Joelle Peters
Stratford: Eugenia in Women of the Fur Trade. Elsewhere: Interim Artistic director, Native Earth; Skye in The Election (Commonboots/Nightwood/Theatre Passe Muraille/Theatre Direct); Speck in Mistatim (Red Sky Performance); Win in Two Indians (Onkwehon:we Festival); Barb in Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (Western Canada Theatre/Thousand Islands Playhouse); Nora in The Cure for Death by Lightning (Western Canada Theatre); Izzy in Dreary and Izzy (Theatre NorthWest). Film/TV: Shoresy (Crave/Hulu), In Her City (Raven West Films Ltd). Playwriting: Niizh, Frozen River, Do you remember? Radio/recordings: Wab Kinew’s Walking in Two Worlds (Penguin Random House Canada). Training: Seneca College’s Acting for Camera and Voice. Awards: 2020 Siminovitch Prize Protegee; 2021 Sharon Enkin Plays for Young People Award - Frozen River. Online: @joellepeters.jpg. Et cetera: Joelle is from Bkejwanong Territory, Walpole Island First Nation.
