Joel Bernbaum is an actor, director, playwright, journalist, and the founding artistic director of Sum Theatre. Born and raised in Saskatoon, Joel is the only child of a Buddhist mother and Jewish father. He is a graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts and Carleton University, where he did his master's thesis on verbatim theatre's relationship to journalism. With Sum Theatre, Joel created Saskatchewan's first free professional live Theatre in the Park.
To date, over 50, 000 people have participated in Sum Theatre's work. Joel's produced plays include Operation Big Rock, My Rabbi (with Kayvon Khoshkam), Home Is a Beautiful Word, and Being Here: The Refugee Project. Joel is currently an interdisciplinary Ph. D. student at the University of Saskatchewan, investigating the potential of theatre to strengthen cities. He is grateful to be the first Urjo Kareda Resident from Saskatchewan and the first Pierre Eilliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar from the University of Saskatchewan.
Joel lives in Saskatoon with his six-year-old son, Judah. Lancelot Knight is a Plains Cree singer-songwriter from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He has toured in Germany, travelled to New Zealand, and across North America. Spanning genres and all forms of artistry, he also plays guitar for his father's band Chester Knight and the Wind, and has toured with Joey Stylez. Lancelot Knight recently co-created the play Reasonable Doubt. Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director, and dramaturg who works across Turtle Island.
Her works include the plays Annie Mae's Movement, The Unplugging, The Diviners (with Vern Thiessen), Reasonable Doubt (with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight), the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit, and the short film A Common Experience (with Shane Belcourt). From 2003 to 2011 she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts. Her book Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada, was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015, and Performing Indigeneity (co-edited with Ric Knowles) in 2016. Maria Campbell is a Métis writer, playwright, filmmaker, scholar, teacher, community organizer, activist, and elder.
Halfbreed is regarded as a foundational work of Indigenous literature in Canada. She has authored several other books and plays, and has directed and written scripts for a number of films. She has also worked with Indigenous youth in community theatre and advocated for the hiring and recognition of Indigenous people in the arts. She has mentored many Indigenous artists during her career, established shelters for Indigenous women and children, and run a writers' camp at the national historical site at Batoche, where every summer she produces commemorative events on the anniversary of the battle of the 1885 North-West Resistance.
Maria Campbell is an officer of the Order of Canada and holds five honorary doctorates.
To date, over 50, 000 people have participated in Sum Theatre's work. Joel's produced plays include Operation Big Rock, My Rabbi (with Kayvon Khoshkam), Home Is a Beautiful Word, and Being Here: The Refugee Project. Joel is currently an interdisciplinary Ph. D. student at the University of Saskatchewan, investigating the potential of theatre to strengthen cities. He is grateful to be the first Urjo Kareda Resident from Saskatchewan and the first Pierre Eilliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar from the University of Saskatchewan.
Joel lives in Saskatoon with his six-year-old son, Judah. Lancelot Knight is a Plains Cree singer-songwriter from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He has toured in Germany, travelled to New Zealand, and across North America. Spanning genres and all forms of artistry, he also plays guitar for his father's band Chester Knight and the Wind, and has toured with Joey Stylez. Lancelot Knight recently co-created the play Reasonable Doubt. Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director, and dramaturg who works across Turtle Island.
Her works include the plays Annie Mae's Movement, The Unplugging, The Diviners (with Vern Thiessen), Reasonable Doubt (with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight), the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit, and the short film A Common Experience (with Shane Belcourt). From 2003 to 2011 she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts. Her book Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada, was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015, and Performing Indigeneity (co-edited with Ric Knowles) in 2016. Maria Campbell is a Métis writer, playwright, filmmaker, scholar, teacher, community organizer, activist, and elder.
Halfbreed is regarded as a foundational work of Indigenous literature in Canada. She has authored several other books and plays, and has directed and written scripts for a number of films. She has also worked with Indigenous youth in community theatre and advocated for the hiring and recognition of Indigenous people in the arts. She has mentored many Indigenous artists during her career, established shelters for Indigenous women and children, and run a writers' camp at the national historical site at Batoche, where every summer she produces commemorative events on the anniversary of the battle of the 1885 North-West Resistance.
Maria Campbell is an officer of the Order of Canada and holds five honorary doctorates.
