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Marie Clements
Playwright, performer, director (theatre
and radio), artistic director and screenwriter Marie Clements was born
in Vancouver in 1962 and now lives on British Columbia's Galiano Island.
During the 1980s she worked as a radio news reporter and continues to
freelance for CBC Radio. She has worked in the writing department of
the television series "Da Vinci's Inquest," and written ten plays
including Age of Iron, Now Look What You Made Me Do,
The Girl Who Swam Forever, The Suitcase Chronicles, Burning
Vision (nominated for the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award,
for the George Ryga Literary Award, for six Jessie Richardson Theatre
Awards, and it won the Canada Council's 2004 Canada-Japan Literary
Award), The Unnatural and Accidental Women, Urban Tattoo
and Copper Thunderbird.
Clements is currently working on the
stage and film script of 'Tombs of the Vanishing Indian,' and the
Edward Curtis Project commission by the Presentation House Theatre in
North Vancouver.
She has also performed in more than
fifty productions on stages across Canada and the United States, including
Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre and Firehall Arts Centre, Toronto's
Factory Theatre, and Victoria's Belfry Theatre.
In 2001, Clements founded the Vancouver-based urban ink productions, a First Nations theatre company which develops
and produces Aboriginal and multicultural works that utilize interdisciplinary
approaches to theatre, dance, music, film and video. As artistic director
of urban ink, Clements produced a multimedia docudrama, hours of water,
which was broadcast on CBC Radio in 2005-06.
In 2002, Clements was nominated for
the Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize for Outstanding Contribution to
Canadian Theatre. Clements has also been playwright-in-residence at
the National Theatre School, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Firehall
Arts Centre, and the National Arts Centre.
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