HOT GARBAGE

Originally from Massachusett and Wampanoag land, colonially known as Boston, Massachusetts, Emilia is a first-generation settler on Treaty 6 territory. She got her big break in elementary school, performing basketball tricks at halftime shows for organizations like the Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, and Harlem Globetrotters. Nowadays, Emilia is a performer, puppeteer, educator, multi-instrumentalist, and proud founding member of Boston’s Fork & Shoe Theatre Cooperative and the band pUbeRtykiDs. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre Practice at the University of Alberta.

Harper Oud (she/her) warps theatre, noise, and pigment into queer portals for outlaw emotions, transmitting from amiskwaciwâskahikan to anyone tuned into the frequency.

Jan McCarthy (he/him) is a Deaf Queer man residing in amiskwacîwâskahikan in the city currently known as Edmonton. He is a writer, ASL coach/instructor, and actor. He has been involved with several productions, including 9 Parts of Desire (The Maggie Tree), Children of the Lesser God (Walterdale Playhouse), After Faust (The Invisible Practice) and Alphabet Line (Prairie Strange Productions). He was a hairstylist and makeup artist and has always veered close to the stage but never quite found his niche. Now that Deaf arts in Canada is growing and becoming increasingly more sustainable, he is excited to support and nurture his creative peers along with the up and coming generations of Deaf artists.

Gordie Lucius is an award-winning comedian, writer, and co-creator/host of the wild and out-there comedic natural history series Frick, I Love Nature. The series has amassed over 150,000 followers and over 100,000,000 views on their videos over social media!! Other than being a cheeky lil nature host, Gordie was a finalist of the National Screen Institute’s 2020 Totally Television Program and is an alumni of the Corus Writer’s Apprenticeship program where he had the pleasure to work on CBC’s Run The Burbs. Gordie is profoundly multifaceted in the world of film and has worked in many departments including, the art department, the production team, and even performs a ton in front of the camera.

Rhiannon is a full time multi-disciplinary theatre artist based in Edmonton. She wears many hats including actor, technician, stage manager, burlesque dancer, improviser, emcee, and clown. She has previously graduated from the Keyano College Visual and Performing Arts program and MacEwan University’s Theatre Production program. Rhiannon has a passion for local indie theatre, collective creation and any activity that allows her to make stupid jokes with her friends.

Lindsey Walker (she/her) is an award-winning Edmonton-based powerhouse musician best known for her commanding vocal presence and vulnerable charming stage banter. Lindsey’s haunting yet arousing vocals draw on the doom-pop sensibilities of Kimbra; the rocking charisma of Heart; and the meticulous orchestration of St. Vincent. With the award-winning album, “this desolate bliss.” under her belt, Lindsey’s forthcoming release, “Something Good”, is a trio of moody, anthemic tracks that’ll make you want to grab your lover and run full-tilt into the darkness. When she’s not wooing audiences with her live performance, Lindsey is a sound designer and composer with multiple theatre credits to her name, working for many indie theatre companies in Edmonton. Lindsey’s also a very, very funny lady who entertains audiences as a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe Sketchy Broads and a principal player on the improv soap opera “Die-Nasty!”.

Connor is the founder and artistic director of The Invisible Practice, a Deaf arts collective based in amiskwacîwâskahikan. He is a producer, performer, and playwright. His first two major original productions, After Faust and CARBON MOVEMENTS, both premiered in Edmonton in 2023 after several years of development, and a third show is in the works. He has nurtured a lifelong passion for theatre and accessibility, and relentlessly explores the relationships between Deaf/Disability experience, art, politics, therapy, and advocacy, with a constant eye toward the collective liberation of all intersectional human beings.

Connor is a certified Access Activator through Tangled Art+Disability’s training program. While he also happens to hold degrees and diplomas from both University of Alberta and MacEwan University, these institutions have demonstrated complicity and aggression in colonial and genocidal projects. He no longer claims identity with these institutions until there is sufficient systemic change toward collective liberation.

Corben Kushneryk is a multidisciplinary artist based in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Treaty 6/Métis territory) and he is thrilled to return to Found for the first time in a decade! He is a proud graduate of the U of A’s BFA in Drama (Acting) Program & holds a Theatre Arts Diploma from MacEwan. A Queer Métis creative, his eclectic body of work can be seen on screens and stages across the country.
Corben has performed with the Citadel Theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Vancouver Arts Club & Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. He has also played with several Edmonton companies, like Concrete Theatre, Toy Guns Dance Theatre, Teatro Live!, Wildside Productions, Kill Your Television & Whizgiggling Productions.
Corben is the founder of Impossible Mongoose, a multi-award-winning indie company focused on unearthing new stories. Notable productions include The Alien Baby Play, 35MM & Coraline, as well as Harold and Vivian Entertain Guests, The Fall of the House of Atreus: A Cowboy Love Song & Prophecy.
He previously served three seasons as Co-Artistic Director of Concrete Theatre where he mounted new & diverse issue-based theatre for young audiences. Directing highlights include ARC: Anti-Racism & Change, CTRL-ALT-DEL (Sterling Award for Outstanding Production for Young Audiences), the 20th Anniversary of Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids and Sprouts: Digital.
Other notable directing works include: Razia’s Shadow, Working: A Musical (Citadel Young Company), Never, Never (Promise Productions/Found Festival) & You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown! (GPLT).

Deviani Andrea (she/her) is a dance artist based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Edmonton. Originally from Mexico City, she holds a BA in Literature from the University of Mexico and studied at the Mexico City’s Dance School and Ema Pulido’s Dance Studio. Since landing in Canada, Deviani has worked as performer, instructor, and choreographer with many local dance and theatre companies such as the Citadel Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Skirts Afire, Mile Zero Dance, Fringe Festival, Found Festival, Alberta Musical Theatre Company, among others. She has tour both in Mexico with the National Folk Company and in Canada as an independent dancer and joined the Good Women Dance Collective (Edmonton) in 2022.

She is certified in Trauma Informed Care and as a Kaeja Elevations teacher; has trained at La Infinita Compañia (Mexico City), Decidedly Jazz Dance (Calgary), and her independent work has been kindly supported by the Edmonton Arts Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and The CanDance Network. 

With a strong sense of community and social justice, Deviani works to advance the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. She also fosters decolonization of spaces and champions Indigenous teachings. 

Catch her on Instagram at @deviani.andrea

ᐋᐧᐸᓇᒐᐦᑯᐢ (Crystal Wolfe) is an Indigenous Deaf artist, interpreter, educator, and advocate. She was involved in the advocacy effort for Bill C-91 (An Act Respecting Indigenous Languages), which was led by the B.C. Hummingbird Society of the Deaf and which received royal assent in 2019. She has long defended the rights of the Deaf Indigenous community so that they can access traditional ceremony, participate in cultural duties, and create safer spaces in the wider community.

Crystal aims to spotlight Indigenous Deaf and their accomplishments across the country, help address and resolve ongoing oppressions within our communities, and elevate them as a source of pride for themselves and everyone around them. She records stories and leads ceremonies at various Deaf artistic events, including the annual SOUND OFF Deaf Theatre Festival. She has also performed as a Deaf interpreter in several productions, such as all these things collide inside of me (Good Women Dance/Wild Mint Arts).

Crystal is part of the Nehiyaw and Niitsitapi-Blackfoot Confederacy. She lives and works on Treaty 6 land and is also a member of Neyaskweyaw (Ermineskin) Band of Maskwacis. She is fluent in Plain Indian Sign Language, Nehiyawi ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐃᐧ, and loves writing in Cree, travelling, and spending time with her nôsisimak.

​​Theresa Cutknife (she/her) is an Alberta-born, Toronto-based actor, writer, and storyteller of Nêhiyaw and Puerto Rican descent, and a proud member of the Samson Cree Nation in Maskwacîs, Alberta, situated in Treaty 6 Territory. She is an alumna of The Centre for Indigenous Theatre, the 2023 Soulpepper Academy, and most recently the 2024 CBC/CFC Actors Conservatory. Theresa splits her time working professionally in theatre and tv/film industries alongside her independent writing and producing practices. Her co-written play Talk Treaty To Me received two Sterling Award nominations for Outstanding Fringe Ensemble and Outstanding Fringe New Work at the 2023 Edmonton Fringe Festival. Theresa is passionate about creating stories that honour her cultural heritage and resonate across communities.

Biboye Onanuga is a drummer, composer, and educator based in Edmonton, known for his rhythmic curiosity and collaborative spirit. His work spans jazz, hip-hop, and experimental music—but you’re just as likely to find him behind the kit with folk and pop acts, or in the pit with your favourite theatre company. He’s known for the music series’
[REJAZZ] (reimagining hip-hop through jazz with his band Good Information), Daze Days (his new Sunday night series at MiMi Bar), and New Standards (a weekly improvisation-driven show and jam at The Common).

Biboye has spent years building accessible music programming and now freelances full-time. He recently served as the 2024–25 Musician in Residence at the Edmonton Public Library. He loves a good creative constraint—especially when it comes with a deadline and a team of co-conspirators.