Teneil Whiskeyjack is a Nehiyaw Iskwew from Saddle Lake First Nation. Teneil is an award-winning actor, playwright, public speaker and mother. Her work stems from a Cree lens that is rooted in a creative process that cultivates expressions of ritual, performance art and theatre with emphasis on the connection between the land and the body to create story. Teneil started as an actor at the age of 9 in an animation series Stories from the Seventh Fire. She garnered Outstanding Performance by an Actress in Film with Hallmark Entertainment’s Dreamkeeper and has been in multiple films and television series such as RenegadePress.com, Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, and most recently TRIBAL: Season 2.

She transitioned into theatre in 2016, in the production of A Musta: Muskikiy Muskwa Iskwew and BlueBirds. Teneil made her playwright debut with the world premiere of Ayita, which is an intermix of Indigenous contemporary dance and theatre for the 10th annual headlining show at SkirtsAfire Festival in March 2022 with the second incarnation of Ayita to premiere in her home community of Saddle Lake on the land in 2023.

She currently performs around Canada and the U.S with the hit show Bear Grease. A comical and energetic Indigenous twist of the classic film Grease. Bear Grease has sold out shows in Vegas, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Calgary. Teneil holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Drama and continues to nurture her curiosities through storytelling as a form of resurgence to Indigenous worldviews and epistemologies.