Joelle Peters is an award-winning Indigenous (Anishinaabe) actor/playwright working in theatre, television, film and current Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts. Her plays include Niizh, Frozen River (with Michaela Washburn and Carrie Costello), and do you remember? Joelle has performed at the Stratford Festival, SummerWorks, the Thousand Islands Playhouse, Western Canada Theatre and more. […]
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Ukrainian actor and playwright Mariya Khomutova started her theatre studies in Odesa at the age of 12. She graduated from the Kyiv National Theatre University in 2012 and worked in two repertoire theatres in Kyiv. Her play First Métis Man Of Odesa, which she co-wrote and performed with her husband Matthew MacKenzie, received three 2023 […]
A citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Matthew MacKenzie is a multi-award-winning playwright from amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Artistic Director of Punctuate! Theatre, Matthew is the founder and an artistic associate with Pyretic Productions and Canadian Liaison of the Liberian Dance Troupe. Matthew has had nearly a dozen of his works produced across Turtle Island.
Jeff Ho is a theatre artist, originally from Hong Kong. His plays include cockroach (曱甴), Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land), Antigone: 方, and trace. Jeff is a recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama, the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best New Canadian Play, the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Award, has […]
Hiro Kanagawa is a Vancouver-based actor and writer. His full-length plays The Tiger of Malaya and The Patron Saint of Stanley Park have been performed across Canada as have many of his shorter works. He received the 2017 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Drama for his play, Indian Arm. Also a script consultant, he was story […]
Suvendrini Lena is a mother, daughter, sister, aunt and decolonization enthusiast, living in T’karonto. She is also a playwright and staff neurologist at Women’s College Hospital. She teaches/learns Neurology and Medicine and Humanities at the University of Toronto (Tkaronto). Her plays include The Enchanted Loom, on the Sri Lankan civil war (Cahoots/Factory Theatre), Here are […]
Natasha Adiyana Morris is a soft-spoken, dramatic storyteller. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Toronto’s West End—in the most encouraging and full’up Jamaican household—being (h)extra is in her blood. Recognized for founding PIECE OF MINE Arts, an initiative that presents works in progress by Black play creators, she owes a great deal to the esteemed […]
Jordan Tannahill is a playwright, novelist and filmmaker. His work has been widely presented, and translated into a dozen languages.
Cliff Cardinal is a poet, actor and playwright. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Cliff studied playwriting at the National Theatre School. He wrote and performed Huff, Cliff Cardinal’s CBC Special, The Land Acknowledgement and (Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them). Cliff Cardinal and The Skylarks’ song Suicidal Valentine reached #6 […]
