Yolanda Bonnell
Yolanda Bonnell (They/She) is a Queer, 2 Spirit Anishinaabe-Ojibwe, South Asian mixed-race storyteller. Hailing from Fort William First Nation, Ontario their arts practice is now based in Tkarón:to. In 2020, Yolanda’s four-time Dora nominated solo piece bug was remounted at Theatre Passe Muraille while the published play was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award. She has also won the Playwright’s Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Drama Award for the play, My Sister’s Rage. Yolanda, who has just completed her first full length young adult novel, proudly bases her arts practice in Anishinaabe methodologies, working towards disability justice in theatre.