Nathan (he/him) is an actor / musician / puppeteer / arts educator. He is a graduate of the University of Regina and the Globe Theatre Conservatory, and has performed on stages from BC to Ontario. He has worked extensively with Wide Open Children's Theatre, and has also been seen on stage with Globe Theatre, the Saskatchewan Playwrights' Centre, Dancing Sky Theatre, Live Five, and Souris Valley Theatre, among others. He has also toured the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit, and teaches piano lessons at the Saskatoon Academy of Music. He wrote the music for Through The Woods of Life, an ebook by Girl Friday Creations, and for a recent production at the University of Regina. He would like to thank the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts for funding the development of this piece.

Traci Foster is an inclusion focused multidisciplinary/somatic artist, educator, coach and director, who was Canada’s first certified Fitzmaurice VoiceworkTM instructor (2006) and is on of Canada’s lead practitioners of the work. She explores and develops her work through somatic voice and arts with a focus on where awareness, intuition and action intersect. Traci is the recent and humbled recipient of the 2015 YWCA’s Woman of Distinction Jacqui Shumiatcher Arts Award.

Her latest area of artistic focus is as founder and artistic director of Listen to Dis’ community Arts Organization Inc. and her crip theater company, The Other Ordinary.

Traci is the co-creator and director of Neither Heroes Nor Ordinary People, a theatre production done in collaboration with Kathleen Irwin the theatre department head, at the University of Regina, through a class called Devising Inclusive Theatre. To create a more inclusive method of teaching, she has recently been engaged in creating adaptations of Fitzmaurice VoiceworkTM as well as physical and vocal improvisations with of variously abled actors and the director of the Fitzmaurice Institute Saul Kotzubei in Los Angeles.

Traci’s work in the disability community began in 2006 when she co-produced the CP Salon Tour, featuring a show called CP Salon about a man living with cerebral palsy and his quest to live, learn, and love, despite his disability. The tour included a weekend workshop for emerging and professional disabled and non-disabled participants, which she co-taught with the project’s producer and director, Fides Krucker. The success of the project and level of interest and creative ability sparked a now lifelong passion to work and create within this community.

Following several successful community projects within the variously abled community, Traci became artist in residence for Common Weal Community Arts Inc. in collaboration with South Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre (2008 – 2012) where she worked with emerging artists and creative professionals living with disabilities. The four-year residency cultivated a performance collective made up of 12 individuals living with varying disabilities who attend weekend and weekly workshops and classes taught by Traci and various local, national and international artists brought in to facilitate broader learning through different mediums. Through her four years as artist in residence she formed Listen To Dis’ Voice performance ensemble and subsequently founded Listen To Dis’ Community Arts Organization Inc. Saskatchewan’s only disability led disability arts organization.

Traci’s acting credits include The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls; Room With Five Walls; Pretty Girl Ugly; Everything’s In the Box; Tracing Steps; and 12 Crows – An excerpt. Directing credits include Stuck in the Middle, If the Shoe Fits, Cassandra’s Way, Roz, pieces of Dis’ and Dat, Neither Heroes Nor Ordinary People, and Mine To Have: sensuality and circumstances. She has participated in numerous performance art and experimental theatre/dance performances with New Dance Horizon’s and Curtain Razors, as well as co-created and acted as a creative development coach on many local projects. TV and film credits include Renegade Press, Corner Gas, and Tideland.

Shelby (she/they) is a stage manager, arts administrator, set and costume designer, technician, and puppet artist. They have worked extensively with Listen to Dis', Saskatoon Opera, GTNT, Globe Theatre, Wide Open Theatre, and several other companies across Saskatchewan. They are a graduate of the U of R.

Kristel Harder (she/they) is a queer, disabled, award winning actor, singer, musician, and cabaret writer. They hold their Masters in Musical Theatre Performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and are a graduate of MacEwan University's Theatre Arts Program. She is a settler on Treaty 6 Territory and is thankful to live and work in this beautiful community. Kristel got diagnosed with ADHD in her early thirties and is so delighted to get to be a part of this thoughtful, hilarious, and relatable show. Select credits include: Lu in After Sundown (Live Five Theatre), Ms. Crotch in The Fiancée (Persephone Theatre ), Lana Sherwood in It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Persephone Theatre), Yenta in Fiddler on the Roof (Persephone Theatre), Diana in Next to Normal (Cornerstone Theatre), Evelyn in I Lost My Husband (Persephone Theatre) (SATA: Outstanding Leading Performance), Duchess Fredericka and Hymen in As You Like It (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan), The Oracle in The Penelopiad (FerrePlay Theatre) (SATA: Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Production), Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (Edinburgh Fringe) and her one woman shows EmotionLoss: I'm pretty sure, if I still had feelings, I would be alarmed, and Bi Bye Bye: A Queer Cabaret.

Shaylee Rosnes is a physically disabled artist who was also recently diagnosed with ADHD. She is both an actor and, as of recently, administrative assistant with Listen to Dis’ Community Arts Organization. In October of 2022, she graduated from the University of Regina with a Bachelor’s of Social Work and hopes to use that training in future theatre work. She is a production mentee for I Have No Idea and is thankful to be working with the team to develop stage management skills.

Sydney Taylor is an actor, voice actor, writer, aspiring director, and Globe Theatre school alumni. They are crip and queer and want to create unapologetic art that reflects and honours that. Currently, Sydney is a member of Listen to Dis’ where they have started a mentorship with Traci Foster. This winter, they completed a mentorship as assistant director with Jennifer Brewin of the Globe Theatre throughout the production Making Spirits Bright.

Select Credits: Devised Young Company 2019/2020, Globe’s Haunted Ghost Tour 2020 (performer), Art Out Loud: Messages Through Time 2021 (voice actor and co-writer), The Last Children 2021 (production assistant), Making Spirits Bright 2022 (assistant director)

Kaydence Banga (she/her) is an emerging artist from Stockholm, Saskatchewan who recently graduated from 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 acting in the University of Regina’s production of Love and Information by Caryl Churchill and designing the University of Regina’s devised production of 4OUR. 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, or electroacoustic music. 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).