Emerging Artist (Selected by Estelle Shook)

Kathleen MacLean (they/she) is a 2Spirit, Métis-Settler artist from Treaty 6 Territory & the Homeland of the Métis (Saskatoon, SK). Kathleen is a graduate from the National Theatre School of Canada Acting Program and was also part of the inaugural Pimootayowin Indigenous Playwright Circle at RMTC. Kat currently works at Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre as the Artistic Associate and the Coordinator for the Circle of Voices Program, taking acting contracts when they can. 

Selection of Past Credits: This Is How We Got Here, The Herd, The Revolutionists (Persephone Theatre Saskatoon), Women of the Fur Trade (The Globe Regina), Rez Sisters, 1939, Women of the Fur Trade (Stratford Festival), The Secret to Good Tea (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), Wood Buffalo (Theatre New Brunswick).

Kinanâskomitin to the Indigenous and Queer storytellers who have come before me – I stand on their shoulders.