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Marie Clements is an award-winning performer, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer and founding artistic director of urban ink productions and fathom labs highway. Her ten plays including Copper Thunderbird, Burning Vision, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, and Urban Tattoo have been presented on some of the most prestigious stages for Canadian and international work including the Festival de Theatre des Ameriques (Urban Tattoo 2001, Burning Vision 2003) in Montreal, and The Magnetic North Festival (Burning Vision 2003 and Copper Thunderbird 2007) in Ottawa, and have garnered awards including 2004 Canada-Japan Award, short listed for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award, Jessie Richardson Awards and a Jack Webster Journalism nomination. As writer and producer her full- length play Copper Thunderbird premiered as a co-production with The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, May 2007 and at The Magnetic North Festival 2007.
As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television. Her film Unnatural and Accidental was invited to premiere at over fifteen film festivals including The MoMa Festival in New York, Toronto Film Festival, The Vancouver Film Festival and The American Indian Film Festival 2006. Currently Unnatural and Accidental has received ten nominations for the prestigious Leo Awards including Best Screenplay. She is currently working on a commission from The North Vancouver Presentation House titled The Edward Curtis Project (awarded the prestigious Cultural Olympiad Award) in collaboration with Brenda Leadlay and Rita Leister, as well as, her multi-platform project titled the red diva project, her play Tombs of the Vanishing Indian and its film version.
This winter, Marie has been selected to be a part of this year's Women in the Director's Chair.
As a producer and director Marie has been involved in the development of over seventy productions of new work across forms and disciplines. Copper Thunderbird was published by Talon Books Fall 2007 and her initiative fathomlabshighway.ca is in its second year. She is a freelance contributor to CBC Radio, and has worked in the writing department of the tv series Davinci's Inquest.
As an actor Marie has performed in over fifty productions on stages across Canada and the U.S. including; The Arts Club Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Rumble Theatre, Factory Theatre, Cahoots Theatre, Belfry Theatre, and The Fire Hall Arts Centre.
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