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Marie Clements

Marie Clements is an award-winning Métis performer, playwright and director whose work has been presented on stages across Canada, the United States and Europe. She is the founder of urban ink productions, a Vancouver-based First Nations production company that creates, develops and produces Aboriginal and multi-cultural works of theatre, dance, music, film and video.
Clements was invited to the prestigious Festival de Theatre des Ameriques in 2001 for Urban Tattoo and in 2002 for Burning Vision. In 2002, she worked in the writing department of the television series Da Vinci’s Inquest. A fellowship award from the BC Film Commission enabled her to develop the film adaptation of her stage play, The Unnatural and Accidental Women. She is also a regular contributor on CBC Radio. Clements writes, or, perhaps more accurately, composes, with an urbane, incisive and sophisticated intellect; her refined artistry is deeply rooted in the particulars of her place, time and history. The world premiere of Copper Thunderbird is the first time Canada’s National Arts Centre has produced the work of a First Nations playwright on its main stage.
Awards and Recognition
Canada-Japan Literary Award (2004) Burning Vision
Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, Finalist (2003) Burning Vision
Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play, Nominee (2002) Burning Vision
Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Theatre, Nominee (2002)
Jessie Richardson Awards, P.T.C. Award for Outstanding Original Play in Development (1998) The Unnatural and Accidental Women
Sundance Screenwriting Competition, Finalist (1998) Now Look What You Made Me Do
Praxis Screenwriting Competition, Short-listed (1997) Now Look What You Made Me Do
Jessie Richardson Awards, Sydney Risk Award for Original Script by an Emerging Playwright (1993) Age of Iron.

March 2012 : NAC English Theatre 2012-2013 Season

February 2012 : Warren Cariou and Marie Clements at Play Chthonics

December 2011 : Talonbooks Presents Karl and Christy Siegler's Farewell Bash

September 2011 : Lorne Cardinal to play Norval Morrisseau and Michel Tremblay's 'Narrator'

March 2011 : The Road Forward For Marie Clements and Kevin Loring

February 2011 : 'Smiling Indians' - Take that, Edward S. Curtis!

January 2011 : Unnatural and Accidental

December 2010 : Women in Fish

December 2010 : Self Portraits: Edward and Eadweard

November 2010 : Snap!

August 2010 : The Road Forward

May 2010 : Jessie Richardson Nominations for Three Talonbooks Dramaturges

BOOK AWARDS

Winner of the 1998 Jessie Richardson Award for The P.T.C. Award – Outstanding Original Play in Development

BOOK AWARDS

Finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award

BOOK AWARDS

Winner of the 2004 Canada Japan Literary Award English-Language

Finalist for the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award

Finalist for the 2002 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play or Musical: Small Theatre (Rumble Productions)

QUOTES OF NOTE

“ Tombs of the Vanishing Indian is often deeply touching, a piece of theatrical anthropology about the determined survival of a people, not its demise.”
—Toronto Sun

QUOTES OF NOTE

“The Curtis Project, our choice for Gold at the Cultural Olympiad…I was moved!”
— The Globe & Mail

“Ambitious and wildly creative.”
— Janet Smith, The Georgia Straight

“Powerfully Challenging…the design is superb”
— Martin Millerchip, Curtain Call

"Witnessing has its costs, its collateral damage. Artists run the risk of vicarious traumatization, but being forced to look is a far different act than forcing a look."
— plankmagazine.com

QUOTES OF NOTE

“Marie Clements … is building a powerful reputation for her innovative approaches to … theatre on aboriginal themes.”
— Vancouver Sun

“Clements’ wondrous stage directions call for painterly interplay between human beings and the natural world and aboriginal cosmology.”
— Halifax Chronicle

QUOTES OF NOTE

“Poetry, multi-media, inventive staging, and arresting choral works honour the women’s lives and seek empowering narratives beyond the victimizing tropes of the media.”

— Canadian Literature