MICHAELA WASHBURN
Hailing from Alberta, Michaela Washburn is a proud Métis artist of Cree, French, Irish, and English ancestry. An award winning actor and author, Michaela has also garnered multiple nominations including the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize, the Ontario Arts Council Indigenous Arts Award and the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Theatre. Her practice spans theatre, film, television, audiobook narration, spoken word, clown and improvisation. She has performed in Wales, Aruba, across Canada and the United States. Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy), a play she co-wrote with Carrie Costello and Joelle Peters, won the 2021 Sharon Enkin Plays for Young People Award, and is available through Playwrights Canada Press. Currently, this collective is working on their next collaboration, Going Under; a play about teen suicide.
FOR SOULPEPPER: Takwahiminana, Almighty Voice and His Wife, La Bete, Animal Farm, Confederation Series (VideoCabaret/Soulpepper), Trudeau and Levesque (VideoCabaret/Soulpepper), Trudeau and the FLQ (VideoCabaret/Soulpepper), White Biting Dog
THEATRE: Honour Beat (New West Theatre), This Is How We Got Here (Native Earth), Guarded Girls (Tarragon/Green Light Arts), Grace (Nightwood), Fortune of Wolves (Theatre New Brunswick), In Care (Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre), The Hours That Remain (Magnus Theatre), The Speedy (UnSpun Theatre), Where the Blood Mixes (Western Canada Theatre/Theatre Aquarius/Theatre Network), The Rez Sisters (Factory Theatre), Such Creatures (Theatre Passé Muraille), Salt Baby (Native Earth), Spirit Horse (Roseneath Theatre), Three Little Birds (Workshop West Theatre), Death Of A Chief (Native Earth/National Arts Center), Dreary and Izzy (Native Earth)
FILM & TV: Skymed (Paramount/CBC/CBS), Pretty Hard Cases (CBC), Burden of Truth (CBC), Baroness Von Sketch (CBC/IFC), The River You Step In (Marjory Avenue Productions and Film Coop), Just One Word (Paper Canoe Projects), Guilt Free Zone (APTN), Remedy (Global TV), Breakout Kings (A&E), By The Rapids (APTN)
OTHER: Upcoming, Michaela is delighted to be making her debut with Canadian Stage this summer in their production of Romeo and Juliet in High Park .