Artist spotlight: Yolanda Bonnell
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1 min readOct 8, 2017
Yolanda Bonnell is a performer and playwright of Ojibwe and South Asian descent, from Fort William First Nation Indian Reserve in Thunder Bay, ON. She was part of Factory Theatre’s The Foundry, a creation program for new career writers, where her play, Scanner was developed.
Her one woman physical theatre show bug, premiered at Native Earth’s Weesageechak Begins to Dance 28 and at the 37th annual Rhubarb Festival in 2016 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and then went on to have a workshop residency at Summerworks 2016.
Yolanda was part of the Stratford Festival’s 2017 season appearing in The Breathing Hole and Treasure Island.
