stage 13 years ago.  Critics called her play SINCE YOU LEFT US one of the best plays in Vancouver in 2014.

Loretta Seto, Playwright, Screenwriter, Fiction Writer and Children’s Book Author.

Loretta Seto is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and producer, as well as children’s book author. Her plays include the smash hit Dirty Old Woman, and The Ones We Leave Behind, which won a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Alannah Ong). Loretta is the author of the children’s picture book Mooncakes (Orca Books), now in its 5th print run, as well as a co-founder of Wet Ink Collective. Having earned her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC, Loretta is excited by the new challenges she faces writing in different genres. She lives in Vancouver, BC.

Lynna Goldhar Smith,
Visual Artist, Theatre maker and Songwriter,

Lynna is an artist of mixed ancestry who divides her time between visual art and theatre. She has directed 40 stage plays and written and/or directed 16 solo shows, some of which have toured extensively throughout North America, England and Europe. Lynna is currently working on creating a new multimedia solo work and painting daily in her studio. She is a founding member of Wet Ink Collective.