Marie Clements

Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962) is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter. She was the 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. Clements lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. As a writer she has worked in a variety of media including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio and television.

Early life Clements was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. 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. and is still a freelance contributor to CBC radio. She has also worked in the writing department of the television series Da Vinci's Inquest and University of British Columbia

Theatre Research in Canada dedicated a special issue of the journal to the celebration of Clements's contribution to Canadian theatre.

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

In 2024, she was the recipient of the Matt Cohen Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada for her body of work.

In 2025 she entered production on her latest film, under the working title Tombs. Under the release title How We Stand, it is slated to premiere in the Centrepiece program at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival.

Awards 2004 Awarded the Canada - Japan Literary Award – Burning Vision 2004 Nomination for the George Ryga Literary Award - Burning Vision 2004 Nomination for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama - Burning Vision (finalist) 2002 Nomination for Siminovitch Prize in Theatre – Outstanding contribution to Canadian Theatre 2001 Nomination Jessie Richardson Theatre Award – Outstanding Original Play- Burning Vision 1998 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award – The P.T.C. Award – Outstanding Original Play In Development – The Unnatural and Accidental Women 1998 Sundance Screenwriting Competition – Finalist – Now look what you made me do 1997 Praxis Screenwriting Competition – Shortlisted – Now look what you made me do 1996 Minneapolis Playwright's Center – Fellowship Award – Now look what you made me do 1994 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards – Outstanding Ensemble Creation – Wet Dreams 1994 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards – Outstanding Ensemble Performance – Wet Dreams 1994 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards – Sydney Risk Award – Age of Iron 1993 Nomination Jessie Richardson Awards – Outstanding Original Play – Age of Iron

Writings and appearances Plays Age of Iron (1993) Now Look What You Made Me Do (1997) The Girl Who Swam Forever (1997) The Unnatural and Accidental Women (2000) Burning Vision (2002) Copper Thunderbird (2007) The Edward Curtis Project : A Modern Picture Story (2010) Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (2012) Iron Peggy (2020)

Film Da Vinci's Inquest (2002), actor (Melanie Frum) Unnatural & Accidental (2006), screenwriter, actor (Native Bartender) Making History: Louis Riel and the North-West Rebellion of 1885 The Road Forward (2017), writer/director Red Snow (2019) Bones of Crows (2022) Lay Down Your Heart (2022) How We Stand (2026)

Radio Vancouver Rose - ongoing CBC Radio Commentary 2002 The Meter is Running - Sounds Like Canada, CBC Radio 2003 Women in Fish Series - A four-part documentary, CBC Outfront 2005 hours of water- radio drama - CBC Radio Drama 2005 Tombs of the Vanishing Indian (in development)

Multi-media Urban Tattoo (1999) The Women in Fish Interactive Installation Hours of Water (2004) The Red Diva Project (2008) The Edward Curtis Project (2013) Missing (2017)