Marie Clements

Marie Clements
Born Marie Humber Clements
(1962-01-10) January 10, 1962
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation Actor, Writer, Director

Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962 in Vancouver, British Columbia)[1] is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer screenwriter. Marie was founding artistic director of urban ink productions, and is currently co-artistic director of red diva projects, and director of her new film company Working Pajama Lab Entertainment.[2] Clements lives on Galiano Island British Columbia Canada. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television.[3][4][5]

Biography

Marie Clements was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Early in her life she studied dance, speech, singing, piano, and music, but she dreamed of being a foreign correspondent. She studied journalism at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.[6] During the 1980s Clements worked as a radio news reporter[7] and is still a freelance contributor to CBC radio.[8] She has also worked in the writing department of the television series Da Vinci's Inquest [8] which featured a plot line similar to The Unnatural and Accidental Women which is based on the murders of several Native women in Vancouver's Skid Row district.

She has been a playwright in residence at the National Theatre School of Canada, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Firehall Arts Centre, and the National Arts Centre. She has been writer-in-residence at several prominent Canadian universities, including Simon Fraser University[9] and University of British Columbia[10]

Theatre Research in Canada (TRIC) dedicated a special issue of the journal to the celebration of Clements's contribution to Canadian theatre.[11]

In 2010, Marie Clements founded Working Pajama Lab, which specializes in the development, creation and strategic weaving of story across film, t.v., digital media and live performance.[10][10] She also founded Red Diva Project the same year when she was commissioned to create the Aboriginal Pavilion’s closing performance at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Dramaturgy

Marie Clements's plays often consider several overlapping themes, such as the themes of racism, sexism, and violence explored in The Unnatural and Accidental Women. Her theatrical style is a blending of Aboriginal storytelling, ritual and western theatrical conventions.[5] As a playwright, director, and dramaturg, she "explores important issues of women, aboriginals, and the realities of the urban core in innovative, highly theatrical stagings"[1]

It was while touring the Canadian north that Clements wrote her first play, Age of Iron (1993). She says it was "sheer cold boredom and a serious desire to understand and integrate the elemental connections between Greek mythology and Native thought" that inspired her to write the play.[12]

Clements's plays often "reframe...authorized Western histories" to encourage spectators acknowledgement of alternative histories and critically engage with the process of historiography.[13] Both Burning vision and The Unnatural and Accidental Women engage with elements of Canadian history that are pushed to the periphery and press issues of "counter-hegemonic remembrance practices"[14]

Her importance as a Canadian playwright is reflected in the number of award nominations, the multiple translations of her works, and the number of scholarly articles dedicated to her plays.[15]

Awards

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Writings and appearances

Plays

Film

Radio

Multi-Media

References

  1. 1 2 Gilbert, Reid (2007). "Marie Clements". id. "Marie Clements." Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance. 4 (1): 147–151. See p. 147.
  2. ↑ http://www.reddiva.ca/#!mc/c786
  3. ↑ http://www.marieclements.ca/#!about/c2414
  4. 1 2 http://www.bravofact.com/2012/12/18/marie-clements/
  5. 1 2 Gilbert, Reid (2010). "Introduction: Marie Clements/Presentation: Marie Clements.". Theatre Research in Canada. 31 (2).
  6. ↑ Gilbert, Reid (2007). "Marie Clements". id. "Marie Clements." Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance. 4 (1): 147–151. See pp. 147-8.
  7. ↑ "Artist Stories | The Canada Council for the Arts". Canadacouncil.ca. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
  8. 1 2 Archived June 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ↑ http://www.sfu.ca/english/writer-in-residence.html
  10. 1 2 3 http://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/news-events/residencies/writer-in-residence.html
  11. ↑ http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/tric/article/view/18427/19913
  12. ↑ Gilbert, Reid (2007). "Marie Clements". id. "Marie Clements." Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance. 4 (1): 147–151. See p. 148.
  13. ↑ Hargreaves, Allison (2011). "'A precise instrument for seeing': remembrance in Burning Vision and the activist classroom". Canadian Theatre Review. 147 (147): 49–54. See p. 50.
  14. ↑ Hargreaves, Allison (2011). "'A precise instrument for seeing': remembrance in Burning Vision and the activist classroom". Canadian Theatre Review. 147 (147): 49–54. See p. 51.
  15. ↑ "Interview with Marie Clements". hemispheric institute Digital Video Library. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  16. ↑ http://talonbooks.com/authors/marie-clements
  17. ↑ http://media.wix.com/ugd/a3cd5c_17f764c43a32b54677222295201cdafb.pdf
  18. ↑ http://www4.nac-cna.ca/pdf/eth/0607/copper_thunderbird_guide.pdf
  19. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1837961/

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