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Side Show Freaks and Circus Injuns
by Monique Mojica
Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock Nations) is passionately dedicated to a theatrical practice as an act of healing, of reclaiming historical/ cultural memory and resistance. Spun directly from the family-web of New York’s Spiderwoman Theater, her first play Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots was produced in 1990. She founded Chocolate Woman Collective to develop the play Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a performance created by devising a dramaturgy specific to Guna cultural aesthetics, story narrative and literary structure. Monique has taught Indigenous Theatre in theory, process and practice at the University of Illinois, the Institute of American Indian Arts and at McMaster University. Upcoming projects include Side Show Freaks & Circus Injuns co-written with Choctaw playwright, LeAnne Howe with an illustrious team of Indigenous artists from diverse disciplines.
Victorian Secret
by Spy Dénommé-Welch & Catherine Magowan
Spy Dénommé-Welch performs and creates theatre, opera, and video. He wrote and co-compos ed the Dora-nominated opera, Giiwedin, which premiered in April 2010, and was remounted in 2014 by Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Music. He has also composed shorter works for chamber ensemble, including Deux Poèmes Sur La Formation Des Glaces and Bike Rage, which won the 2013 Baroque Idol composer competition. He is currently completing his second full-length opera with collaborator, Catherine Magowan, with the support of OAC and TAC, as well as various musical commissions. When not writing, composing, or teaching, he can be found gracing the stages in his comedy duo Professor Quack & Grunt, delivering scintillating lectures to the masses.
Bassoonist and composer Catherine Magowan has been principal bassoonist with the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra since 2002 and regularly performs across Ontario. In 2010 Catherine was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore award for the opera Giiwedin, which she co-composed with writer and composer Spy Dénommé-Welch. Catherine’s electric bassoon band, Das Fagott Mannschaft (“the bassoon team” in German) has been making a splash in and around Toronto, and her comedy duo, Professor Quack & Grunt, has been entertaining audiences at poetry festivals and book launches. Catherine trained at the Glenn Gould School, and at Ryerson for Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Management.
The Last Few Steps to My Death
by Keith Barker
Keith Barker is a Métis playwright & actor from Northwestern Ontario. A graduate of the George Brown Theatre School, he is the former Artistic Associate and Playwright-in-Residence for at Native Earth Performing Arts. In September 2013 he invited to be part of the Playwrights Retreat at the Stratford Festival. He was the recipient of the SATAward for excellence in playwriting for The Hours That Remain in 2013. Keith is excited to announce that his play, The Hours That Remain will be part of Magnus Theatre’s 2014/15 season.
romanceship
by Cliff Cardinal
Cliff Cardinal made his theatre debut with Native Earth in Freeman’s Wake by Yvette Nolan in the ’05 Rhubarb Festival. Stitch debuted in SummerWorks 2011, winning Theatre Passe Muraille’s Emerging Artist Award. Huff, won the Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award for Risk and Innovation at SummerWorks 2012, and closed the studio season at the National Arts Centre in May of this year. Maria Gets A New Life, debuted at SummerWorks 2013. “This captivating tale of an off-grid mother solidifies Cardinal as one of the most talented and intriguing writers in the country.” – NOW Magazine.
Inua
by Naja Dryrendom Graugaard
Naja Dryrendom Graugaard is a Danish/Inuit theatre artist, storyteller, playwright and mother. In the past few years, she has explored various ways in which theatre can be a space of decolonization, recreation and co-creation. She has co-written and acted in various community theatre performances. She worked and trained with e.g. Judith Koltai-Peavy (Victoria), Odin Teatret (Denmark), and Alternative Living Theatre (India). In 2013, Dryrendom Graugaard was a guest teacher at Greenland’s National Theatre School in Nuuk (Greenland) where she taught movement, voice and “collective creation”. In 2013, she completed a Masters at York University, focusing on a combination of Inuit knowledge and Indigenous performance and storytelling.
by Tantoo Cardinal
Tantoo Cardinal (Cree) is an award-winning stage and screen actress and a founding member of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. Considered by many as the world’s most widely recognized Indigenous actress (Dances With Wolves, Where the Rivers Flow North, and Legends of the Fall), Cardinal was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2009 and holds honorary doctorates from four universities. She is known for her strong film presence, the unspoken eloquence and depth of her performances, and her activism on behalf of the environment and against violence.