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Taylor, Drew Hayden

Drew Hayden Taylor

Ojibway playwright, novelist, and essayist born at the Curve Lake First Nation, Ontario in 1962, where he now lives. Drew Hayden Taylors writings are a significant part of the Indigenous cultural renaissance which has been gathering momentum since the 1980s. Humour figures in all Taylors work, eliciting laughter edged with disturbing awareness of stereotypes being exploded and bitter truths being given a very thin sugar coating.

He first worked in radio and television, but since 1989 has been a primarily a playwright. He began writing plays under the mentorship of director Larry Lewis and in close association with the First Nations Theatre company, the De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig Theatre Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

His first play, Toronto at Dreamers Rock (premiered at Sheshegwaning Reserve, Ontario, 1989, directed by Larry Lewis), a play for young audiences, is about three Ojibway youths, one from the past, one from the present, and one from the future, who meet at a site of vision quests. There they struggle with pressing issues of identi

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During the last thirty years of his career, Drew Hayden Taylor has done many things, most of which he is proud of.

An Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario, he has worn many hats in his literary career, from performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., to being Artistic Director of Canada’s premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts. He has been an award-winning playwright, a journalist/columnist (appearing regularly in several Canadian newspapers and magazines), short-story writer, novelist, television scriptwriter, and has worked on numerous documentaries exploring the Native experience. Most notably as a filmmaker, he wrote and directed REDSKINS, TRICKSTERS AND PUPPY STEW, a documentary on Native humour for the National Film Board of Canada, and for CBC, co-created SEARCHING FOR WINNITOU, an exploration of Germany’s fascination with North American Indigenous culture. 2 years later he followed it up with the documentary COTTAGERS AND INDIANS, about Indigenous/non-Indigenous conflicts over land and water issues. Most

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Drew Hayden Taylor

Canadian playwright, author and journalist

Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, author and journalist.

Life and career

Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is of both Ojibwe and white ancestry. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Because I am half Ojibway half Caucasian, we will be called the occasions. And of course, since I’m founding the new nation, I will be a special occasion."^[1] He also mused in a Globe and Mail essay: "Fighting over status/non-status, Métis, skin colour etc., only increases the sense of dysfunction in our community."^[2]

He writes about First Nations culture and has also been a frequent contributor to various magazines including This Magazine. His writing includes plays, short stories, essays, newspaper columns and film and television work. In 2004 he was appointed to the Ontario Ministry of Culture Advisory Committee.

As well as his writing, Taylor has been the artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts, and has taught a