You used to call me Marie...

Tai Amy Grauman (MFA) is Metis Cree with ties to Haudenosaunee voyageurs from Ardrossan, Alberta. She is a Callihoo as well as a Beauregard and her family comes from a community in Alberta formerly known as St. Paul des Metis. She is the first elected Provincial Women’s Representative as part of the first Otipemisiawk Metis Government within Alberta and the secretary of advancement for women and girls. Tai is a playwright, actor, director, and producer. She was the first Indigenous woman to complete an MFA in Drama at the University of Alberta. Tai has written 3 plays, ‘ Wiwimaw’, ‘ Marie’s love letters at Lii Taab’ and ‘ You used to call me Marie’. Her work centers on the stories of Metis women in Alberta who have lived in the shadows for far too long.