Yvette Nolan is a playwright, director and dramaturg. Her plays include BLADE, Job’s Wife, Video, Annie Mae’s Movement, Scattering Jake, Two Old Women, the libretto Hilda Blake and the radio play Owen.  She is the editor of Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour, and of the upcoming Refractions: Solo, with Donna-Michelle St Bernard.

Directing credits include Café Daughter by Kenneth T Williams (Gwaandak Theatre), for which she won the Bob Couchman Award for direction, Marie Clements’ Tombs of the Vanishing Indian, Salt Baby by Falen Johnson, A Very Polite Genocide by Melanie J Murray, Death of a Chief, Darrell Dennis’ Tales of An Urban Indian, The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements, Annie Mae’s Movement (Native Earth), The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (Western Canada Theatre/National Arts Centre), The Only Good Indian…, The Triple Truth (Turtle Gals).

As a dramaturg, she works across Canada, most recently on Raven Spirit Dance’s Ashes on the Water. In 2007, she received the Maggie Bassett Award for service to the theatre community. She has been the president of the Playwrights Union of Canada (1998-2001), of Playwrights Canada Press (2003-2005), and of the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance (2007-2008). In 2007-2008 she was the National Arts Centre’s Playwright-In-Residence. The Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts from 2003-2011, she was awarded the City of Toronto’s Aboriginal Affairs Award. On June 7, 2011, she was honoured with the George Luscombe Award for mentorship in professional theatre.

Her new play Two Old Women has had readings at the Arts Club in Vancouver, at the Matariki Festival in Wellington, New Zealand, at Gwaandak Theatre in Whitehorse, Yukon, and at Reverie Productions in New York. She is currently at work on The Book about Native theatre, text for Michael Greyeyes’ dance piece for thine eyes, and an adaptation of The Birds for Gateway Theatre in Richmond, BC.