Mara Teare is a Saskatoon raised actor, singer, writer, and creator. She is a recent graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s acting program. Through her art and work, Mara strives to create and be a part of spaces with a strong presence of marginalized voices. Just as theatre has given her a voice, she wishes to inspire and uplift others like her through the power of theatre. She is excited to begin her journey as an emerging playwright with sad girls watch The Princess Bride. Mara firmly believes in theatre being a safe meeting space for all, and she hopes to bring the community around her closer together in joy and love through her writing. She is so excited to be a part of SUM Theatre’s First Monday collective. She hopes you enjoy the reading and you receive whatever you might need from the piece.

Erin Brophy (She/ They) holds a BFA Honours in Acting from the University of Saskatchewan, and works as an actor, playwright, theatre educator, stunt performer, actor combatant, and fight and intimacy director. Erin is a member of Fight Directors’ Canada and The International Order of the Sword and the Pen, and additionally has trained with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (formally Intimacy Directors International), the National Society of Intimacy Professionals, and Principal Intimacy Professionals. Currently Erin is working on an honours degree in Women’s and Gender Studies with a minor in English, and because they don’t back down from a challenge, will be starting their Masters in September. Past acting credits include Shortcuts Festival 2021 (Hardly Art Theatre), The Beaux’ Stratagem, Bronte, Spirit Wrestler (Greystone Theatre), Crowsworld: The First (Myriad Productions), The Unforgettables (Fight or Flight Theatre). Erin wrote The Unforgettables in 2019, presented it at the 2021 Saskatoon Fringe, and looks forward to bringing The Unforgettables to Live Five in February. Intergenerational—their first play designed specifically for teenage audiences, was written as part of the 2021 Persephone Theatre TYA Playwrights’ Unit. Past fight/intimacy direction credits include Rock of Ages (Broadway North Theatre Company), Carmen (Saskatoon Opera), L’Auberge(Fully Productions), 9 to 5: The Musical (Saskatoon Summer Players) Little Women (St. Joseph High School), Flush, Will and Ernest, Scapin (La Troupe du Jour), The Three Musketeers (Odyssey Productions). Erin is grateful for a community that works to cultivate the arts, and for the opportunity to live and work on Treaty Six territory.

An award-winning actor, Jenna holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Saskatchewan. They work as a playwright, actor and graphic designer.  Recent credits include J. Caesar, Midsummer, Titus. A puppet revenge, Merry Wives of Windsor, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan), I and You (Globe Theatre), Jack and the Snow Queen (Dancing Sky Theatre), The Penelopiad (Ferre Play), The Wolves (Live Five/Little Big/EvilStick) and Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island (Persephone Theatre). Their play 18 Jews Order Chinese Food premiered at the Short Cuts Festival last November as a 10 minute play and is now being extended to a full show.

Jennifer a Metis artist of the Treaty Six Territory is an actor, playwright, director and Artistic Director of the Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre. Starting with the company when it first opened its doors in 1999 with the Circle of Voices Program. Continuing her passion in the arts, Jennifer’s most recent work includes directing 3 audiobook projects with Penguin Random House Canada, her play Shadows among the Prairies had its world premier presented at the new SOTS site and shortly after debut directed at Persephone Theatres production Cottagers & Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor. Jennifer looks forward to what comes next!

Danielle Roy is a performer, playwright, producer, and director based in Martensville SK. She is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan Bachelor of Fine Arts Theatre Program, and the Globe Theatre Conservatory. Her playwriting credits include the 5-star smash hit Peach which toured across Canada in 2016. She is also the creator behind the “masterpiece” Metempsychosis which made its world premiere this summer in the 2022 Fringe Festival. Danielle is an active performer and writer for Saskatoon’s Sketch Comedy group The Sketchy Bandits and for Buttered Ghost, Dr. Frightful Presents: A Podcast. She is thrilled to be working with SUM Theatre to help her new play Luna meet its full potential. 

Storyteller • Poet • Radical • Mental Health Advocate • Truth Seeker • Elevator of Youth • Slayer of Mountains •The Dream of a Slave

Fanny fuses her previous experience as a social worker and lived experiences as a justice seeking human to express her artivism through means of poetry and storytelling. Fanny uses words to create spaces and stoke connections that start dialogues around generational healing through a poetic and dramaturgical entry point.

BFA in Acting U of S, MFA in Creative Writing UBC, Clare has been working in and around theatre for the past several decades.  A founding member of Live Five and has held various artist in residence positions around the province.  Clare loves to teach adults and kids alike and up until recently, she has spent nearly 8 years at the Saskatoon Public Library doing storytimes and puppet shows for Library goers. Clare lives in Saskatoon with her husband, two kids, three dogs and all her thoughts and insecurities.

Amanda Trapp (she/they) is a Cree and Saulteaux/Austrian artist, member of the White
Bear Band, who calls Saskatoon home. An actor and composer, selected credits include:
The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Catalyst Theatre; It's a Wonderful
Life: A Live Radio Play, Persephone Theatre; The Other Side of the River, Sum Theatre;
exempt, Native Earth Performing Arts; Lady Macbeth and the Not Quite Dead, Musical
TheatreWorks; The Penelopiad, Ferre Play Theatre (composer, SATA nominated).
Amanda is a graduate of Sheridan College with an Honours Bachelor in Music Theatre
Performance.

A neurodivergent Treaty 6 based theatre artist, Grahame can be found in many places in and around theatre; working as a performer, writer, producer, designer, voice artist, editor, dramaturg, foley artist, director and stage manager. Grahame is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with a BFA in Acting and a graduate of the Globe Theatre Conservatory. Grahame has been seen on stages across Canada and you may have seen his work at Live Five, Persephone Theatre, The Globe Theatre, Wide Open, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan and many more indie venues. Grahame is the Artistic Producer of Buttered Ghost Theatre, a Treaty 6 based company that produces new and exciting work. Grahame is an active member with The Sketchy Bandits sketch comedy group. If you like podcasts, check out Dr. Frightful Presents: A Podcast which is created, produced and curated by Grahame and created with a bundle of incredible talent. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.
Find out more at grahamekent.com

BFA in Acting U of S, MFA in Creative Writing UBC, Clare has been working in and around theatre for the past several decades.  A founding member of Live Five and has held various artist in residence positions around the province.  Clare loves to teach adults and kids alike and up until recently, she has spent nearly 8 years at the Saskatoon Public Library doing storytimes and puppet shows for Library goers. Clare lives in Saskatoon with her husband, two kids, three dogs and all her thoughts and insecurities.

Jennifer Lyn Squires (she / her) is a theatre artist from and living in Oskana. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in Theatre Studies from the University of Regina. Select credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Velveteen Rabbit, and Leading Ladies (director); Into the Woods, Nunsense II (Regina Summer Stage, stage manager); Peter Pan (Do It With Class, Tinkerbell). She also wrote and performed Jen is Fat for the 2021 TicTocTen festival. Jennifer can usually be found championing Saskatchewanians in both of her day jobs: as the Creative and Operations Director at the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre and manager of Handmade Saskatchewan. Jennifer is unabashedly neurodivergent, both thriving and struggling with combined hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive ADHD. Since January 2021, Jennifer has been fostering cats for Regina Cat Rescue. She is currently fostering her 5th cat, a big tuxedo boi named Alfred. Jennifer plays a lot of board games, is a fat advocate, and devours as much true crime as possible.

Liz Whitbread (she/her) is a queer actor, singer and theatre creator born and raised on Treaty One in what is now known as Winnipeg, Manitoba. She graduated from the University of Winnipeg with a BA: Honours in Theatre, and since then she's been working on pursuing a creative career that aligns with her personal values and, very importantly, brings her joy. She's delighted to be expanding her creative practice and exploring dramaturgy with the wonderful Sum Theatre team. Favourite acting credits include ‘Heathers: The Musical’ (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); ‘It’s A Beautiful Day to Arrest the Cops That Killed Breonna Taylor (Afterlife Theatre) and ‘Women of the Fur Trade’ (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). 

Kody (he/him) is an emerging theatre artist from Saskatoon who graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a BFA in Drama. Recently he has expanded his experience to include stage, film, voice-over, and streaming credits. Video credits include Ready To Be Brave (perf. Jeffery Straker, dir. Dylan Hyrciuk) and Save Me (perf. Eden Paige, dir. Dylan Hyrciuk). Stage credits include Coriolanus (Shakespeare by the Sea), The Skiffle Disco Soul Circus (Fringe Festival), Delft Blue (Burnt Thicket Theatre) Rooftops (Drama Student’s Association), The Romeo Project (The Studio), Machinal, Henry V, Arcadia, Spirit Wrestler, and The Beaux’ Stratagem (Greystone Theatre). 

Since completing the Globe Theatre's conservatory program in 2008, Mark has worked and played as an actor, director, producer, and writer of theatre on various stages across Treaty Four and Six territories. He recently produced and performed in Ekstatika Stage & Screen's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Regina. Mark currently serves as executive director of the Saskatchewan Association of Theatre Professionals.

Paige Francoeur (she/they) is an emerging actor, playwright, and dramaturg born and raised on Treaty 6 Territory. Recently, they have had the pleasure of appearing in Theatre Howl's The Love Interest, 25th Street Theatre / Ferre Play's Breaking The Curse, and are currently working on Theatre Naught's Long Day's Journey Into Night. She is also a co-creator on a brand-new adaptation of All's Well That Ends Well through their newly-formed theatre company, the Hagstone Collective. Paige is a lover of cats, mob movie enthusiast, and will talk your ear off about gothic horror if you let her. Coming up for Paige: Measure for Measure through Live Five. www.paigefrancoeur.com/

Tim is a Saskatoon-based actor, playwright, and sound designer, serving as the Artistic Associate for Burnt Thicket Theatre. With a broad range of training and experience in both theatre and theology, Tim is committed to telling stories that help us make sense of life. Recent acting credits include the role of Guildenstern in ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, and Robert in BOEING BOEING (Persephone Theatre); THE FOURTH WISEMAN (Dancing Sky); CYMBELINE (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan). Recent sound design credits include work on CYMBELINE, Burnt Thicket’s production of EVERY BRILLIANT THING, and the audio drama podcast series WE TREATY PEOPLE.