Weesageechak 35 Festival
Producing Team
rinchen[at]nativeearth.ca
རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་|Rinchen Dolma [ཁོ་/མོ་/she/her] originates from the Himalayas and is currently based in Tkarón:to. She is the founder and Artistic Director of MADE IN EXILE, a grassroots community-arts based initiative that engages young Tibetan creatives in exploring their complex identities through contemporary mediums of storytelling in exile. As an emerging performer, director, playwright, dramaturge and veteran community arts practitioner she is passionate about the intersections between art, labour and community. Rinchen recently participated in the 2019/20 Artist Producer’s Training Program by Generator TO and Factory Theatre’s 20/21 Foundry program– a new work creation group, where she has been developing a full-length play piece called “July 1st.” She completed her 2020/21 Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts Internship in Artistic Direction under Marjorie Chan and is the recipient of the Cahoots Theatre 2021 Promising Pen Prize.
Rinchen is part of the Producing Team for Weesageechak Festival 35.