Ibukun Fasunhan is a producer, stage manager, playwright, producer, and researcher. As a national/international artist whose works have graced different theatres globally in London, United Arab Emirates, and South Africa, amongst others, his interest spans the area of musical theatre, site-specific theatre, and children’s theatre. Before leaving Nigeria for Canada, he was one of the most sought-after stage managers in Nigeria. He was selected as one of the five African theatre producers to participate in the “Pan-African Creative Exchange Producers Lab” in South Africa and the “Playwright Virtual Lab” between 6 Nigerian and UK emerging playwrights. Academically, he is interested in site-specific theatre, applied theatre, spectatorship, spatial dynamics, and decolonization. He has published peer-reviewed academic articles documenting site-specific theatre practice in Nigeria, including a co-authored book on Cultural and Creative Arts for students in Nigeria from Basic 7-9. Ibukun is the artistic director of Eclectique Theatre, and he’s currently pursuing his doctoral studies in media and artistic research at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Babatunde Onikoyi is a film scholar, critic, researcher and teaching assistant in the department of film, University of Regina. Before he arrived in Canada in 2022 Babatunde was involved in both film and theatre productions in Nigeria his country of origin from his undergraduate years while pursuing a degree in Theatre in Ibadan. He worked with Directors and artist scholars in both fields such as Dapo Adelugba, Yemi Osuntokun, Bayo Oduneye, Albert Egbe, Reginald Ebere, Bisi Adigun, Bayo Alawiye, Isreal Eboh and Dapo Sikuade, Femi Osofisan and others. He has performed major and multiple roles in plays such as Femi Osofisan’s Midnight Blackout and Restless Run of Locust, Debo Shotiminu’s Onion Skin, Wole Soyinka’s Kongi’s Harvest and Death and the King’s Horseman, Loraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Ola Rotimi’s Kunrunmi and The God’s Are Not to Blame, Rasheed Gbadamosi’s Trees Grow in the Desert.

Kaydence Banga (she/her) is an emerging artist from Stockholm, Saskatchewan who recently graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Performance (General Concentration) and Media, Arts, and Performance (Music Concentration) with a minor in Psychology from the University of Regina in June 2022. In the theatre world, Kaydence works as an actor, scenic painter, set designer, costume designer, sound designer, front of house manager, and most recently as a stage manager. Her recent theatre credits have been working as the stage manager and designer for Night Sweats by Bradley McDougall, design consultant for I Have No Idea by Nathan Coppens, acting in the University of Regina’s production of Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, acting in the University of Regina’s production of Come Along, acting in the University of Regina’s The Portrait Project, and designing the University of Regina’s devised production of 4OUR. Her projects include stage managing Rites of Passage by Ibukun Fasunhan (On Cue Performance Hub) and designing The Spotted Cat and the Sinha Swallow (On Cue Performance Hub). When she is not working on a play, you can find her composing music for saxophone quartet, small ensemble, chamber ensemble, wind quintet, classical orchestra, and electroacoustic music or working as a Visitor Experience Host at Government House where she plays the lovable young author, Effie Flora Rothwell. Some of her recent compositions include “Letters From The Ocean” (a wind quintet commissioned by the Strata Festival for the 2022 performances) and “The Cave” (a soundscape performance for the SK Theatre Design Festival).