Marie Clements
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Marie Clements is a Métis playwright, performer, director, producer screenwriter, and founding artistic director of urban ink productions and fathom labs highway. Clements lives on Galiano Island
British Columbia
Canada. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre
, performance
, film
, multi-media, radio
, and television
.
's Skid Row
district.
She has been a playwright in residence at the National Theatre School of Canada
, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Firehall Arts Centre, and the National Arts Centre
.
Her work often blends storytelling and traditional theatre styles to create her plays, which often are historiographic in nature. She is well known for her soundscapes and dramaturgical work, which is both poetic and intricate and has been compared to composing music.
Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC) will be dedicating an upcoming special issue of the journal to the celebration of Clements's contribution to Canadian theatre.
Galiano Island
Galiano Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Located on the west side of the Strait of Georgia, it is 27.5 km long, 6 km at its widest point, and 1.6 km across at its narrowest point and is separated...
British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
Canada. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, performance
Performance
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, multi-media, radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
, and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
.
Biography
During the 1980s Clements worked as a radio news reporter and is still a freelance contributor to CBC radio. She has also worked in the writing department of the tv series Da Vinci's inquest which featured a plot line similar to The Unnatural and Accidental Women which is based on the murders of several Native women in VancouverVancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
's Skid Row
Skid row
A skid row or skid road is a run-down or dilapidated urban area with a large, impoverished population. The term originally referred literally to a path along which working men skidded logs. Its current sense appears to have originated in the Pacific Northwest...
district.
She has been a playwright in residence at the National Theatre School of Canada
National Theatre School of Canada
The National Theatre School of Canada is a private college located in Montreal, Quebec.Established in Montreal in 1960, the National Theatre School of Canada offers professional training in English and French in a setting that unites all the theatre arts: acting, playwriting, directing, set and...
, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Firehall Arts Centre, and the National Arts Centre
National Arts Centre
The National Arts Centre is a centre for the performing arts located in Ottawa, Ontario, between Elgin Street and the Rideau Canal...
.
Her work often blends storytelling and traditional theatre styles to create her plays, which often are historiographic in nature. She is well known for her soundscapes and dramaturgical work, which is both poetic and intricate and has been compared to composing music.
Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC) will be dedicating an upcoming special issue of the journal to the celebration of Clements's contribution to Canadian theatre.
Awards
- 2004 Awarded the Canada - Japan Literary Award – Burning Vision
- 2004 Nomination for the George Ryga Literary Award - Burning Vision
- 2004 Nomination for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama - Burning Vision (finalist)
- 2002 Nomination for Siminovitch Prize in TheatreSiminovitch Prize in TheatreThe Siminovitch Prize in Theatre is given to recognize achievement in Canadian theatre; specifically, professional directors, playwrights and designers in three-year cycles...
– Outstanding contribution to Canadian Theatre - 2001 Nomination Jessie Richardson Theatre Award – Outstanding Original Play- Burning Vision
- 1998 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award – The P.T.C. Award – Outstanding Original Play In Development – The Unnatural and Accidental Women
- 1998 Sundance Screenwriting Competition – Finalist – Now look what you made me do
- 1997 Praxis Screenwriting Competition – Shortlisted – Now look what you made me do
- 1996 Minneapolis Playwright’s Center – Fellowship Award – Now look what you made me do
- 1994 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards – Outstanding Ensemble Creation – Wet Dreams
- 1994 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards – Outstanding Ensemble Performance – Wet Dreams
- 1994 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards – Sydney Risk Award – Age of Iron
- 1993 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards – Outstanding Original Play – Age of Iron
Plays
- Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (in development)
- Age of Iron (1993)
- Now Look What You Made Me Do (1997)
- The Unnatural and Accidental Women (2000)
- Copper Thunderbird (2007)
- Burning Vision (2002)
- The Girl Who Swam Forever (1997)
- Dirty Dog River
Film
- Unnatural and Accidental (2006), writer
- Unnatural and Accidental (2006), actor (Native Bartender)
- Da Vinci's Inquest (2002), actor (Melanie Frum)
- Making History: Louis Riel and the North-West Rebellion of 1885
Radio
- Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (in development)
- hours of water- radio drama - CBC Radio Drama 2005.
- Women in Fish Series - A four part documentary, CBC Outfront 2005.
- The Meter is Running - Sounds Like Canada, CBC Radio 2003
- Vancouver Rose - ongoing CBC Radio Commentary 2002
Multi-Media
- The Edward Curtis Project (in production 2009)
- The Red Diva Project (2008)
- Hours of Water (2004)
- The Women in Fish Interactive Installation
- Urban Tattoo (1999)
External links
- http://www.marieclements.ca/
- http://www.playwrightscanada.com/playwrights/marie_clements.html
- http://www.urbanink.ca/marie_bio.asp
- http://www.talonbooks.com/index.cfm?event=authorDetails&authorID=37
- http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Clements%2C%20Marie
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1837961/
- http://www.canadacouncil.ca/aboutus/artistsstories/writing/id128030575037523966.htm