JOELLE PETERS
she/her
Joelle Peters is from Walpole Island First Nation in Southwestern Ontario. SOULPEPPER 2022: Kamloopa FOR SOULPEPPER: Debut OTHER THEATRE: The Election (Passe Muraille/CommonbootsNightwood/Theatre Direct); Two Odysseys: Pimooteewin (Signal/Soundstreams); Dreary and Izzy (Theatre Northwest) FILM & TELEVISION: Shoresy; In Her City; Web of Lies OTHER: In 2021 she was awarded the Sharon Elkin Plays for Young People Award for her play Frozen River (co-written with Michaela Washburn & Carrie Costello). Joelle was named the Siminovitch Prize Protegee (Playwriting) by laureate Tara Beagan in 2020.