Danielle Boissoneau is an Anishinaabek writer, poet, storyteller, playwright, screenwriter, and creative facilitator and guide. Her work emerges from her deep love of her people, the land, water and her community. Danielle's creative practice moves across writing, performance, theatre, film, and artistic facilitation, with resurgence, relationship, memory, and possibility at its core.  

She is the playwright of Nbwaachaadaa Nokomis, the screenwriter of Nenaboozhoo, an Anishinaabemowin short film that premiered at the 2026 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, and the author of Bury My Heart at King and James, a collection of essays and poetry published by Hamilton Artists Inc.

As an artistic facilitator and guide, Danielle creates spaces for people to engage with story, language, memory, relationship, and purpose. Danielle has two cats, a garden and an ever expanding record collection. 

Alma is excited to be the Producer for this iteration of Nokomis. Other producing credits include Associate Producer and Executive Director for Tottering Biped Theatre's Shakespeare by Nature project. Alma is also an actor and arts advocate in the GTHA with a passion for elevation and instruction in the arts.

Nada Abusaleh is a performer, theatre-maker and artistic producer based in Hamilton. Nada often works collaboratively on new devised projects, and has worked with Cosmic Fishing Theatre since 2018, creating and producing experimental performances. She is a graduate of the University of Waterloo where she studied Theatre & Performance. Select performance credits include This Is Not What I Want to Tell You (Rimah Jabr); Last Landscape (Bad New Days); The Last 15 Seconds (MT Space); Suitcase (7Spices Theatre); Twelfth Night (Tottering Biped Theatre); and The B Party (Cosmic Fishing Theatre).

Elder Wilamina McGrimmond is a cherished child of the creator and a proud member of the Frog Clan, Tl'azt'en Nation, working with the healing strength of the Bear spirit. She is a beloved sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, auntie, teacher, drummer, sewer, friend, and devoted steward of the earth. Her community leadership has been recognized through prestigious honors, including the Women who Rock and the YMCA Women of the Year Spirit Award. Each week, she shares indigenous culture and wisdom by teaching sewing and native history-bringing hearts, minds and hands together in a powerful expression of healing and heritage. She is the founder of the Spirit Bear Drummers. 

Jordan Carrier is a proud nêhiyaw-iskwêw (Plains Cree woman), born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, and a member of Piapot First Nation in Treaty Four territory. Since making Hamilton her home in 2002, she has dedicated herself to strengthening community through advocacy, education, storytelling, and the arts.

Jordan holds a Diploma in Native Community Care from Mohawk College, a Bachelor of Education in Aboriginal Adult Education from Brock University, an Honours BA in Indigenous Studies from McMaster University, and a Master of Arts in Social Justice and Community Engagement from Wilfrid Laurier University. Over the past two decades, she has worked across community, academic, and national sectors.

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A passionate storyteller and community leader, Jordan is the creator and host of the podcast One Dish, Many Stories, which explores Indigenous narratives on the lands known today as Hamilton, Ontario. She is also the co-creator of Call Her Matriarch with Nicole Kewageshig, a podcast dedicated to uplifting and reclaiming Indigenous women’s voices.

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Jordan’s involvement in the performing arts includes serving as an Indigenous Programming Consultant and member of the Community Curators Circle for the Hamilton Fringe Festival. She was a featured storyteller in the 2022 Frost Bites Festival presented by Hamilton Festival Theatre Company and hosted the Decolonize Your Ears New Play Festival in 2025. Whether on stage, behind a microphone, or in community spaces, Jordan is committed to creating opportunities for Indigenous stories, voices, and perspectives to be heard, celebrated, and remembered.

Leah Drury as Nun - Leah is always so happy to be working with the fine people at Red Beti Theatre.  With this work in particular it’s so important that we as Canadians and as humans listen to these stories of what happened in our recent history.  It’s time we learn with the utmost respect from each other. 

Adam Lemieux is a born-and-raised Hamilton actor. Theatre: Within the Glass (Hamilton Theatre Project); The Damage Done (Hamilton Fringe); Normal Shmormal (Open Heart Arts Theatre, Winner of Best of Galleries Series); The Distance Between Us and the Sun (The Take Up, Frost Bites); The Humans, Death of a Salesman (Dundas Little Theatre); Your Own Sons, TEST (Same Boat Theatre). Film: The Take (Bawaadan Collective); East End (Nathan Fleet) Massacre at Femur Creek (Kyle Hytonen); He’s been a member of Theatre Aquarius’ Junction Program for Theatre Creators and the Hamilton Fringe’s Artistic Leadership and Entrepreneurial Training Program. When he’s not acting, Adam is an avid reader and thrifter-of-cool-sweaters.

Charlie is thrilled to be the Stage Manager for Nokomis. He is a dramaturg and multidisciplinary artist who loves to work behind the scenes in theatre in any capacity. He hopes you enjoy the production all these wonderful people have worked to put on. 

Gurpreet is inspired by creative collaborations that lead to a deeper understanding of the self and others. Trained in the Punjab Gharana (School), the Tabla language is an integral part of how he thinks, feels and communicates. He believes in the power of effective communication and is motivated by the opportunity to improve how systems operate through his artistic practice.

In recent years Gurpreet’s work has been at the intersection of music & technology as co-founder of SURmUN. His background in music, engineering, and supply chain management have allowed him to re-imagine creative processes and develop digital hardware instrument designs that ergonomically and ethically bridge the world of the traditional with digital. By connecting musicians trained in traditional art forms to the digital world, SURmUN aims to inspire conversations that matter by opening new forms of musical expression.