Kevin Loring facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Kevin Loring
|
|
|---|---|
Loring in 2024
|
|
| Born | November 24, 1974 Lytton, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | playwright, actor |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2003–present |
| Notable works | Where the Blood Mixes |
Kevin Loring is a talented Canadian playwright and actor. He was born on November 24, 1974. He is well-known for his amazing plays and acting roles.
Kevin has won many important awards for his writing. His play Where the Blood Mixes won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama in 2009. This is one of Canada's biggest awards for writers! He also won the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition and a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for the same play. Another play, Thanks for Giving, was also nominated for a Governor General's Award. In 2021, he received a special honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa.
Contents
Kevin Loring's Acting Career
Kevin Loring is also a successful actor. You might have seen him in TV shows like Da Vinci's Inquest, Arctic Air, and Health Nutz. He also acted in the movie Pathfinder.
On stage, he has played many different characters. He was in plays like Saint Carmen of the Main and The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. He even played Edmund in a special all-First Nations version of William Shakespeare's King Lear. This play was performed at the National Arts Centre in 2012. Kevin also helped write and produce a documentary called War: The Untold Story in 2009.
Early Life and Cultural Projects
Kevin Loring is from the Nlaka'pamux people. His community is the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia. He started his studies at Cariboo College, which is now called Thompson Rivers University (TRU). He studied arts there in 1997.
In 2015, TRU honored Kevin as a distinguished alumni. They gave him the Arts and Culture Award. This was to celebrate his big impact on Canadian arts. He was recognized as a playwright, actor, teacher, and mentor. After that, he studied theatre at the famous Studio 58 program until 2000.
In 2017, Kevin received the REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award. This award celebrates Indigenous Canadian artists.
Kevin also created the Songs of the Land Project]. He worked with five groups in his home community. This project helped bring old Nlakap’amux songs and stories back to life. These songs were recorded a long time ago by an anthropologist named James Teit. This project inspired two plays: The Battle of the Birds (2015) and The Boy Who Was Abandoned (2016).
Leading Indigenous Theatre
On June 15, 2017, Kevin Loring became the first artistic director for Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa. This was a very important role. It meant he would help bring Indigenous stories and plays to a wider audience.
The first play for this new theatre was “The Unnatural and Accidental Women”. It was written by Métis playwright Marie Clements. It opened on September 11, 2019.
Kevin Loring's Published Works
Here are some of the books and plays Kevin Loring has written:
- Where the Blood Mixes (Talonbooks, 2009)
- Native Americans: A Visual Exploration [introduction only] (Annick Press, 2013), by Shaker Paleja
- Thanks for Giving (Talonbooks, 2019)
- Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer: A Trickster Land Claim Fable (Talonbooks, 2022)
- Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire (Penguin Random House Canada, 2024)
