Indigenous Artist

Joelle Peters is an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) award-winning playwright and actor from Walpole Island First Nation in Southwestern Ontario. A graduate of Seneca College’s Acting for Camera and Voice Program, Joelle has appeared on Shoresy (Crave/Hulu), Web of Lies (Discovery+), and in the film In Her City (Raven West Films Ltd). Selected theatre credits: Dreary and Izzy (Theatre Northwest), The Election (Nightwood/Theatre Direct/Commonboots/Passe Muraille), Only Drunks and Children Tell The Truth (Western Canada Theatre/Thousand Islands Playhouse), Two Odysseys: Pimooteewin (Signal/Soundstreams), Women of the Fur Trade (Stratford Festival).
She is also the Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts.

In 2020, Joelle was named the Siminovitch Prize Protegee for Playwriting by Laureate Tara Beagan. Joelle’s plays include Frozen River (co-written by Carrie Costello and Michaela Washburn, winner of the 2021 Sharon Enkin Plays for Young People award, published by Playwrights Canada Press), Niizh (premiered at Native Earth Performing Arts and commissioned by the Blyth Festival, published by Playwrights Canada Press), and do you remember? (commissioned by Burnt Thicket Theatre for the We Treaty People audio series).

Instagram: @joellepeters.jpg
Twitter/X: @j0ellepeters
Website: joellepeters.ca

INDIGENOUS ANCESTRY

First Nations

SELF-IDENTIFICATION

Anishinaabe from Bkejwanong Territory