Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, dramaturg and director. Her plays include BLADE, Job’s Wife, Video, Annie Mae’s Movement, Scattering Jake, from thine eyes, The Unplugging, The Birds (a modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ comedy), and Ham and the Ram. Directing credits include Justice, Café Daughter (Gwaandak Theatre), Tombs of the Vanishing Indian, Salt Baby, A Very Polite Genocide, Death of a Chief, Tales of An Urban Indian, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, Annie Mae’s Movement (Native Earth), The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (Western Canada Theatre/National Arts Centre), The Only Good Indian..., The Triple Truth (Turtle Gals). She works across Turtle Island as a dramaturg, on projects as diverse as Ultrasound (Adam Pottle/Cahoots), Confluence (Raven Spirit Dance), A Soldier's Tale (Signal Theatre), The Glooskape Chronicles (Donna Loring/Seven Eagles Media), A History of Breathing (Daniel Macdonald). From 2003-2011, she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts, Canada’s oldest professional Aboriginal theatre. Her book on Native theatre in Canada - Medicine Shows - was published by Playwrights Canada Press in May 2015.

playwright, director, dramaturg, Native theatre

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