Marie clements biography

Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962) is a.
Métis playwright, actor, and artistic director, Marie Clements was born in 1962 in Vancouver and lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.
Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962) is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter.

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Clements, Marie

Marie Clements

Métis playwright, actor, and artistic director, Marie Clements was born in 1962 in Vancouver and lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. She studied journalism at Mount Royal College in Calgary, and during the 1980s she worked as a radio news reporter. She has written thirteen plays, including Age of Iron, Now look what you made me do, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, Urban Tattoo, and Copper Thunderbird.

Her solo show, Urban Tattoo is about a young Métis woman in the 1940s who adopts the persona of Hollywood pin-up girl Jane Russell as she embarks on a journey from a small town in the Northwest Territories to the bright lights of Edmonton. The production toured across Canada and the United States between 1999 and 2003.

The Unnatural and Accidental Women (1997) focuses on serial killings of Native women in Vancouver's downtown eastside between 1965 and 1987, all ruled by the coroner and reported in the press to be "unnatural and accidental." Using a wide range of forms and media, the play critiques state apathy to racial

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Marie Clements facts for kids

Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962) is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter. She was the founding artistic director of Urban Ink Productions, and is currently co-artistic director of Red Diva Projects, and director of her new film company Working Pajama Lab Entertainment. Clements lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. As a writer she has worked in a variety of media including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio and television.

Early life

Clements was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Early in her life she studied dance, speech, singing, piano, and music, but she dreamed of being a foreign correspondent. She studied journalism at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.

Career

During the 1980s, Clements worked as a radio news reporter and is still a freelance contributor to CBC radio. She has also worked in the writing department of the television series Da Vinci's Inquest which had a plot line similar to The Unnatural and Accidental Women which is based on the murders of several I

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Marie E. Clements, MD

I am a child neurology resident at Cincinnati Children’s, and interacting with the children is often the highlight of my day. I love kids’ honesty and enthusiasm, the way they think and their excitement at the simplest of things.

When I was thirteen years old, I became fascinated with the brain. So much was known about how the rest of our body works — the heart, muscles and bones — but relatively little was known about the brain. How is everything we feel, think, see and hear created by tiny molecules being released by one cell and taken up by the next? I was fascinated and eager to learn more.

I knew my career should blend my two passions: studying neuroscience and working with children. Unfortunately, first-grade neuroscience teachers are not exactly in high demand. Luckily, my interests coalesce perfectly into a career as a pediatric neurologist.

One of the most common responses I receive when I share my career choice is some variation of “child neurology is too sad.” Child neurology can be sad and sometimes child