Artistic Director
Alanis King
Alanis King has been the Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts since
September 2000. Alanis was the past Festival Director for the Aboriginal Voices Festival
for two years in Toronto assisting the content development and media projects Buffalo
Tracks for APTN and was a presenting member to the CRTC for the licensing and awarding
of Aboriginal Voices Radio 106.5 FM Toronto, Canada. She likes to be involved in
community radio contributing her time to volunteer for artists to have their works aired.
She began working in theatre in 1986. Her short-list of playwright credits include:
The Daphne Odjig Art Show, Odeh Gamig Kwewak (aka. The Heart Dwellers), If Jesus Met
Nanabush, The Tommy Prince Story and The Manitoulin Incident. Alanis is the past
Artistic Director of De-Ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group and the Three Fires Music Festival in her
home community of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. Alanis completed an eight week
intensive program at New York Film Academy and at George Brown College in Toronto where she
was writing her first feature length screenplay. Her short film From The Bush To Broadway
was shot in New York City and performed in Ojibwe. The film then went on to be screened at
The Aboriginal Voices Festival and the ImagiNative Media Arts Festival.
Alanis King is the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from the National Theatre School
of Canada.
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