Darla Contois is a Cree-Salteaux performer and playwright. She graduated from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre’s training program in 2014, attended David Smukler’s National Voice Intensive and premiered her solo show White Man’s Indian at @summerworksto 2017 in Toronto, where she was awarded the Emerging Artist Award. Darla has since been living and working professionally in her home territory Treaty One; facilitating arts/storytelling workshops, mentoring Indigenous youth, acting (including Happy Place at PTE), writing and starting a family.