Yvette Nolan
Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturg. Her works include the plays The Unplugging, The Art of War, Annie Mae’s Movement, The Birds (a modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ comedy), the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit, the short play-for-film Katharsis, and the VR piece Reconciling for Boca del Lupo. She co-created, with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight, the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt, about relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. From 2003-2011, she served as the Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts. Her book, Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada, was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015, and Performing Indigeneity (co-edited with Ric Knowles) in 2016. Born in Prince Albert, grown up in Winnipeg, Yvette has lived all over this land, from Nova Scotia to the Yukon.