Saturday, November 22, 2025
7:30 PM | Aki Studio
Presentations:
Don’t Bring Him Back by Cameron sinkʷə Fraser-Monroe
Squeaky by Tara Beagan
Followed by:
Conversation: Breaking Molds
W38 Creators connect and chat about navigating storytelling from a multidisciplinary lens and "breaking molds" in creative processes, inspired by the wide array of artistic backgrounds of our W38 artists.
Presentation
Don’t Bring Him Back
by Cameron sinkʷə Fraser-Monroe
An hour before sunset, John and Samson are loading a canoe. They set off and pass the new mill and the flooded traditional village site on which it sits. Samson reveals that he knows why they are out fishing: their Chichia has told John to kill him. Samson tries to convince John that he didn’t get a fair trial. They negotiate: maybe he can let him go; after all, the wording was a bit vague.
Creator: Cameron sinkʷə Fraser-Monroe (Tla'amin First Nation)
Mentor: Keith Barker
Performers:
Isaiah Kakepteum
Peter Robinson
Cameron sinkʷə Fraser-Monroe, Creator
Cameron Fraser-Monroe is a member of the Tla'amin First Nation. He was privileged to train with World Champion Hoop Dancer Dallas Arcand and studied Grass Dance with Elder Mollie Bono.
Since graduating from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, he has performed with many companies across Turtle Island from Dancers of Damelahamid to the RWB, and from Jacob’s Pillow to Kia Mau Festival in New Zealand.
As a choreographer Cameron has received commissions from the National Ballet of Canada, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Fall for Dance Festival NYC, Ballet Kelowna, Whim W’Him Seattle, and both PULSE and Indigenous Day Live! on APTN. He continues to practice and present Hoop Dance.
Cameron is the Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Summer Dance Collective making dance more accessible in downtown Winnipeg. During the 25/26 Season, Cameron is Associate Artist at Ballet Kelowna, and the Artist-in-Residence at L’École Nationale de Théâtre/National Theatre School of Canada."
Keith Barker, Mentor
Keith Barker is a Métis artist from Northwestern Ontario and the Director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program at the Stratford Festival. In 2023, Keith was a recipient of the Johanna Metcalf Prize, and recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in 2021. In 2020 he received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Carol Bolt Award. Keith was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama in 2018 for his play, This Is How We Got Here. He received a SAT Award for Achievement in Playwriting for his play, The Hours That Remain, as well as a Yukon Arts Award for Best Art for Social Change. In 2025 Keith performed his one man show, Raised by Women at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg Manitoba, and directed Yvette Nolan’s The Art of War at the Stratford Festival.
Presentation
Squeaky
by Tara Beagan
Squeaky is a dramatic comedy exploring belonging, the impact of media, and the ubiquity of true crime by drawing parallels between each Trudeau prime ministerial era. Nanette Susan Cromme grew up in a series of foster homes, always lacking a sense of belonging. Of great intelligence and few social skills, she inserts herself into any conversation within earshot, swiftly making no friends at all.
Creator: Tara Beagan (Ntlaka’pamux)
Mentor: Anand Rajaram
Performers:
Anand Rajaram
Tara Sky
Other Showings: November 21
Tara Beagan, Creator
Tara Beagan is a proud Ntlaka’pamux and Irish “Canadian” halfbreed. She is cofounder & codirector of ARTICLE 11 with Andy Moro. Eight of her 37 plays are published. One won a Dora Award. In 2020, Honour Beat won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama. She has worked at NEPA in many capacities, including community liaison, co-artistic associate and artistic director. Beagan was the 2020 laureate of the Siminovitch Prize for theatre, playwriting."
Anand Rajaram, Mentor
Anand is an award-winning actor, improviser, playwright, director, musician, teacher & puppeteer. He has performed at The Belfry Theatre, Canadian Stage, Second City, Stratford, VideoCabaret, and others. He is an accomplished film and tv performer as well as voiceover artist for video games and cartoons. He recently directed As You Like It for Canadian Stage's Dream in High Park, Low Pay Don't Pay at George Brown theatre school, and 3 audiobooks with Penguin Audio (Swimming in the Monsoons and Mansions on the Moon by Shyam Selvadurai, and Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality by Lindsay Wong), and narrated novels, including Kill The Mall by Pasha Malla and Tell It To The Trees by Anita Rau Badami. He is artistic director of VideoCabaret, artistic director of @N@f@N@ and creates digital content with Cardboard Dreams. Social media: HRH Anand Rajaram.