Indigenous Artist

For years Justin Neal juggled day jobs with his love for theatre in San Francisco and New York. Settling in his family’s traditional Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory, he earned a joint MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre from the University of British Columbia. In 2020, he founded Holy Crow Arts in Vancouver, producing his play So Damn Proud with the fledgling theatre company. His feature The Skins Game is in development with Curiosity Pictures and Really Real Films. A resident of the Norman Jewison Film Program Writers’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre (2022), Neal’s original series for television, Boundary Bay, and his feature, The Traveller, have received development funding through the Indigenous Screen Office and Creative BC.

INDIGENOUS ANCESTRY

First Nations

SELF-IDENTIFICATION

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh