A young Indigenous woman smiling at the camera. She is sitting with her elbows propped on her knees and is resting her head on her left hand.

Darla Contois

Darla Contois is a Cree-Saulteaux performer and playwright. She graduated from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre’s professional training program in 2014 and attended David Smukler’s National Voice Intensive. She premiered her solo show White Man’s Indian at Summerworks 2017 in Toronto, where she was awarded the Emerging Artist Award. The War Being Waged, produced by Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange, has been acknowledged by Toronto critic Lynn Slotkin with a Tootsie Award.