Romeo and Juliet: a Metis Love Story
In development between Tai Amy Grauman and Lois Anderson
Romeo and Juliet: a Metis Love Story is a love story that crosses time between an apartment in Edmonton 2023 and Fort Edmonton in the 1800’s, on the cusp of the Riel Rebellion. Julia Callihoo travels through time with her neighbor Susan, a nursing student at Edmonton General, pulled between love for her people and love for a man.
Tai Amy Grauman (MFA) is Métis Cree from Ardrossan Alberta. Her family comes from a community in Alberta formerly known as St. Paul des Métis in Alberta as well as Winter Saskatchewan. Tai received the Jessie Richardson Award for most promising newcomer in 2017. She was also Vancouver’s Mayor’s Emerging Theatre Artist of 2015, nominated by Margo Kane. Her play Wiwimaw has been commissioned by Nightswimming. Tai’s play Where Have All the Buffalo Gone was produced by Axis Theatre, 2024. Tai and Lois have worked as a directing team on Shrew at Bard on the Beach. This past year Tai’s play You used to call me Marie was produced by Savage Society and NAC Indigenous, in both Vancouver and Ottawa, directed by Lois. On September 15th 2023, Tai was elevated as the first Provincial Women’s Representative of the Otipemisiwak Metis Government within Alberta.
