Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a Toronto-based emcee, playwright, and arts administrator. Notable works for the stage include They Say He Fell, A Man A Fish, Cake, The House You Build, Salome’s Clothes, and Gas Girls. Her work has been recognized with a SATAward nomination, the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition, the Enbridge playRites Award, a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and two nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award.
Yvette Nolan is a playwright, dramaturg, and director. She has written several plays, including Annie Mae’s Movement, Job’s Wife, and The Unplugging, and is co-editor of Refractions: Solo. 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. She divides her time between Saskatoon and Toronto.