Tim is a Saskatoon-based actor, playwright, and sound designer who serves as the Artistic Associate for Burnt Thicket Theatre. You may also have seen Tim on the Saskatoon stages in productions such as THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING (25th Street Theatre)  MISS BENNETT: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, BOEING BOEING, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and ‘ART’ (Persephone), THE CURST, and THE FOURTH WISEMAN (Dancing Sky Theatre); LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Theatre Naught); CYMBELINE (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); EVERGREEN (Burnt Thicket), and in his one-person show MY LITTLE PLASTIC JESUS (Burnt Thicket). Tim lives in Saskatoon with his lovely wife, Amy, and their two very active kids.

Luke has been musical directing, arranging and composing for theatre and film for just shy of twenty years now. He has two musicals under his belt and several others that he has helped to develop -including this one! He has scored over 50 theatre productions across western Canada for theatres such as Rosebud Theatre, Pacific Theatre, The Arts Club, Midnight Theatre Collective, Burnt Thicket Theatre, The Canadian Badlands Passion Play, Prime Stock Theatre, Chemainus Theatre, Gateway Theatre, and The Shakespeare Company. He has won one Jesse Richardson Theatre award, been nominated for two more, as well as an AMPIA. Luke lives on a small acreage near Millet, Alberta with his wife, two kids, two dogs, three cats, a fluctuating amount of chickens...and one recording studio. luke would like to thank everyone who has helped music become his life's work.

Kenni Chomyn (she/her) hails from Dalmeny, SK and grew up training in dance and theatre with Sask Express - Saskatoon before she moved to study at Randolph College for the Performing Arts in Toronto, followed by obtaining her Masters of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre at Guildford School of Acting in England. She has taught dance classes from Saskatoon all the way to Shanghai, China. This past year, you could find Kenni dancing with the Rider Cheer Team and Rush Electric Crew. Kenni is so thrilled to be back home in Saskatoon and would like to thank her family and friends for their continued support, near and far. Past credits: Atina/Ariel u/s in The Little Mermaid (Persephone Theatre), Girl 3 in Typecastress (Little Libertine Playhouse Inc.), Devyn in Home: The Musical (Lane Productions), Kathy/Dancer in 9 to 5 (Saskatoon Summer Players), Vivika Orsonwelles in A Killer Party (Sparrow Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Camberley Theatre), Nuna in The Country of the Blind (World Premiere Cast) (Guildford School of Acting).

Nathan Coppens (he/him) is a Mad/Crip actor/musician/playwright/puppeteer/arts educator. In a career spanning nearly twenty years, and five provinces, he has worked with Listen To Dis’, Wide Open Theatre, Dancing Sky Theatre, Globe Theatre, Souris Valley Theatre, the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre, Dumbax Productions, Persephone Theatre, Live Five, and many others. He feels at peace being in the room with the folx in this project. Nathan is the founder of In The Headlights, and the playwright/songwriter/co-star of I Have No Idea, a play that uses comedy and music to explore ADHD in adults. It recently had a run with Live Five and, due to demand, will be back at the Refinery in September prior to going on tour. Tickets on sale soon through On The Boards. To get all the updates, follow along on Instagram @intheheadlightsyxe and Facebook @ In The Headlights YXE.

Sienna Holden (she/her) is thrilled to be working with Burnt Thicket Theatre on developing her new musical "Breathe". Originally an actor with credits including: She Has a Name, The Secret Garden, Brilliant Traces, and Songs for a New World, she is excited to be on the writing side! She is so grateful to each and every person who has come out to experience "Breathe" in its current form and invites everyone to participate in feedback after the reading!

Kevin Moxley (he/him) is an actor, educator, and writer, originally from the southern Appalachia region of the United States. He completed his undergraduate studies at New York University, and his MFA in theatre performance at Florida Atlantic University. Kevin recently performed locally in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley at Persephone Theatre. Other past stage highlights include Shakespeare In Love (Austin Playhouse), The Wizard of Oz (Zilker Theatre Productions), Cabaret, Spamalot (Asheville Theatre), Die Fledermaus (Asheville Lyric Opera), Sister Act, Urinetown (Festival Repertory), and The Jungle Book (Missoula Children’s Theatre). Kevin is grateful to be living and working on Treaty 6 Territory, and making a home in Saskatoon.

Dr. Sofia Mycyk has performed as soloist with orchestras in Canada, the United States and most recently with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra. She has been featured at the Landowska Harpsichord Society in Chicago, Thursday Musical recital series in Minneapolis, the Lyell Gustin Recital Series, and the Ritornello Chamber Music Festival. Performance highlights include the Lakes Area Music Festival, PianoFest in the Hamptons, as well as a performance of Colin McPhee’s Piano Concerto in Ted Mann Concert Hall, as winner of the University of Minnesota concerto competition. Her first album, titled Hutsulian Watercolours, features solo piano music by Ukrainian composers. Recently Sofia was featured in a three-part Performance Series at the Remai Modern. Last summer Sofia performed with soprano Emma Johnson for the Saskatoon Proms series, presented by the Saskatoon Opera. In a live-streamed recital “Ukrainian Art Song on a Starlit Night”, she performed with soprano Katya Khartova, also presented by the Saskatoon Opera. Last year Sofia joined local musicians to perform new works in the Strata Festival of New Music. In further collaboration with local arts organizations, Sofia taught a series of online lectures titled ‘On Bach’s Time - His Life in Music’ presented by the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Mycyk earned her degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota where she held a Teaching Assistantship in Collaborative Piano. Last year she served as a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Saskatchewan. Sofia resides in Saskatoon; teaching, performing and collaborating.

Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturg who works across Turtle Island. Her works include the play The Unplugging, the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit, the short play-for-film Katharsis, the VR pieceReconciling for Boca del Lupo. She co-created, with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight, the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt, about relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. In the past year, she directed The First Stone at New Harlem and GCTC in Toronto and Ottawa, Women of the Fur Trade at Stratford Festival, and The Flood at Imago and Mizushōbai at Tableau d’Hote, both in Montreal. In the fall, her new play Jordan will premiere at Geordie Theatre in Montreal. From 2003-2011, she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts, Canada’s oldest professional Indigenous theatre company. Her book, Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015. 

Amanda Trapp (she/they) is a Cree and Saulteaux (member of White Bear First Nations)/settler actor
& composer based in Saskatoon, SK. Select acting credits: The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly
Warfare (Catalyst Theatre); Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Herd, It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, I Lost My Husband (Persephone Theatre); Art of War (Hardly Art Theatre); Half-Breed Vaudeville, (Sorry/Grateful Theatre). Amanda has a Bachelor in Music Theatre Performance from Sheridan College, studied puppetry at the Banff Centre, and also studied acting in NYC with the Atlantic Theater Company. “Thanks to Sienna, Luke, Yvette and everyone at Burnt Thicket for trusting me with Breathe. This story is near and dear to so many of us - I’m excited to have been a part of its journey.” 

Stephen is grateful to work as a theatre artist and A.D. of Burnt Thicket Theatre. Directing credits include BTT’s Every Brilliant Thing, Evergreen, We Are the Body, and the national tour of She Has a Name. Acting credits include The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Persephone), Road to Mecca, Tent Meeting, Queen Milli Of Galt (Rosebud Theatre), Chickens, The Clearing (Pacific Theatre), and the role of Jesus in The Canadian Badlands Passion Play. He recently wrote Land, an audio play for BTT’s fiction podcast We Treaty People. Stephen has a masters in fine arts and theology from Regent College and a BFA in drama from U. of Calgary. He is most proud of his daughter and two sons, and sends loud thanks to Kirsten, his spouse and best friend.