SKNHEAD

Shyanne Duquette is a mixed-Cree emerging multidisciplinary theatre artist based in Amiskwacî. A writer, director, actor, and arts facilitator, Shyanne is passionate about community-engaged processes and breaking down barriers to entry in the arts. Their work often explores themes of community, identity, and the things that set people’s teeth on edge.

Tara Beagan is a proud Ntlaka’pamux and Irish “Canadian” halfbreed. She is cofounder & codirector of ARTICLE 11 with Andy Moro. Nine of her 38 plays are published. One won a Dora Award. In 2020, Honour Beat won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama. In 2025 The Ministry of Grace did the same. Beagan was the 2020 laureate of the Siminovitch Prize for theatre, playwriting

Geoffrey Simon Brown is an award-winning Albertan theatre maker. He is a founding member of the Major Matt Mason Collective where he has produced small-scale independent theatre for the past fourteen years. He made his Found Festival debut back in 2015 performing his play, Air, in a very hot living room. Last year he did double duty, acting in Brick Shithouse (Fenceless Theatre/Found Festival) and searching for four-leaf clovers in End of Steel park. Other Edmonton credits include the premiere productions of his plays Michael Mysterious (Pyretic Productions) and Night (MMMC/Common Ground Arts Society), dramaturgy for Cycle (Thou Art Here), as well as performing in The Woman In Black, Deathtrap (Teatro LIVE!), Re:Construct (Donkey Dog Theatre), and Subscribe of Like (Workshop West). He directed the 2023 Fringe production of This Won’t Hurt, I Promise (Tiny Bear Jaws) for which he was nominated for a Sterling Award. His other plays include The Circle, Progress, Static, Still Still Still, and the most recent adaptation of A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. More at geoffreysimonbrown.com.

Colby Stockdale is an Indigenous photographer, dancer, sculptor and actor based in Amiskwacîwâskahikan. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting at the University of Alberta. Select acting credits include Civil Blood: A Treaty Story (Thou Art Here Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (University of Alberta), and The Winter’s Tale (University of Alberta).

Moses Kouyaté is a queer Afrikan performer raised in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. They hope to create art that may inspire the masses, and to allow audiences to discover things they’ve never seen before. As a great lover of theatre, music and dance, Moses is ever grateful to share the wonders of storytelling and collaboration with the beautiful Edmonton theatre community.

Maria Buffalo is a Prairie Femme Nêhiyaw iskwêw from Samson Cree Nation in Maskwacis. Located within Treaty 6 Territory along the Battle River, where she calls home.

She’s a multidisciplinary artist; bead worker, part time filmmaker, stage actor, model, and writer.

Currently, Maria works as a library coordinator at her library branch in Maskwacis.

She is also recently finished her first draft of her debut stage script ‘Kiyam-ing: A Band Office Drama’ with Workshop West’s Indigenous Playwriting Circle. And is working on her debut horror film “Mîhko: A Rez Gothic Vampire Story”

Aidan Laudersmith is an Alberta-based multidisciplinary performer, currently living in Amiskwaciwâskahikan, colonially known as Edmonton. He was born in Mohkinstsis, colonially known as Calgary. Select Theatre Credits include: The Noon Witch (Teatro Live!), Witch (Bleviss Laboratory Theatre), Indecent, Troilus and Cressida (Studio Theatre), The Oddballs Cabaret (The Oddballs), Tuck Everlasting (Nuova Vocal Arts) & What Was Is All (Walters & Watt).

My name is Neyewac Mostos, or Buffalo Up High, also known as Taylor Bull. I am a Scottish, Polish, and Plains Cree man from the Louis Bull Tribe. I am also an athlete, singer/songwriter, entrepreneur, and aspiring actor that was raised in central Alberta, Canada. 

Tom Tunski is an actor, producer, and arts facilitator based in Amiskwaciy-Wâskahikan. He has spent the past few years championing local artists through his publication EGO (Edmonton Goes Off) and by helping to create inclusive, accessible spaces at venues across the city.

Before stepping away from acting, Tom performed as Jeremy in the play Michael Mysterious. Now, after some time away from the stage, he’s excited to return as part of the team to bring you Sknhead.