Yulissa Campos

An Ecuadorian actor and playwright now living in Saskatoon, pursued her Theatre degree at the University of Saskatchewan. She soon realized there was a distinct lack of performance options as a Latina woman - a vastly different experience than her artistic life growing up in Ecuador. Yulissa founded Ay Caramba! Theatre Company and celebrates the Latinx community by bringing to life characters that accurately portray her culture.

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Henry Woolf

An actor, director, and theatre educator whose career spanned 60 years and the Atlantic Ocean, Henry Woolf grew up in Second World War-era England and was a close associate of iconic playwright Harold Pinter. A former professor in the theatre department at the University of Saskatchewan and director of the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival, his work and teaching have influenced innumerable young and emerging theatre artists.

Saskatchewan's theatre community said goodbye to a legend in 2021 with passing of actor, director, and theatre educator Henry Woolf. In January of 2021, SATP member Kevin Power sat down with Henry for an in-depth conversation about his career, his favourite memories, and his perspectives on our craft. Recorded for the very first episode of SATP's podcast series featuring Saskatchewan artists, this priceless archive is available to listen to below. If, like many of us, you never had the opportunity to meet or work with this giant among us, you are invited to meet him here. RIP and thanks for everything, Henry.

daniel macdonald

An award-winning playwright and educator, Daniel Macdonald’s plays include Blow Wind (Best new play, 2018 Saskatoon Area Theatre awards), A History of Breathing, Velocity, Bang, MacGregor’s Hard Ice Cream and Gas, and Pageant and have been produced across Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. He has been short-listed for the National Carol Bolt Award for Drama and twice short-listed for Regina and Saskatchewan Book of the year. Daniel is a two-time recipient of the City of Regina Writing Award and the winner of the Enbridge PlayRites Award.

Yvette Nolan

An Algonquin playwright, director and dramaturg, Yvette Nolan’s contributions to the national theatre ecology were recently recognized in the form of two prestigious awards: the Gascon-Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Gina Wilkinson Prize. Her works include the play The Unplugging, the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto for Shawnadithit, and the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt (with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight). Her book Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada, was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015.