Darla Contois (Indigenous Artist in Residence, 2023) is a Cree-Salteaux performer and playwright. She graduated from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre's professional training program in 2014, attended David Smukler's National Voice Intensive and premiered her solo show White Man’s Indian at Summerworks 2017 in Toronto where she was awarded the Emerging Artist Award. Her most recent work produced by Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange The War Being Waged, has been acknowledged by Toronto Critic Lynn Slotkin with a Tootsie award.