Yvette Nolan
Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturge who works across Turtle Island. Her works include the plays The Art of War, The Diviners (with Vern Thiessen), The Unplugging, the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shanawdithit, the short play-for-film Katharsis and the VR piece Reconciling. She recently directed Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade at the Stratford Festival and the Globe Theatre in Regina, Julie Tamiko Manning’s Mizushōbai at Tableau d’Hôte, Leah-Simone Bowen’s The Flood at Imago, both in Montreal and Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s The First Stone at New Harlem and GCTC in Toronto and Ottawa. From 2003 to 2011, she served as artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts, Canada’s oldest professional Indigenous theatre, where she helped create Death of a Chief, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Her book, Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada, was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015.
