Yvette Nolan is a playwright, dramaturg and director. She has written several plays, including Annie Mae's Movement, BLADE and Job's Wife. She has been writer-in-residence at Brandon University, Mount Royal College and the Saskatoon Public Library, as well as playwright-in-residence at the National Arts Centre. Born in Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father and raised in Manitoba, Yvette lived in the Yukon and Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto where she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts from 2003 to 2011.