Deneh’Cho Thompson (he/they) is a director, actor and playwright and displaced and dispossessed member of the Pehdzeh ki Nation. As Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan Deneh’Cho oversees the wîcêhtowin Theatre Program, one of few Indigenous theatre programs at a Canadian university. Deneh’Cho’s research focuses on the development, naming, and centring of Indigenous pedagogies, new play development, and modes of collaboration while centering the values of reciprocity, respect and reflexivity. Deneh’Cho is also engaged in the (re)storying of personal family archives focusing on healing, resilience, and Indigenous storywork as a pathway towards the creation of new works of theatre.

Ken has been a freelance designer/creator and educator for the past 15 years. Ken’s award-winning set, lighting, costume, and video designs have appeared on stages across Canada, the United States and Europe. Ken has been a resident artist at Soulpepper Theatre company as well as the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. Ken's most recent credits include the set design for Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan's Hamlet & Done/Undone, Persephone Theatre's Native Gardens, Crows Theatre's  The Wrong Bashir, and The Shaw Festival's Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart.

Ken is a past president of the Associated Designers of Canada and is currently the president of the IATSE local ADC659. 

Since the fall of 2021, Ken has been a faculty position at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon teaching in the School for the Arts.

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.

Jane is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist and all-round creative person from rural Saskatchewan. She studied at the University of Regina and graduated from George Brown College's Theatre School in 2020. She returned home to the prairies where her heart sings the loudest, and has since founded Correction Line Productions, which has successfully produced its first show. Jane has roots in community theatre, and is a strong advocate for emerging artists and the challenges they face.

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

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.

Bobbi Jones (they/she) is a queer emerging artist, recent USask grad (BFA’21), and settler on Treaty 6 Territory. Singing actor, writer, director, composer, and founder of Little Libertine Playhouse, recent credits include “Final Notice” (Whirligig Theatre, ‘24), “The Art of French Cooking” (25th Street Theatre, ‘24), “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” (Persephone, ‘23) and “Breaking the Curse” (Ferre Play/25th Street, ‘22). Bobbi is most proud of their work in creating original musicals, cultivated by their passion for story telling and lyric writing. “Typecastress” (‘22) and “Commedia dell’Farte” (‘23) are soon to be joined by Bobbi’s newest script, “Georgette and the Epic Queer Journey to Hell and Back”. Stay tuned!

Nathan is a Mad/Crip actor, musician, puppeteer, playwright, producer, budding music director, and founder of In The Headlights, a theatre company focused on creating and presenting neurodivergent art. His play, I Have No Idea, recently played to sold out audiences as part of Live Five’s 2023/24 season and just finished a provincial tour. He has worked with Dancing Sky Theatre, Globe Theatre, the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre, Souris Valley Theatre, Dumb Ax Productions, Live Five, Wide Open Children’s Theatre, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, and Persephone Theatre, among others. Nathan also recently completed filming Season 2 of The Feather News, which is planned to air on APTN Lumi in the coming months. He is a graduate of the University of Regina Theatre Department and the Globe Theatre Conservatory, and has recently studied clown under John Turner. You can follow In The Headlights on Instagram @intheheadlightsyxe and on Facebook @In The Headlights YXE.

Judith Schulz (she/her) is no stranger to SATP and has been working with us as our Communications & Engagement Coordinator since October of 2021. She is based in Saskatoon with roots in Rosthern, SK where she grew up and developed a hearty love for theatre and the performing arts. Judith holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design from the University of Saskatchewan and has a passion for making stories come to life through lighting, video design, abstract sets, directing, or support roles like stage management.

Judith also has a great love for building community and relationships. She is excited to step into the very big shoes that Mark Claxton left behind and carry on the work of supporting and advocating for you and the theatre and live performing arts community here in SK. She would love to meet with each one of you and chat about how SATP can better support you as an artist, arts administrator, or organization.

Liz (she/her) is is a queer singer, actor, coach and dramaturge born and raised on Treaty One Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A graduate of the University of Winnipeg Honours: Acting Program, her work has taken her across the Prairies, to Toronto and back again. Her ultimate goal is to craft a creative career that aligns with her personal values of intersectionality, accessibility, joyful engagement, and empowerment.

Liz has a great deal of experience in theatre administration and social media marketing, as well as a passion for connecting artists and supporting community growth.