Ange is an interdisciplinary performing artist and initiator from Kahnawake Kanienkehaka Territory, working in Toronto. She is an ardent collaborator, consultant, facilitator and mentor working in storyweaving, arts based research, wearable sculpture and Haudenosaunee history. Ange is also a vocalist with the Juno and Polaris nominated band YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN.

Ange works within the community, art, and education sectors as a speaker, co-creator and advisory member. Ange is Associate Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre, where she directs the Talking Treaties initiative and has co-facilitated Art Fare Essentials since 2013. She has conducted workshops on Indigenous symbols of agreement making with staff of the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Arts Council, Black Creek Pioneer Village, and the Toronto Biennial of Art. Ange has had the pleasure of speaking on art based research, spectacle making, and community collaboration in university courses and panels across Canada. She worked with the City of Toronto on the creation of the Indigenous Arts and Culture Partnerships Fund (2018) and on the Advisory Council for the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019), where she wrote the Toronto Indigenous Context Brief for the inaugural curatorial team.

Cat considers herself very lucky to be a CIT faculty member and has been since 2010. She is an assistant voice teacher to Lisa Cromarty and she also offers one-on-one singing lessons. She holds a degree from Vancouver’s Studio 58 Acting Conservatory and an MFA in Acting with a Diploma in teaching Voice from York University. Cat spends time writing and performing live music as Cat and The Queen, teaching music at a Toronto Montessori school and currently she is in production of her kids tv show pilot, “The Cat in Space Show”. Check her out at catandthequeen.ca for more.

Ed’s various activities as a theatre practitioner include directing, writing, devising, dramaturgy, acting, teaching, lecturing, and producing. He has been the recipient of numerous nominations and awards including: The Pauline McGibbon Award for Directing, Dora Award for Outstanding Direction (Including five Dora nominations for Outstanding Direction) Three Dora Awards for Outstanding Productions (Including four Dora nominations for Outstanding Productions), Chalmers Play writing Award (Including two nominations), As an actor Ed was nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding Performance in Video Cabarets' The Life and Times of Mackenzie King. His is also the proud recipient of Toronto’s Harold Alternative Theatre Award. His productions and plays have been produced and toured extensively throughout Canada, the United States, England, and Japan.

An honours graduate from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1986, Gabriella has been creating and collaborating in community-based arts projects, designing set, costume, mask and props for theatre. She is a Dora Nominated artist and has designed for Debajehmujig Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Kahawi Dance Theatre, the Imaginative Film Festival Gala, "Sovereign Alliances" and "The Road", written and directed by Herbie Barnes, and "Wisakedjak" written by Paula Sherman and Alanis King, who also co-directed w Alexandro Ronceria. – Mazinaw Rocks. At CIT, Caruso is a design instructor and has co-created the First Year Mentorship Program in Theatre Design. She has also co-designed set, costume, props and mask for CIT’s Showcases and Year End Shows since 2004.

Jane is a sought-after instructor of Improvisation and Theatre with over 30 years of performing and teaching the craft. She has taught at Young People’s Theatre, Bad Dog Theatre, Second City Training Centre, Toronto Academy of Acting for Film and Television and the ACT II program at Ryerson. Jane was part of a pilot program with Jani Lauzon and Julia Aplin in their premiere Ensemble Training for Centre for Indigenous Theatre.

Jane has performed on stages all across Canada as well as for film, television and new media. Selected film and tv credits include Kim’s Convenience, Anne With an E, Save Me, Murdoch Mysteries, Billable Hours, Blood and Water, Saw lll, and Netflix series, Spinning Out.

Jane’s stage credits include Hands Down! by Warren P. Sonoda (Toronto Fringe), Tragedie of Lear, Kim’s Convenience (Soulpepper Western Canada Tour), World Improv Championships (Just For Laughs). Jane produced Comedy on the Danforth and Kittens of Comedy for many years. Jane is a four-time nominee for the Canadian Comedy Awards for Funniest Female Improvisor and recipient of a Dora and Chalmers Award for Best Youth Script.

Directing Credits Include: The Bald Soprano (Dora Award for Outstanding Direction), The Chairs, Loot, Black Comedy, The Real Inspector Hound, What the Butler Saw (Soulpepper Theatre); No Exit, The Human Voice, The Elephant Song (Stratford Festival); Fronteras Americanas (Soulpepper/Tarragon Theatre/Vancouver Playhouse/M.T.C./The Festival Des Amerique); The Sisters Rosensweig (Harold Green Theatre); 7 Stories (Neptune Theatre); Proof (Centaur Theatre); La ira de Ernesto y Ernestina (Havana International Theatre Festival); Having Hope at Home (Theatre Aquarius); The Hobbit (Y.P.T.); A Year with Frog and Toad (M.T.Y.P/Citadel Theatre); Dib and Dob (Roseneath Theatre); Derailed (Stiletto Company/Factory Theatre) Dora Nomination Outstanding Direction.Acting Credits Include: Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dora Award Nomination for Best Actor); Pozzo in Waiting for Godot (Centaur Theatre);Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (Canadian Stage); Nagg in Endgame (Soulpepper Theatre); Berkley in Possible Worlds (Theatre Passe Muraill/National Arts Centre/Neptune Theatre). Teaching Credits Include: University of Windsor; George Brown Theatre School; York University; Humber College; University of Toronto; Equity Showcase; Theatre Ontario; Waterloo University; University of Guelph and seven years with The Centre for Indigenous Theatre.

Julia is a collaborative interdisciplinary artist with a foundation in movement and dance. She has created work for rivers, boxing rings, theatres and cyberspace. Her synchro duet for kiddie pools won her the Dusk Dances Audience choice Award. She has created performance work with the poetry of Lorna Crozier, the story telling of Tom Allen and verbatim text with #7Love. From string quartets to brass bands, Julia creates new work with musicians and continues to teach and mentor collaboration across Canada. She was a resident artist at the LIVElab exploring the intersection of art, science and technology with Double Pendulum Collective and McMaster University scientists.

Lisa is an Anishnaabe/Oji-Cree actor from Wikwemikoong Unceded Territory located on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. She is an alumni of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre’s three-year acting program and Canada’s National Voice Intensive. She also has served as a voice coach trainee with the National Theatre School as well as the Stratford Theatre Festival for two seasons and was contracted to join as a voice coach for the 2020 Festival Season before COVID-19.

Theatre: The Unnatural and Accidental Women (National Arts Centre), Misdemeanor Dream (Spiderwoman Theatre), Moose on the Loose (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Honour Story (Debajehmujig Theatre Company).

TV/Film: Wild Indian (Cinereach), Unsettled (APTN), Burden of Truth (CBC), The Silencing (Anova Pictures), IT: Chapter 2 (Third Act Productions), The Handmaid’s Tale (Gilead 3 Productions Inc.), My Roommate's an Escort (Katie Chats Inc.), Grand Army (Dutiful Productions ULC), Indian Horse (Screen Sirens Films).

Voiceover: Antlers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

(Kuna/Rappahannock) is a choreographer, director and actor. She is a founding member and Artistic Director of Spiderwoman Theater, the longest running Indigenous women’s theater company in North America. Muriel has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Miami University in Ohio, is a member of the National Theatre Conference and a 2015 recipient of the Rauschenberg Residency. She is the Program Director for the Centre for Indigenous Theatre (CIT)'s Summer Intensive and is a faculty member for their full time program in Toronto. She is a pioneer in the development of a culturally based Indigenous performance methodology. She choreographed Throw Away Kids and She Knew She Was She for the Banff Centre's Aboriginal Dance Program; Directed More than Feathers and Beads with Murielle Borst Tarrant; The Scrubbing Project with Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble and Evening in Paris with Raven Spirit Dance Company. Acting: Performed off-Broadway in Lily’s Revenge; created the role of Philomena Moosetail in The Rez Sisters and Aunt Shadie in The Unnatural and Accidental Women; One woman shows Hot' N' Soft, Trail of the Otter and Red Mother. Her latest project is Material Witness, which explores personal and family stories of violence and the healing journeys of Indigenous women across Turtle Island.

(He/Him) is a Métis (Red River) and Jewish (Ashkenazi) artist and educator, who is focused on decolonizing his process by listening to and dialoguing with ancestral and cultural knowledge. His practice includes land-based creation, circular storytelling, and destabilizing hierarchical power structures in the rehearsal process, with a focus on anti-oppressive/anti-racist modalities. He is an MFA directing candidate at York University, the Associate Director of the Emerging Creators Unit at Buddies in Bad Times, an instructor at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, and the Residency Director and Designer for Gwaandak Theatre. As a theatre artist he has worked across Turtle Island as an actor, director, producer, clown and devisor. His most recent directing credits include: Adika Play Readings (Gwandaak Theatre) 365 Days/365 Plays (York University), Iphigenia 2.0 (York University) Weal ThyMan The Third (Nextfest), Doll and Oats (Play the Fool Festival), assistant directing Billy (Les Jours De Hurlement) (L’UniThéâtre), assistant directing Doll House (Studio Theatre) and directing The Skriker (ABBEDAM/U of A). As a performer he has worked most recently on Born Again Crow (Thumbs Up Good Work Theatre/Live Five), Slight of Mind (Theatre YES/Citadel Theatre), Hangwoman (U of A), The Listening Room (Cardiac Theatre) and Miserable Worm (Toronto Fringe Festival). He is a graduate of the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta.

Richard is a Mi'kmaq-Métis performer and instructor who recognizes his privilege. He is also the only Indigenous identifying certified Fight Instructor with Fight Directors Canada. Richard has performed on set with Disney/Lucas Films, Discovery Channel and CBC. He's helped workshop new Indigenous content with Stratford Festival, Shakespeare in the Ruff and Native Earth's Weesageechak Festival. Selected fight direction credits include "This Is How We Got Here" (Native Earth), "A Christmas Story" (Lower Ossington Theatre), and "Macbeth" (Laurentian University). Richard is beyond thrilled to join the incredible staff at CIT.

Joe has worked for Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, Lion’s Gate, Showtime, Lifetime, Alliance, Canadian Film Centre, Fireworks Entertainment, Fox, CBC, Equity Showcase and The Factory Theatre (Toronto). He has appeared in more than 17 movies, 15 TV shows and 8 theatre productions; he’s also worked with Tom Berenger (True Blue), Tia Carrere (Relic Hunter), David Carradine (Kung Fu-The Legend Continues), Paul Gross (Due South), Troy Duffy (Boondock Saints 2 – All Saints Day) and David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch). Joe has toured with YPT (Young People’s Theatre) in Toronto and has also performed in casts of the longest running off-Broadway show Tony & Tina’s Wedding in Toronto, Baltimore and Las Vegas productions. He has filmed in Canada, United States, Italy, The Czech Republic and Thailand. Recently, Joe has embarked on expanding his acting career to include writing and directing. With his own production company, Film Warrior, Joe has written, produced and directed his first short film, Ciao Eh, which has toured short film festivals internationally.

Denise Bolduc has an extensive background as an artistic director, producer, coordinator, arts administrator, facilitator and presenter. With over 20 years experience in the arts and cultural sectors, she is recognized for her directorship of international, multi-disciplinary arts events & festivals. Notable projects include the establishing the first international contemporary arts festival, Planet IndigenUs; the Global Spirits Showcase, Copycamp and Aboriginal Voices...The Concert Series.

Recent activities include the Canadian tour liaison, Moana & the Tribe and producer of the Toronto premiere production of Kisageetin - A Cabaret by Tomson Highway. Bolduc is also recognized for her work as a multi-disciplinary Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council and as a Music & Dance Officer at the Canada Council for the Arts. She has worked in a number of positions with a multitude of organizations including Native Earth Performing Arts, the Aboriginal Music Project, the Association for Native Development in the Performing Arts, the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance, Cahoots Theatre, Thunderbird Centre, Crows Theatre, the Creators Rights Alliance, HOT DOCS, and many others. Bolduc has a background in audio production & engineering, theatre production and project development. She is a board member of REEL Canada, Forbes Wild Foods and the imagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival. She presently is in production on her first documentary film honouring the life and work of dancer and choreographer Rene Highway.

Based in Toronto, Alejandro Ronceria is of native heritage from Columbia. He is one of the founders of Chinook Winds Aboriginal Dance Program at The Banff Centre. Ronceria’s internationally acclaimed work explores Aboriginal themes and aesthetics. His own stage productions include The Jaguar Project and Ayahuasca Dreams, which have been presented at national venues such as the Canada Dance Festival and the Du Maurier World Stage Festival. His films have premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. Ronceria choreographed for the 1997 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards; was the artistic director for the Spirit in the Sun Festival in Phoenix, Arizona; choreographer for TRIBE, a musical in Minneapolis; and artistic director for the Gala Performance of Nunavut’s opening ceremony. His films have premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.

Marie Gaudet is Anishinaabe, Turtle Clan and a member of the Wikwemikong First Nation located on Manitoulin Island. She is a respected cultural leader, knowledge keeper, educator, creator, dancer, singer and hand drummer. She is an Indigenous language advocate and fluent in Anishinaabemowin. Marie is an educator with the Kapapamachakwew – Wandering Spirit School, a faculty member of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, and an educator at various community-based organizations. She has performed for numerous cultural events and artistic productions including as a featured singer at Biziindan!, Luminato 2019.