Abdulsalam is a Syrian poet and passionate photographer. His poetry explores themes of exile, homeland, identity, memory, and sometimes, love. Before being resettled to Canada in 2021, he lived with his family in Malaysia for nine years. In 2018 he performed at George Town Literary Festival, and in 2019 he won the Second Prize in The Migrant & Refugees Poetry Competition.

Ammanda Zelinski (she/her) is an actor/singer/dancer with her BA in Media Art and Performance from the University of Regina. Recent performances she has been part of include The SpongeBob Musical (Sterling Studios), Seatbelt (Listen to Dis), Jesus Christ Superstar (Sterling Productions), and touring performances of Neither Heroes Nor Ordinary People (The Other Ordinary). She has been involved with the Listen to Dis organization and its professional travelling company, The Other Ordinary, for over 5 years. For the summers of 2017 to 2019, Ammanda worked as a teacher assistant with the Globe Theatre School, in partnership with Autism Resource Centre. Her dance experience includes jazz, ballet, and lindy hop, which she enjoys doing both onstage and off. Ammanda would like to thank her family and friends for their continuous love and support in her (theatre) life.

Like the trees which bear their name, Aspen is prairie-rooted and thrives in a network of mutual support and care. Their influences include fatness, parenthood, neurodivergence, feeling alone in a crowd, and striving to build the queer family of their dreams.

In 2019, Aspen was a member of Regina's Word Up slam poetry team selected to compete at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.

By day Aspen works for The Man and by night they write love poems to any other gender.

Carter Powley is an active freelance saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, composer/arranger, and educator, holding degrees in music composition and education from the University of Regina.

He has shared the stage with artists such as Canadian jazz icon P.J. Perry, Jack Semple, Peter Dyksman, Bob Moyer, Wayne Bergeron, Michael Kaeshammer, Kevin Mohagany, Karen Plato, Jason Marsalis, Ranee Lee, singer/songwriter and Juno nominee Alysha Brilla, and 'Tower of Power' drummer Herman Matthews.

Chancz Perry is an award-winning, multi-faceted producer, choreographer, triple-threat performer, and teacher. He has spent more than 30 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 Curriculum and Instruction at 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 Globe Theatre, Saskatchewan Drama Association, and Dance Saskatchewan Inc, where he made a difference in the lives of people in marginalized communities, local artists and 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.”

Coltrane Manz is a 24 year-old proletarian working in local entertainment and healthcare. His pronouns are he/him, and his name comes from the legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. Early on, Coltrane disappointed his namesake by taking up the trombone. Sparing us his 10-year rusty stylings on it, he will instead be performing a spoken word piece written in inspiration from a couple of years spent in hermit-like ponderance throughout the pandemic. His cats declined to comment on Coltrane's rehearsal method, though they assure you that the energy will speak for itself.

Dan Innes is a hip hop artist based out of Regina, Saskatchewan. Rhyming under the name 'ThatmanDan' he draws parallels of the human experience over beats and with rhyme. He has been writing rhymes and rapping them since he was 11 years old, out loud and with others since he was 15. Dan's work has been featured on both local and provincial radio and television. He has travelled and taught workshops on hip hop culture to youth in different parts of Canada. Dan's life has featured a wide array of experiences which he draws from to describe universal themes. He has two beautiful children aged 10 and 12 and lives in the same Cathedral Village he was raised in.

Jason Yuen (he/him) is a triple-threat performer from Regina, Saskatchewan. He holds two degrees in actuarial science and education. Along with acting, singing, and dancing, he enjoys playing the piano, especially jazz music. He taught swing dance lessons within the Regina community from 2017-2018 through Queen City Lindy and is currently teaching a movement class for youth with Listen To Dis. Recent performances of his include The SpongeBob Musical (Sterling Studios) where he brought the role of Squidward Q. Tentacles to life, as well as Jekyll and Hyde and Avenue Q (Sterling Productions) where he was the trusty rehearsal accompanist and played in the orchestra.

Joseph Shane (McLellan) is a Canadian singer/songwriter with a musical background in voice, piano, and drums. Playful alliteration, multilayered rhyme-schemes, poetic imagery and pop-culture structure Joseph's lyrics and capture the spirit of loss, regret, and heartbreak. Joseph releases original EDM and Pop music alongside brother and producer, Ben Arthur.

Josephina is a 26 year old female indie/folk acoustic artist, originally born in Edmonton, Alberta and moved to Regina, Saskatchewan in 2017. Josephina has enjoyed singing since the age of 7, and has always found opportunities to sing with school functions. Josephina is a self-learned guitar, piano, and vocal musician. Within the last two years Josephina has joined a choir to sing with the Regina Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven No.9, has sang with DanTheMan featuring in one of his songs, and has joined a new cover band.

Instagram: @tex_josephina

Kohl Bustamante Is a guitarist from Regina. A fourth-year music student at the U of R, his musical styles range from Cinematic Scores to Classic Rock and beyond. In addition to guitar Kohl also plays a number of other instruments and is always down for a jam.

Laurel Schell is an actor and theatre creator. Originally from Edmonton, she trained as an actor in Toronto, Halifax, and Paris before finding her way to Regina last year. When not making theatre, she works as a freelance writer and voice actor. She also volunteers for Amarok Society, a charity which educates mothers in the poorest parts of the developing world, and trains them to become neighbourhood teachers.

Paul Henrik is an Administrator Advisor with On Cue Steering Committee and on the side a semi-retired health care worker. In between he has worked over 30 years in theatre - as an actor, publicist and administrator - in Denmark and in Canada. However, even after 26 years in his new home country, Paul Henrik is still hesitant to face an audience with the funny accent. But knowing what Copenhagen looks like from Valby Banke, and from much time spent in the neighborhood of The Round Tower, he thinks he has an advantage in conveying some of the unique Danish of Hans Christian Andersen - who would have turned 217 tomorrow. And it is guaranteed Disney free.

Tai Reign is a Two-Spirited poet from Peepeekisis Cree Nation raised in Regina, Sk. They first discovered poetry as a therapeutic outlet, since they’ve realized how powerful words can be. Now they use poetry to share their experiences, world view and make sense of the hardships they’ve experienced.