About Us
What is Tic Toc TEN?
Tic Toc TEN Short Performance Festival is a performance arts festival in Regina, Saskatchewan, featuring new works by Saskatchewan artists. The festival was inaugurated in March of 2019. Tic Toc TEN showcases the vast talent that Saskatchewan has to offer by presenting 6-10 performances of 10 minutes each. It is a creative environment and the festival presents an opportunity to network with artists around the province.
We are Saskatchewan based artists. Born here, raised here, theatrically educated here, and wanting to make a life here creating art. Tic Toc TEN was hatched while touring a Fringe show in Hamilton, Ontario. We had a long discussion about how we did not see enough opportunities for new emerging artists to get their name out in the universe. The opportunities were scarce and becoming scarcer, and Tic Toc TEN was born. We wanted a place for emerging artists and established artists to be able to showcase their unique voices and experimental pieces to one another while developing connections with fellow performers from other disciplines.
Our intention is to keep this festival running in Regina as long as there are artists who wish to be heard and share their work. We want to inspire Saskatchewan artists to keep creating, exploring, and trying new things. We will be holding the festival every two years as this allows ourselves as artists and our community to pursue other artistic endeavours. Our dream is to see Tic Toc TEN become a staple of the Regina and surrounding areas’ arts community.
Founding Members
Robyn Sanderson is proud to be a theatre artist from Regina Saskatchewan. She is trained through the Globe Theatre Conservatory program, and holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Regina. Since graduating she has been active in her local community with both theatre and film, as well as singing with the Halcyon Chamber Choir. Last summer she was part of a show that toured across Canada and won multiple Broadway World awards. Although acting may be a first love, she is beyond thrilled to be taking on a new role and expanding her skills as a co-creator of this festival.
Gabrielle Dufresne, Co-Artisic Director is a Fransaskoise, proudly working as a theatre artist in both French and English. She holds a BFA in Acting from the U of R, and her MA from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2015. Since her return to Canada, Gabrielle has been an active theatre artist in her community and has been a representative of SK at the Magnetic North Festival (2016), and the Zônes Théatrâles in Ottawa (2017). She is a founding member of ShoulderBirds Productions, and a big advocate of emerging artists and self-produced works. Acting and devising and her passions, Gabrielle also works as a theatre workshop facilitator, and has worn the playwright, director, and now producer hats for various projects.
Abbey Thiessen, Co-Artistic Director is a Saskatchewan based actor with a BFA in acting from the University of Regina. She has worked with Regina Little Theatre, Treeline Theatre Company, The Women’s Company of Regina, Five Loaves Theatre and as Alumni with the University of Regina. She is a co-artistic Director and producer of Tic Toc TEN Short performance festival. Dabbling in Project coordination, stage management and playwriting her first love is acting. Never one to say no to a challenge, you’ll never know what she has up her sleeve next.