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Sky Fairchild-Waller (b. 1987) is an artist, administrator, and consultant living and working in Toronto. Originally from Whistler, British Columbia he is an alum of Canada's National Ballet School and received an HBFA and HBA from York University's School of Art, Media, Performance & Design before pursuing graduate study at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He served on the Board of Directors of Dance Media Group/ Groupe Danse Média, publisher of Canada's Dance Magazine The Dance Current; was a founding member of The Toronto Dance Community Love-In's Board of Directors, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Dancemakers.

For 25 years he performed in limited engagements with the Canadian Opera Company, National Ballet of Canada, Scottish Ballet, Toronto International Film Festival, and Oregon Ballet Theater; in the works of Reid Anderson, Perry Bard, James Kudelka, Yoshi Oida, Tino Sehgal, Twyla Tharp; and in world premieres by Diane Borsato, Susan Cash, Brendan Fernandes, David Frankovich, John Greyson, Will Kwan, Heather Nicol, Tracey Norman, and Lucy Rupert. For a decade he served in various capacities for Brooklyn-based Belinda McGuire Dance Projects in presentations across Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean.

Live and lens-based work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and internationally presented and exhibited in Assisi, Beijing, Boston, Brooklyn, Cairo, Calgary, Cologne, Montréal, New Delhi, São Paulo, Toronto, Turin, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Zürich. In 2013, he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography and later served on the Jury of the dance division during the 2015/16 Season. A former Metcalf Foundation Intern, he was the inaugural Artistic Director Intern for World Stage 2013 at Harbourfront Centre; is an alum of the Canadian Stage Royal Bank of Canada Emerging Artist Program; and a 3-time recipient of The Koerner Foundation's Award in Performing Arts.

Creative work has been featured in the Canadian Theatre Review; The Dance Current; Border Crossings Magazine; Her Royal Majesty; and appeared in The Huffington Post; The Globe & Mail; Toronto Star; Toronto Sun; Daily Xtra, and Presses de L'Universite Laval. As an invited speaker he has lectured at McMaster University's School of the Arts and Department of Communication Studies & Media Arts; York University's School of Art, Media, Performance & Design; Brock University's Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, and Rutgers University's School of Communication & Information.

Former appointments include the Canadian Opera Company; Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Dancer Transition Resource Centre, and The Harriet Tubman Institute. In 2020, he founded The Auxverb Institute as a boutique creative consultancy for individuals and entities undertaking national and international independent charitable, non-profit, or commercial enterprise; supporting academics, administrators, advocates, artists, choreographers, clinicians, curators, dance companies, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, film festivals, performers, print magazines, and researchers.