LIVE ON STAGE IN 2009 * THEATRE PRODUCTION...

ALMIGHTY VOICE AND HIS WIFE MAR 28-APR 12/09

Native Earth Performing Arts presents Daniel's seminal play about the legendary 19th century Saskatchewan Cree, Almighty Voice, as both accidental martyr and icon at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille, Mainspace. Dir. Michael Greyeyes. Almighty Voice was first produced by the Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa in 1991. It remains topical and challenging today! Visit www.nativeearth.ca for details. Hear the buzz? ...is London calling?

Reviewed in THEATRUM (February/March 1992) by Eleanor Crowder ‘It’s hard to imagine a follow-up to the tragic reverberations of the death scene (in the first act). So Moses does the unimaginable and drops us into a nightmare black and white replay of the Whites and Indians story…..it tells a white audience that there are levels of anger and pain here not readily accessible to their understanding……This production left me with moments to resonate for some time to come.’

EVENTS...

BOOK LAUNCH KYOTOPOLIS OCT.21/08

AT DORA KEOUGH, TORONTO ON

Exile Publications hosts a book launch for Daniel's play Kyotopolis on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at the Dora Keough Pub, 141 Danforth Avenue at 7:30pm.

LUMINATO 'LITERARY CABARET AT THE DRAKE'- JUNE 2008

As part of Luminato, Toronto's Festival of Arts and Creativity, Daniel took part in Diaspora Dialogues: Launch of TOK, Book 3, an anthology of new fiction, poetry and drama that celebrates the city's richly diverse literary communities. He gave a premiere reading of a new poem commissioned for the event with other star performers Alissa York, Judy Fong Bates, Shauntay Grant and Yvette Nolan. The reading took place at The Drake Hotel Underground.

POETRY SALON * KINGSTON, ON

Daniel David Moses, along with Helen Humphreys, Carolyn Smart and Paul Kelley, read as part of a Poetry Salon, sponsored by the Kingston Arts Council in the Wilson Room of the Kingston Central Public Library. May 2008.

Aazhoodena:THE PLACE OF THE HEART READING

Aazhoodena:The Place of the Heart, a co-creation of Daniel David Moses and David McLaren, inspired by the Dudley George incident, had a workshop reading sponsored by Native Earth Performing Arts. May 2008, Palmerston Library Theatre, Toronto. This new creation received funding support from the Ontario Arts Council.

LANNAN FOUNDATION WRITER-IN-REZ, SANTA FE NM- FEB 2008

Daniel was the Lannan Foundation Writer-In-Residence at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM in February 2008. He consulted with student writers as well as delivered a presentation of his work. www.iaiancad.org .

NATIVE THEATER FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK CITY - DECEMBER 2007

Daniel David Moses was a participating artist at The Native Theater Festival held at The Public Theater, NYC, December 2007. The festival included readings of In a World Created by a Drunken God by Drew Hayden Taylor, Salvage by Diane Glancy, A Stray Dog by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. and Wings of the Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light by Joy Harjo and a staging of Tales of an Urban Indian by, and featuring, Darrell Dennis.

THE INDIAN MEDICINE SHOWS IN PRODUCTION NOVEMBER 2007

The Theatre Studies Program at University of Guelph produced The Indian Medicine Shows at the George Luscombe Theatre, University of Guelph, November 2007. Directed by Ric Knowles, Designed by Allan Watts.

CANADIAN ABORIGINAL LITERARY FESTIVAL OCTOBER 2007 Brandon University (Manitoba CAN) invited Daniel David Moses to be one of four featured writers reading from their work at Lorne Watson Hall. The Festival invited 25 'spectacularly talented' Aboriginal and Métis writers from across Canada for readings, performances and participation in workshop and panel discussions.

RECENT PUBLICATION RELEASES...

EXILE PUBLICATIONS RELEASES PLAYWRIGHT'S KYOTOPOLIS

 See details above in Events listing.

EXILE PUBLISHES PLAYWRIGHT'S A SONG OF THE TALL GRASS

A Song of the Tall Grass, a play in one act, pages 89-133, Exile, the Literary Quarterly, Volume 31, No.2, Toronto, On., Autumn 2007.

CZECH COLLABORATION= BOTAFOGO CD RELEASE

The Prague connection continues with the 2007 CD release of Jan Jirán & BOTAFOGO that includes Paper, lyrics by Daniel set to a bossa nova beat. Most of the songs originated in Jirán's authentic diary entries - texts in the Ojibwa language sprung up as a result of their work on The Prague-Manitoulin-Toronto Project (see Production History, Myths That Unite Us to hear the English version of Paper). Discover more at www.botafogo.cz in English translation

RELEASE OF CZECH ANTHOLOGY-PRAGUE MAY 2007

          WAITING FOR COYOTE: CANADIAN ABORIGINAL DRAMA

Daniel is one of six First Nations Canadian playwrights whose work is included in translations by Klara Kolinska in an anthology launched in Prague, Czech Republic in May 2007. Daniel's Governor General's Award Finalist Coyote City is included in "Waiting for Coyote: Canadian Aboriginal Drama", for which he also wrote a foreword. The other playwrights are Shirley Cheechoo, Marie Clements, Tomson Highway, Yvette Nolan and Drew Hayden Taylor.

(Vetrne Mlyny 2007) ISBN 978-80-86907-38-3

APPOINTMENTS & WORKS IN PROGRESS...

DANIEL IS NOMINATED FOR 2008 SIMINOVITCH PRIZE!

Yes, it is true...Daniel has been nominated in the 'long-list' for Canada's richest award in theatre, the 2008 Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre (Playwright) along with 25 other highly acclaimed Canadian playwrights. The results are announced in October...stay tuned!

NEW SCRIPT IN DEVELOPMENT -JULY 2008

CRAZY DAVE GOES TO TOWN

Commissioned by the Stratford Theatre Festival in 2006, they are sponsoring a second script development workshop of Crazy Dave Goes To Town, based on the stunning memoir by Ojibway writer, Basil Johnston, directed by Colin Taylor with a stellar cast including Herbie Barnes, Lorne Cardinal, Graham Greene, Monique Moijca and Michelle St. John.

Playwrights Canada Press will publish Staging Coyote's Dream, An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English, Volume 2, edited by Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles, including Moses' The Indian Medicine Shows, play. Release date TBA

EXILE, The Literary Quarterly has appointed Daniel David Moses as a Contributing Editor. Discover this exciting all-Canadian magazine at www.ExileQuarterly.com!

Journey of Peace Tree Planting and Dedication, The Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, ON, August 4, 2005, included Planting a Tree in August, a poem, inscribed on four granite markers at the feet of white pine saplings surrounding a bench to establish a peace garden, in memory of the people of Hiroshima and the students of residential schools, part of a long term collaboration with ElizaBeth Hill and Shelley Niro to explore the Iroquoian traditions of peace in the contemporary world.

A book of essays about the work of Daniel David Moses (Guernica Editions, TBA)