Nathan (he/him) is a Mad/Crip actor, musician, puppeteer, producer, and playwright. He is delighted to return to On Cue Performance Hub, this time with the RISER project.

I Have No Idea debuted with On Cue in 2023 and has since been performed over 40 times across Saskatchewan and into Manitoba, including a sold-out string of shows in Saskatoon that ended with a waitlist of over 400 people. It has played to over 2,000 people and led to countless people getting the diagnosis and support they needed.

Recent credits include A Christmas Story (Persephone Theatre) and Stag and Doe (Channel Theatre). He has worked with most professional theatres across the province, including Globe Theatre (Pride and Prejudice), and has a recurring role as Tanner on season two of The Feather News (APTN and APTN Lumi). He was nominated for a SK Arts Arts for Celebration Award for his work with I Have No Idea, and is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, SK Arts, Creative Saskatchewan, and the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts.

He is the founder of In The Headlights, a theatre company focused on creating and producing neurodivergent art. He has ADHD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and has spinal instrumentation related spondylolisthesis. He also has a seven-month old baby named Charlie who is the absolute cutest, smartest human to ever exist and who is really driving home the point that when you become a parent, you’re not just parenting the kiddo; you’re also parenting yourself.

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.

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.

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).