Indigenous Artist

Jay Is That Indigenous Arts Coordinator at The Paprika Festival in Toronto. They are a multidisciplinary artist, director, playwright, burlesque dancer, and producer. They hold a BFA in Performance from the University of Lethbridge.
Jay works to decolonize their art and practice with storytelling, movement, and gesture to create foundation. They push their own boundaries by rejection notions of a ‘final’ or ‘polished’ production and focus on a live-ness by continuing to push their own assumptions of storytelling and theatre.
They actively seek to be a voice for diversity, equity and inclusion within the Art community.

INDIGENOUS ANCESTRY

First Nations

SELF-IDENTIFICATION

Chipewyan First Nation/Caribbean