Playwrights Reading Series
Playwrights Reading Series
Kevin Loring
Kevin Loring (Nlaka’pamux, Lytton First Nation) is a Canadian playwright, actor, and director, currently serving as the first Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre. He has received numerous accolades, including the Governor General’s Award for English-language drama and the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script for Where the Blood Mixes (2009), which also received a nomination for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. His 2019 work, Thanks for Giving, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Drama.
Loring began his studies at Cariboo College (now Thompson Rivers University) and completed his theatre education at Studio 58, Langara College. He was recognized as a distinguished alumnus by Thompson Rivers University in 2015 and later awarded an honorary doctorate in 2024. In 2017, he received the REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award from the Hnatyshyn Foundation, and in 2021, he was recognized with an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa.
Playwrights Reading Series: Kevin Loring
In part of Culture Days, award winning N'lakap'mux playwright, Kevin Loring, will read from his play, Where the Blood Mixes, which focuses on the experience and impacts of residential schools.
Join the online ZOOM Thursday, Sep 24
7:00pm - 8:30pm
As an actor, Loring’s stage credits include Saint Carmen of the Main, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and an all-Indigenous production of King Lear at the National Arts Centre in 2012. He has appeared in film and television series, including Arctic Air, Health Nutz, Pathfinder and Bones of Crows. His writing credits feature Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer, Battle of the Birds, and The Boy Who Was Abandoned. In 2023, he collaborated with true-crime author Peter Edwards on Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire, reflecting on the community’s history and its significance to the Nlaka’pamux people after the devastating wildfire in 2021.
Loring has served as co-curator of the Talking Stick Festival, Artist in Residence at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, and current Artistic Director of Savage Society in Vancouver.
Interview
Kevin Loring provides a powerful voice for Indigenous culture and history through his satirical play Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer.
Podcast
Indigenous Theatre Artistic Director and award-winning playwright Kevin Loring is joined in conversation with Deneh’Cho Thompson about his latest play Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer.
Accessibility
Please let us know if you require accessibility accommodations including ASL translation at least one week prior to a reading. Contact blackstm@uregina.ca.
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