Indigenous Artist

Montana is a theatre artist who has experience as a playwright, actor, dramaturge, producer, and director. Her art focuses on the narratives that have shaped her community and the investigation into how our community chooses to interact with one another. Montana's most recent project and is a joint collaboration with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribes' (New York State) A/CDP CLubhouse titled "Teotsitsia'ho", which a youth led project within Akwesasne inspired by the myths and ladies of legend of Mohawk stories.

She has had experience within her own community of Akwesasne on both sides of the border. She has worked within the tribal and band council organizations, where she had the opportunity to learn about leadership and the operations of both the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe through internships and Youth Council initiatives.

During her time in Ottawa, she has had the opportunity to work for the National Arts Centre as a research assistant in Indigenous Theatre in 2019, and a Producing Resident in 2025. Also while in Ottawa she was engaged in the independent theatre scene, and within the Ottawa theatre festival circuit, having worked in some capacity with or in Ottawa Fringe, Fresh Meat, Ottawa Children's Festival, TACTICS, and Undercurrents, producing, acting, writing, or providing dramaturgy. Her show she created for the 2019 Fringe Festival "My Good Friend Jay" was then selected for Undercurrents in 2022. It was also given a virtual staged reading for the American Indian Community House based out of New York City, and was part of the Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival in 2025.

In the States, she has worked in Syracuse, New York, as an actor with Syracuse Stage in the solo show "Our Words Are Seeds" by Ty Dufoe, and as a playwright with New York Stage and Film's Native Voices Residency in Poughkeepsie, New York. She also participated in the Indigenous Dramaturges Exchange in 2023 at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta.

INDIGENOUS ANCESTRY

First Nations

SELF-IDENTIFICATION

Akwesasne Mohawk