Wolf Cull
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About the Playwright

Cheyenne Scott is a member of the SȾÁUTW̱ First Nation/Norwegian settler descent, and an actor, playwright, and creative producer with a focus on new works. Having learned theatre through a colonial lens, she is working to Indigenize her process through her W̱SÁNEĆ values, land-based methodology, and storytelling. She is a multi Dora Mavor Moore nominated artist for co-creating/performing Now You See Her (Quote Unquote Collective/Nightwood/Why Not Theatre) which was published by Coach House, and for The Home Project (Howland/Native Earth/Soulpepper). Cheyenne was named the protégé of Lori Marchand for the Mallory Gilbert Leadership Award. She is an Artistic Associate for Urban Ink and has developed her administrative craft with The Theatre Centre, and The Paprika Festival.

Cheyenne has taught scene study at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre and has been a guest artist in Indigenous communities across Turtle Island teaching drama in schools with InPath. She was very grateful to be welcomed into these communities while empowering youth to express themselves and tell their own stories. As a performer, Cheyenne is drawn to complex contemporary characters and stories that involve music. Select Acting Credits include: Children of God (Urban Ink/NAC, Citadel/WCT, Segal Centre), The Herd (Citadel/Tarragon), The Last Five Years (Blue Bridge) Joyride (Caravan Farm Theatre), The Drowning Girls (WCT), Mistatim (Red Sky Performance), Trojan Girls and the Outhouse of Atreus (Outside the March/Factory).

About the Play

Wolf Cull is set in the near future on an invented Indigenous territory. A pack of young women share a strange dream that leads them to the hunting grounds. Leader, Rebel, Brawn, Wild Card, and Skeptic discover unusual tracks and must use their skill sets as artists and hunters to uncover the secret of this mysterious creature. The fragile union of the pack is tested as they each struggle with facing their demons. Cheyenne will be solidifying the third draft of this project in residence, pulling from her own experience of hunting with her father and her relationship to the land. How does the creature manifest within and how do we track, hunt, and transform it?