Renae Morriseau is a Cree and Saulteaux award-winning producer, writer and director from the Treaty 1 Territory on the lands known as Manitoba. Since the start of her career, Renae Morriseau has worked individually and collectively in Indigenous stories in music, theatre, film, and television. Much of her work is about community engaged art; art created with, for, and about the hopes of a good future for Indigenous people on their lands and in the cities of Turtle Island.
Many will recognize her from her role in the CBC television series North of 60, but her contributions to the storytelling craft extend far beyond. Morriseau served as Aboriginal Storyteller at the Vancouver Public Library and directed Down2Earth, an APTN TV series on green-energy developments and sustainability projects in Maori (New Zealand) and First Nations (Canada) communities. Her community-building projects include the winter outdoor production Contest of the Winds with Caravan Farm Theatre, the community play Tuwitames with Splatsin Language Program (Secwepemc Nation)/Runaway Moon Theatre, and co-writing In the Heart of a City: The Downtown Eastside Community Play and Storyweaving with Vancouver Moving Theatre. In 2015, she received the City of Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for community engaged arts for her work cultivating social justice and inclusiveness through theatre and music. Morriseau is also a talented musician with the Indigenous women's hand-drumming group, M'Girl, who toured in New Zealand and Germany.
She continues to work with First Nation communities in B.C. and Manitoba to share stories of resilience, healing and the importance of Indigenous language and cultural worldview. She currently instructs Indigenous Film Studies at Capilano University.