Marie Clements

 


Marie Clements is an award-winning Metis performer and playwright, and Artistic Director of urban ink productions. Her eight plays including Age of Iron, Now look what you made me do, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, and Urban Tattoo, have been produced and presented across Canada, the United

States and Europe, and published in a variety of anthologies and books.

Over the last few years, Marie has developed her latest works through writers’ residencies at Rumble Productions, Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal, The National Theatre School, the Banff PlayRites Colony and the Firehall Arts Centre. Her play, Burning Vision, was nominated for five Jessie Richardson Awards after its premiere in Vancouver last year and has been invited to the prestigious Festival de Théâtre des Amériques in Montréal, and the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Ottawa this spring. It was also nominated for a Governor General’s Award.

In the 2002 season, Marie worked in the writing department of the television series DaVinci’s Inquest, and she is currently working on a film adaptation of The Unnatural and Accidental Women through a fellowship with the BC Film Commission.

As an actor, past credits include An Enemy of the People and Sisters at The Firehall Arts Centre, Sled for Touchstone Theatre, Wet Dreams for Tamahnous Theatre, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapaskasing at The Arts Club Theatre, No Totem for my Story and Where Two Rivers Meet during the Mark Taper Forum's Native American Play Reading Series. Urban Tattoo, directed by Randy Reinholz and produced by Native Voices, toured extensively throughout Canada and the U.S.

Other publications

  • "The Unnatural and Accidental Women". Canadian Theatre Review, Winter 2000.
  • "The Age of Iron" (excerpt). Taking the Stage: Selections from Plays by Canadian Women. Ed. Cynthia immerman. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1995