About Savage Society

Telling our own stories sourcing traditional and contemporary Indigenous perspectives, Savage Society was created in 2004 for members to produce their own stories as practising Indigenous Theatre and Film Artists. Artistic Director Kevin Loring is a member of the Nlaka’pamux Nation from the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia.

We develop work that reflects our world view, sourcing traditional stories and cosmologies and our contemporary realities as Indigenous people for both professional and community settings.

Savage Society operates on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie), Qayqayt, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem ), Kwantlen and sc̓əwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsawwassen) Nations.

Our Mission

We tell our own stories sourcing traditional and contemporary Indigenous perspectives.

Artistic Director's Statement | Kevin Loring

Kevin is Nlaka’pamux from the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia, Kevin is an award-winning Actor, Playwright, Director and Producer. Kevin is a graduate of Studio 58,Theatre training program, and was a member of Margo Kane’s Full Circle: First Nations Performance Ensemble. His first published play, Where the Blood Mixes has received multiple productions and was nominated for numerous awards across the country winning three Jessie Richardson awards for theatre in Vancouver and the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. He was the Playwright in Residence at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in 2010, as well as an ensemble member of the National Arts Centre English Theatre Acting Company. He played Shakespeare’s villainous ‘Edmund’ in the National Arts Centre’s production of King Lear, featuring a cast of all Indigenous actors. In 2008 he co-wrote, co-produced and co-hosted the feature length Documentary, Canyon War: The Untold Story, which won top prizes at the Houston International Film and Video Festival and The New York Independent Film and Video Festival. In 2017 he became the first Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre of Canada in Ottawa. Savage Society received the award for “Significant Artistic Achievement: Outstanding Empowering and Uplifting of Indigenous Artists and Narratives” for the productions of White Noise by Taran Kootenhayoo and Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer. Recently he co-wrote Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire, published by Penguin Random House on sale now wherever you buy books.