Kelley Jo Burke

Pronouns: She/Her

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Website: http://bigocean.ca/


Photographer: Free use, Regina Globe Theatre

Kelley Jo Burke is a crip playwright and creative nonfiction writer/producer living as a settler on Treaty Four territory (Regina, SK). Her plays include the award-winning Rigby, Greensleep: a fairytale for the end of days, The Curst, Us created with Jeff Straker for which she received a Tom Hendry award, The Selkie Wife and Charming and Rose: True Love. Her many CBC’s radio IDEAS documentaries have been heard all over the world. Recent books include Wreck: A Very Anxious Memoir, and Ducks on the Moon: A Parent Meets Autism. She teaches, edits, dramaturges, narrates audiobooks, and was a host/producer for CBC Radio for 13 years. She has received multiple arts awards, including four City of Regina Writing Awards and the Saskatchewan Lieutenant-Governor’s award for arts leadership.

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