Untimely
Theatre

With the Collective

As a director, Ardith has worked with Sarah Constible on The Monster Trilogy, Beautiful Man, and Lara Rae's Dragonfly, and directed Ross McMillan in Michael Healey's Proud — playing Stephen Harper — and in Prairie Nurse. As actors, she and Ross toured the Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringes with Harry Rintoul's delightful Between Then and Now, and rapped and rhymed together in Allan Stratton's Bag Babies. She and Steven Ratzlaff played the Winnipeg Fringe with Dale Lakevold's October/Octubre, and as Artistic Director of Theatre Projects Manitoba she worked with Tracey, Steven, Ross, Sarah, and Bill on many shows, workshops, and salons.

Sarah has acted, written, directed, and composed for stages across the country and appeared in numerous films; she also directed a film adaptation of Steven Ratzlaff's Dionysus in Stony Mountain. Most recently she served as composer and music director for Shakespeare in the Ruins' As You Like It, directed by Michelle Boulet, and she is a founding member of the Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir, which released its first full-length album in spring 2026.

In 2022, she graduated with honours from the inaugural Red River College Digital Film and Media Production program. Directing credits include The Ghost of a Flea (Wych Elm Productions);Prophecy (Assistant Director, Theatre Projects Manitoba); You are Happy, FanAddict, How to Live Forever, (Art)ist (Hypothetical Projects). She was the recipient of the inaugural Dan Augusta Promise Prize from Sick + Twisted Theatre and received the Gladys Cameron Watt Award in the 84th National One-Act Playwriting Competition.

Deklan has been involved with many productions at the University doing all type of production design. Past credits include Our Country's Good (University of Manitoba) directed by Bill Kerr as the co-production designer and lighting designer; Mad Forest (University of Manitoba) directed by Jacquie Loewen as Student Technician. Deklan has also done acting work as Conn from The Shaughraun and other productions at the University of Manitoba.

Bill has directed, acted in, and dramaturged productions and workshops for the University of Manitoba, Theatre Projects Manitoba, the Manitoba Association of Playwrights, Untimely Theatre, Moving Target, Toothsome Breed Theatre Company, and the Incompletely Strangled Theatre Company in Winnipeg; for the Edmonton and Saskatoon Fringes; for the Citadel Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Workshop West Theatre, and Studio Theatre in Edmonton; and for Greystone Theatre and Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.

Most recently he directed Steven Ratzlaff's Sonja and Richard — the inaugural Untimely Theatre production at the Gargoyle Theatre — along with Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros, and Wajdi Mouawad's Scorched for the University of Manitoba. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba, holding a BA in English (Saskatchewan) and an MA in Drama and a PhD in Drama and English (Alberta).

With the Collective

Bill is delighted to be rejoining longtime collaborators Steven Ratzlaff, Sarah Constible, Ross McMillan, and Ardith Boxall. He has been a dramaturge on Steven's plays since dramaturging and directing Ross and Sarah in Dionysus in Stony Mountain, under Ardith's leadership at Theatre Projects Manitoba, and later dramaturged Steven's Reservations there with Sarah, Tracey Nepinak, and Steven performing. Ross directed Bill, Sarah, and Tracey in Pinter's Old Times at the Winnipeg Fringe, and Bill directed Steven — alongside Marina Stephenson Kerr — in Pinter's Ashes to Ashes for Royal MTC's Master Playwright Festival.

With the ensemble Geräuschbiest, Jesse has created new oratorios and immersive performances rooted in rich storytelling and innovative acoustic textures, integrating homemade instruments and a range of choirs. His work explores the materiality of sound and voice, weaving sacred and folk traditions with experimental timbres to evoke emotional and cultural resonance.

For The Bloody Theatre, he is designing sound for a play inspired by the Martyrs Mirror, incorporating Dutch folk song alongside original sonic dramaturgy to deepen its historical and affective world.

As an actor, Steven's credits include Hamlet and Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruins), Glengarry Glen Ross and August: Osage County (Royal MTC), and Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (Prairie Theatre Exchange / Belfry Theatre).

His play Sonja and Richard was staged at the Gargoyle Theatre in 2022. Three of his earlier plays were produced by Theatre Projects Manitoba — Last Man in Puntarenas, Reservations, and Dionysus in Stony Mountain.

With the Collective

Steven has been directed by Sarah Constible (Zoo Story, Last Man in Puntarenas, Julius Caesar), by Bill Kerr (Ashes to Ashes and his own Sonja and Richard), and by Ross McMillan (Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, Blithe Spirit, and the Fringe version of Dionysus in Stony Mountain). He has acted alongside Sarah and Tracey Nepinak in Reservations, with Tracey in Antony and Cleopatra, and with Sarah in Blithe Spirit. As Artistic Director of Theatre Projects Manitoba, Ardith Boxall produced three of his plays, including Dionysus in Stony Mountain, and Bill has been dramaturge for most of his work.

Tracey began her theatre training at Vancouver's Spirit Song Theatre School, completed a BA (Honours) in Theatre back home in Manitoba, and has worked professionally in theatres across the country since 1994. Recent stage credits include Little Women and The Comeback (Royal MTC), Rise Red River (Théâtre Cercle Molière / Prairie Theatre Exchange), and Yaga (Belfry Theatre).