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  Artistic Director, Indigenous Theatre Kevin Loring

  

  Artistic Director, Indigenous Theatre

  Kevin Loring

  Nlaka'pamux Nation, B.C.

  Kevin Loring (Nlaka’pamux, Lytton First Nation) is a Canadian playwright, actor, and director, currently serving as the first Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre. He has received numerous accolades, including the Governor General’s Award for English-language drama and the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script for Where the Blood Mixes (2009), which also received a nomination for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. His 2019 work, Thanks for Giving, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Drama. 

  Loring began his studies at Cariboo College (now Thompson Rivers University) and completed his theatre education at Studio 58, Langara College. He was recognized as a distinguished alumnus by Thompson Rivers University in 2015 and later awarded an honorary doctorate in 2024. In 2017, he received the REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation, and in 2021, he was recognized with an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa. 

  As an actor, Loring’s stage credits include Saint Carmen of the Main, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and an all-Indigenous production of King Lear at the National Arts Centre in 2012. He has appeared in film and television series, including Arctic Air, Health Nutz, Pathfinder and Bones of Crows. His writing credits feature Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer, Battle of the Birds, and The Boy Who Was Abandoned. In 2023, he collaborated with true-crime author Peter Edwards on Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire, reflecting on the community’s history and its significance to the Nlaka’pamux people after the devastating wildfire in 2021. 

  Loring has served as co-curator of the Talking Stick Festival, Artist in Residence at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, and current Artistic Director of Savage Society in Vancouver.

  Membre de la Première Nation Nlaka’pamux de Lytton, Kevin Loring est un dramaturge, un acteur et un metteur en scène canadien; il est le premier et l’actuel directeur artistique du Théâtre autochtone du Centre national des Arts. Il a reçu diverses récompenses, notamment le Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général en théâtre de langue anglaise et le Prix Jessie-Richardson du meilleur texte original pour sa pièce Where the Blood Mixes (2009), qui a également été mise en nomination pour un prix Dora Mavor Moore de la meilleure nouvelle pièce. En 2019, sa pièce Thanks for Giving a été finaliste aux Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie théâtre de langue anglaise. 

  Après des études au Collège Cariboo (aujourd’hui l’Université Thompson Rivers), Kevin Loring parfait sa formation au Studio 58 du Collège Langara. L’Université Thompson Rivers lui a remis un Prix de distinction en 2015, avant de lui décerner un doctorat honorifique en 2024. En 2017, il a remporté le prix en art autochtone REVEAL de la Fondation Hnatyshyn et a reçu en 2021 un doctorat honorifique de l’Université d’Ottawa. 

  Au théâtre, on a pu le voir dans Saint Carmen of the Main, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, et la production entièrement autochtone de King Lear au Centre national des Arts (2012). Au cinéma et à la télévision, il a joué dans Arctic Air, Health Nutz, Pathfinder (Le sang du guerrier, en VF) et Bones of Crows (L’ombre des corbeaux, en VF). Comme auteur, on lui doit notamment Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer, Battle of the Birds et The Boy Who Was Abandoned. En 2023, il a coécrit avec l’auteur spécialiste en affaires criminelles Peter Edwards, Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire, un ouvrage qui retrace l’histoire de Lytton et de la communauté Nlaka’pamux et s’interroge sur l’avenir de la ville après l’incendie dévastateur de 2021. 

  Kevin Loring a œuvré comme coorganisateur du Festival Talking Stick, artiste résident au Vancouver Playhouse Theatre et directeur artistique de la Savage Society à Vancouver. 

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