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Sky Fairchild-Waller is an artist, educator, administrator and consultant in Toronto. An alum of Canada's National Ballet School, Sky received an HBFA and HBA from York University's School of Art, Media, Performance & Design prior to 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 as President of Dancemakers' Board of Directors.

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

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 video work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and exhibited internationally in Assisi, Beijing, Boston, Brooklyn, Cairo, Calgary, Cologne, Montréal, New Delhi, São Paulo, Toronto, Turin, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Zürich. In 2009, he was 1 of 3 National Artist Program participants representing the Province of Ontario at the Jeux de Canada Summer Games on Prince Edward Island. A former Metcalf Foundation Intern, he was the inaugural Artistic Director Intern for World Stage 2013 at Harbourfront Centre and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography the same year, later serving on the Jury of the dance division during the 2015/16 Season. He 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.

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.