Artistic Associates
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Kris Alvarez
Kris Alvarez is a theatre artist, a Regina monologue. Kris has the privilege of relationship-building through creation & performance with like-spirited humans at Curtain Razors , Fadadance , Artesian, Heritage Community Association. At Common Weal Community Arts, Kris’ 2019 Respond to Racism residency humbled her theatre-making, inspiring Golden Potluck – project centered on diverse older women’s voices.
Kris tinkers with her practice alongside Curtain Razors performing ( Bad Blood , Carmen Angel ) and making work ( What Kind of Brown Are You?) Her current instalment, Burnt Sienna continues into 2021 after an adaptive 2019-20 series! Just before the pandemic, Kris had life-inspiring experiences performing in Persephone Theatre’s Reasonable Doubt.
At the end of 2020, Kris happily joined Globe Theatre’s ensemble for The Story . 2021 has Kris lucky to be in Agam Darshi’s film “Donkeyhead” and continuing relationships at Globe with a residency! This summer, “driving back up the 11”, she’ll join Sum Theatre’s Theatre in the Park
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Jayden Pfeifer
Jayden is a Regina-based independent theatre artist whose practice in performance, directing, improvisation, and new work creation has spanned more than 20 years. Jayden is an Artistic Associate with Curtain Razors, and has helped to create Curtain Razors performance and community-based projects since 2015.
Most recently, he has appeared as Tommy Douglas in Tommy and Père (Curtain Razors, 2025), Mr.Smee in Bad Hats Theatre’s Peter Pan (Globe Theatre, 2024), and co-directed Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion (Globe Theatre, 2023). He’ll next appear in The Master Plan for Globe Theatre (2025).
He holds a BFA and MFA from the University of Regina, and teaches for the UofR Theatre Department. As part of the collaborative trio Bundon Pfeifer Henderson, Jayden has been engaged in creating site-specific, multidisciplinary performance work since 2018, including many iterations of Untitled Peter Tripp Project (2019-present) and An anvil, a coil, a patterned ocean (2023-present).
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Johanna Bundon
Johanna has made robust contributions to the development of new work & creation processes in dance and theatre in Saskatchewan for over 15 years. Her capacity to embody ideas, and to create a generative space for new work to thrive has made her a sought-after collaborator by artists across disciplines.
Her choreography has been presented by New Dance Horizons, Globe Theatre, the National Arts Centre’s Prairie Scene Festival, the Prairie Dance Circuit, and across the country through ongoing experiments in live & digital performance with Bundon Pfeifer Henderson (Pi Theatre, Vancouver; PAVED Arts, Saskatoon; Struts Gallery, Sackville; Dunlop Art Gallery & Curtain Razors, Regina).
As a contemporary dancer, Johanna has performed work by Davida Monk, Connie Moker-Wernikowski, and Robin Poitras & Edward Poitras. Her own choreography SOLO SHOW TONIGHT recently toured to Magpie Festival in Edmonton (Summer 2024).
As an Artistic Associate of Curtain Razors, Johanna has been integral to the operations and vision of the company since 2016. She has led several company projects including: Community Office Hours (2021), Conversations for Love & Loss (2022), Trespassers Waltz (2020), and Getting to Room Temperature by Arthur Milner (2022)
Bundon is a graduate of LADMMI: Les Ateliers de Danse Moderne de Montreal (2005), San Diego 4 Feldenkrais Professional Training Program (2020), Globe Theatre’s Actor Conservatory (2008), and has a BA in Arts & Culture from the University of Regina (2013).
An active arts advocate with a special interest in artist-parenthood, peer mentorship, Joh is interested in better standards of practice for independent artists making work in Saskatchewan.
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Terri Fidelak
Terri Fidelak is an intermedia artist and arts organizer. She is intrigued by what is often easily overlooked - endemic flora, geological evidence of glacial passage, and the ephemera of lived experience. Through performance, social practice, drawing, and sculpture, she questions how attention and value are interconnected and uncovers ways that objects, people and environments converge to resonate with unexpected meaning.
Terri has been an Artistic Associate with Curtain Razors Theatre since 2016, and this experience has shaped her interest in cultivating a dynamic and inclusive arts ecology. Collaboration is a staple of her creative practice and she has joined forces with numerous artists and community art initiatives over the years, including with the Dunlop Art Gallery, Common Weal Community Arts, and Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre, to name a few. She has also participated in various artist residencies, such as Medalta International Artist Residency (AB), White Rabbit Arts (NS), and Signal Fire Arts (Oregon).
As an indication of her broad creative pursuits, her illustration and design work was nominated for a 2020 JUNO Award for Album Artwork of the Year. Her work is among the Saskatchewan Arts Board’s Permanent Collection as well as private collections in Canada, the US, and Japan. Fidelak lives and works on Treaty 4 Territory in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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Joey Tremblay
Joey is an auteur-director, playwright, theatre-maker and actor. He grew up in South East Saskatchewan in a hamlet called, Ste. Marthe. He received a B.F.A. in Drama from the University of Regina (1987) and a Diploma from the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School (1989). After working several years as a freelance actor, Joey co-founded Noises in the Attic, a theatre company mandated to produce and create new Canadian plays on the fringe festival circuit across Canada. From 1996 to 2001, Tremblay was the Artistic Co-Director of Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton. During this period, he wrote, devised, co-directed and produced as many as fifteen performance events and full-length scripts that toured across Canada, Great Britain and Australia.
Tremblay was a member of the English Theatre Ensemble at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa for 4 years. In essence, all of his work in theatre has been predominantly in the sector of new play development. However, the process in which he has tackled each new project has varied immensely – from non-linear, interactive, environmental installations to more linear, narrative scripts, where his involvement arguably began as a traditional playwright. Many projects, began as translations of classic work and then through re-writes and rehearsal, they evolved into hybrid interpretations that were far from their original sources.
Combined, this work has garnered over thirty awards and nominations for outstanding direction, production and acting, including two Scotsman Fringe First awards for outstanding writing.
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Judy Wensel
Judy Wensel lives in Treaty 4 (Regina) and works in theatre across Canada as a director, creator, performer and educator. Her work emphasizes connection to place and community and through her deep interest in collaboration she has conceived and directed numerous interdisciplinary creation-works and community art initiatives with organizations and artists including FadaDance, Wolf Willow Band, Swamp Fest and the Cathedral Village Arts Festival. Her theatre directing work includes productions of contemporary Canadian work, ensemble-based devised creations, and new play premieres. As an educator, she has worked extensively with youth and adults through Common Weal Community Arts, Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society, Theatre Saskatchewan, Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Canadian Improv Games, Globe Theatre School and as Artist-in Residence with Listen to Dis’ Community Arts. Judy has been an Artistic Associate with Curtain Razors Theatre (Regina) since 2015 and the Associate Artistic Director with Sum Theatre (Saskatoon) since 2019. Judy has a BFA in Acting from the University of Regina and is a graduate of the Directing Program at National Theatre School of Canada in Montréal.
Board of Directors
Fanny Kearse
Fritz Pino
Jodi Woollam
Curtain Razors is a Saskatchewan not-for-profit corporation with charitable status operating continuously since its incorporation in 1988. We operate with a volunteer Board of Directors, guided by a group of Artistic Associates.
Curtain Razors operates on the traditional lands of Nēhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota Lakota and Nakoda Nations and the homeland of the Métis. We are fully aware of the urgent need for healing relationships with land and people, through kind action, intentional creativity, and choosing to renounce white supremacy.