Marie Clements

Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962) is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter. She studied journalism at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta. During the 1980s, Clements worked as a radio news reporter. As a writer, she has worked in a variety of mediums including film, television, radio, and live performance. Clements's plays typically consider several overlapping themes, such as racism, sexism, and violence. Her theatrical style is a blending of Aboriginal storytelling, ritual and western theatrical conventions, often reframing authorized Western histories to encourage acknowledgment of alternative narratives. Clements created Urban Ink Production Society in 2001, an Indigenous and multi-cultural theatre company. Before her 2007 departure, she served as artistic director and produced over a dozen new works for the mainstage. Her play Burning Vision toured nationally and was nominated for the 2002 Governor General Award. In 2010, Clements founded Working Pajama Lab, which specialized in the story creation and development across film, television, digital media, and live performance. The same year, she was commissioned to create the Aboriginal Pavilion's closing performance at Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympic Games. This led her to create red diva projects, a production company focused on Indigenous films, live performance, and multi-media works. Their inaugural production, a short film version of the closing performance titled ...