William (Bill) Hales teaches the technical aspects of theatre and stage management. His areas of expertise include stage and production management, set design, lighting, audio and rigging. Before coming to the University of Regina, he worked as Stage Manager, Technical Director, Production Manager and Technician on over 3000 events ranging from Broadway Musicals on tour to weddings in the theatre.  

Originally from Moose Jaw, Bill graduated from the University of Regina with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. Immediately after graduation he worked with the Globe Theatre and Stage West in Regina and then 25th Street Theatre and Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon. Bill left Saskatoon for Edmonton in 1982 where he worked for Northern Light Theatre, The Citadel Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Workshop West, the Edmonton Fringe Festival, and the Alberta Ballet. A move to Calgary in 1993 led to work with Theatre Calgary as a stage manager and a fly man. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Calgary while working for the University Theatre Services at the University of Calgary. In 1999 he returned to the University of Regina to teach the program where he had first learned his trade. Bill is very happy to be training the next generation of stage managers and technicians.

Bill works closely with The Only Animal Theatre Company based in Vancouver as a designer and a stage manager. He designed the lighting for The Only Animal's NiX a fairytale for the end of the world, a play performed in a geodesic dome and constructed entirely from snow and ice. The play was produced as part of Alberta Theatre Projects 2009 Playwrites Festival in Calgary during February and March. The Only Animal developed the play for four years and this was the first fully realized production. Bill won the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for the 2008/09 Calgary Theatre Season. The play was remounted as the feature cultural event in Whistler B.C. as part of the 2010 Olympic Festival.

He designed the set and lighting for The Only Animal’s Nothing But Sky, the story of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, the creators of Superman. The play won a Jessie Richardson Award in Vancouver for Excellence in Design in 2014.

In 2016 he stage-managed Tinkers, a promenade play that started at a crystal-clear spring fed pond and then moved through a forest and up the side of a mountain.

His latest design was for the Canadian premiere of Slime. The play was performed in Banff and Vancouver in 2018 and was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award in the Lighting Design - Small Theatre category.

Chancz Perry is an award-winning, multi-faceted producer, choreographer, triple-threat performer, and teacher. He has spent more than 35 years in the entertainment industry – on stage, screen and behind the scenes. Chancz is certified in Early Childhood Education from Saskatchewan Polytech, has a BFA in Dance and a BA in Criminology from Simon Fraser University and was pursuing graduate studies in Education (Curriculum and Instruction) at the University of Regina. He has served as an artist in residence in Regina Public Schools and as a sessional instructor at the University of Regina, as well as in several roles at the National Arts Centre, Globe Theatre, Saskatchewan Drama Association, and Dance Saskatchewan Inc., where he made a difference in the lives of people in marginalized communities, local artists, production teams, and children of all ages.

Chancz’s purpose is to bring communities together through art, entertainment, culture, and ways of knowing. In his performances, Chancz offers inspiration, distraction and/or education, using approaches that are traditional, progressive, critical, or a mix. “I hope people take away an extraordinary artistic ability that inspires them to pursue their creative endeavours and natural impulses. I want them to realize that they can have success in pursuing their dreams.”

As a teacher, Chancz sees his role as more suited to dismantling the colonial powers that are systemically, structurally, and culturally oppressing students of varying races, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities. “My aim is to foster and promote a safe space and healthy environment for all students to share, learn, explore, experience, and flourish in school as well as in the world we live.”

For more about Chancz, check out his website at: https://chanczperry.ca, or his video biographies in English https://vimeo.com/219529027 and French https://vimeo.com/739294546

Charlie Peters (ze/hir/hirs) is a theatre and opera director, actor, lighting designer, playwright, dramaturge, poet, and clown based on Treaty 6 Territory. Ze holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Saskatchewan, an MFA in Theatre Practice at the University of Alberta, trained extensively at the Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance, and just finished an MA in Gender and Social Justice Studies (also at the University of Alberta). Ze is the recipient of Saskatoon and Area Theatre Awards for Outstanding Emerging Artist (2013) and Outstanding Lighting Design (Two Corpses Go Dancing, 2015) and was nominated for Outstanding Direction (Diana Son’s Stop Kiss, 2014) and Outstanding Original Script (Many Fires, 2019). Hir artistic work has been seen on stages (and in parks, fields, school gyms, living rooms, and swimming pools) across Western Canada. Charlie is Secretary of the Board of the Saskatchewan Association of Theatre Professionals, Founding Director of Embrace Theatre, and Folk Trail and Live Theatre Coordinator of the Silver Skate Festival. Hir work has been published in Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, Comedy Studies, and on HowlRound. www.charliepeters.ca

Kenilee is a Stage Manager and theatre administrator. She is currently the Director of Production at Regina’s Globe Theatre where she excitedly works behind the scenes to help fellow artists create professional, exciting work for the people of Saskatchewan.

After being bit by the theatre bug as a kid, Kenilee took drama classes throughout childhood. After completing a Bachelor of Education at the University of Regina, she went back to the U of R for her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Stage Management and Technical Theatre; she has been proudly working in the arts ever since.

As a Stage Manager Kenilee has worked on over 50 production – over 35 of them at Globe Theatre – including, I Call myself Princess, Cinderella, Chicago, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Gracie, The Hobbit, Mamma Mia!, Shrek The Musical, Us, A Christmas Carol, Bittergirl – The Musical, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Salt Baby (2017, 2015), Million Dollar Quartet, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline (2016, 2012), and Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash along with many others. Kenilee has also worked on shows throughout Saskatchewan and throughout the country, including shows at the Stratford Festival and Dancing Sky Theatre. She moved into her current position of Director of Production in August 2021.

Outside of the theatre, Kenilee enjoys gardening, reading, quilting, crafting, spending time with family and, most importantly of all, Kenilee is a proud crazy cat lady.

A neurodivergent Treaty 6 based theatre artist, Grahame can be found in many places; working as a performer, writer, producer, designer, voice artist, editor, dramaturg, foley artist, director and stage manager.

Grahame is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with a BFA in Acting and a graduate of the Globe Theatre Conservatory.

Grahame has been seen on stages across Canada and you may have seen his work at Live Five, Persephone Theatre, The Globe Theatre, Wide Open, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan and many more indie venues.

Grahame is the Artistic Producer of Buttered Ghost Theatre, a Treaty 6 based company that produces new and exciting work. Grahame is an active member with The Sketchy Bandits sketch comedy group.
If you like podcasts, check out Dr. Frightful Presents: A Podcast which is created, produced and curated by Grahame and created with a bundle of incredible talent. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Dannyll Challis has been involved in the performing arts for more than 30 years. His love of the arts began while growing up in North Battleford. After High School Dannyll attended Red Deer College and majored in Technical Direction. Dannyll has worked with Saskatchewan Express, New Dance Horizons, Golden Apple Theatre, Globe Theatre, Do It with Class Young Peoples Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Regina Summer Stage and the Broadway North Theatre Company.

Dannyll is currently the Production Manager for the EA Rawlinson Centre for the ARTS, owns and operates Artistic Nomad Productions, and in his spare time is the Artistic Director of Tale Spinner Theatre, as always Dannyll must thank his beautiful wife Susan who allows him to keep his head in the clouds, even when it should be on her shoulder.

Roxanne is a director, actor, and theatre educator. She has directed with Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre, Spark Theatre, E.A. Rawlinson Centre, Broadway North Theatre Company, Keyano Theatre, and has had the pleasure of working with Sum Theatre (Saskatoon), Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, and on multiple other theatre and interdisciplinary projects along the journey of her career.

As a university instructor, Roxanne works with First Nations University, University of Saskatchewan, SUNTEP, and the University of Regina. Roxanne develops programming and teaches drama for youth programs including Broadway North Youth Company, as she did with Drama Force (Fort McMurray), and Little People’s and Teen Players (Kingston, Jamaica). She is the Artistic Director and a founding member of Spark Theatre in Prince Albert.

Interested in governance and policy as instruments for change, Roxanne has served on many boards and contributed to strategic planning and arts and culture policy work with multiple organizations. Roxanne proudly serves the Prince Albert and area community as General Manager of the EA Rawlinson Centre for the Arts.  She is honoured to serve as a Board Member for the Saskatchewan Association of Theatre Professionals.

Roxanne holds a BFA in Drama in Performance (University of Lethbridge), an MA in Drama (University of Guelph), and a Master of Teaching (BEd), (University of Calgary).

Traci Foster is a queer disabled somatic artist and theatre maker who explores and develops her work with a focus on where awareness, intuition, and action intersect in the (anomalous) body. She works with creation as care, and unapologetically seeks pleasure in all aspects of life, including art making.

She was Canada’s first certified Fitzmaurice Voicework™ instructor and is now on the advanced training team for the Fitzmaurice Institute, introducing access intimacy to the Fitzmaurice teachers and various institutions wanting to build intimate inclusivity within performance. When there is time, she maintains a private practice as a bodyworker (BCST™), trauma therapist (SE™ & OI™), and somatic coaching practice in all aspects of performance exploration and healing.

Traci is the founder and executive| artistic| director of Listen to Dis’ Community Arts, Saskatchewan’s first and only disability-led arts organization and is an unrelenting advocate of disability culture. She has worked with her company for over a decade developing a portfolio of multi- disciplinary creative projects aimed at increasing professional opportunities for disabled artists. These actors and musicians now perform innovative, original work across the province tackling issues of sensuality and disability, the desire to belong, ableism, and the political right to live in one’s body. This organization, and the art it has created, is rumored to be shifting perception of disability in actionable ways helping to dismantle the ableist paradigms inherent within the art sector.

Traci is extremely grateful to the Creator, her mentors, and ancestors for helping her find her way into embodied presence and practice. She is the recipient of the 2015 YWCA’s Woman of Distinction Jacqui Shumiatcher Arts Award and the 2022 SK Arts Awards Organization Leadership for the work of Listen to Dis’ Community Arts Organization.

She enjoys life, loves love, and feels honoured to be a part of the natural world. She loves art, especially the stuff that makes her laugh, cry, or squirm. And finally, she loves animals, all animals, especially her beloved cats Peep and Luna and her beloved dogs Leita Lou and Kit.

Joseph Shane McLellan is an actor, director, and singer/songwriter based out of Regina, Saskatchewan. He received his Bachelor of Arts majoring in Theatre and Performance from the University of Regina in 2020. Joseph has since then been passionately involved in theatre and film projects throughout the province! He also releases original music online under his artist name, Joseph Shane.