TAI AMY GRAUMAN

BIOGRAPHY

Tai Amy Grauman is Métis, Cree and Haudenosaunee from Ardrossan, Alberta.  She is an actor, playwright and emerging director.  Tai recently received the Métis Nation of Alberta's award for "Outstanding Youth of 2020" for the work she is doing to unravel the stories of Métis women in Treaty 6. She also received the Jessie Richardson award for most promising newcomer in 2018 as well as Vancouver's Mayor's Emerging Theatre Artist of 2015, nominated by Margo Kane.  Tai is an artistic associate at Savage Society, through which she has been developing her play "You used to call me Marie...". Tai is working on commissions with Nightswimming "Wiwimaw", Axis theatre “Where did all the buffalo go…” and the Arts Club "My Father is the greatest man in the world".   Selected Acting Credits include: Honour Beat (The Grand theatre), Thanks For Giving (Arts Club) and Battle of the Birds (Savage Society).   Recent directing credits include: Pull Fest (Speakeasy theatre) and the assistant direction of The Taming of the Shrew (Bard on the Beach). Upcoming: Tai will be at The Banff Centre's Indigenous Playwrights Circle and the Banff Playwrights lab working on the Michif and Cree language in her play "You used to call me Marie...".  Tai will also be playing Vanessa Brokenhorn in "The Herd" at Persephone theatre, Tarragon theatre and the National Arts Centre.