
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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.

MANAGING PRODUCER
Chelsea McPeake Carlson
Chelsea has worked in arts production and administration for over fifteen years managing and producing theatre and special events. For 11 years (until 2012) she worked in Administration and Production at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, most recently as Associate Producer. In 2010 she produced the five-city national tour of Kevin Loring’s Where the Blood Mixes and became General Manager of Savage Society that same year. Chelsea is the recipient of the 2019 John Hobday Award in Arts Management.

OPERATIONS MANAGER
Amy Wertz

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