Kevin Loring is a member of the Nlakapmux (Thompson) First Nation in Lytton, British Columbia. He is currently artistic director of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre.
As an actor he has performed in numerous plays across Canada including Marie Clements’s Burning Vision and Copper Thunderbird. He also starred in the 2007 feature film Pathfinder, and co-produced and co-hosted the documentary Canyon War: The Untold Story about the 1858 Fraser Canyon War.
He was the recipient of the 2005 City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Theatre Artist, Artist in Residence at The Playhouse Theatre Company in 2006, and iPlaywright in Residence at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, in 2010.
His first play Where the Blood Mixes, won the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script; the Sydney J. Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright; and the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.
