Celeste Sansregret

Celeste is of Métis/Ukrainian settler descent from Treaty One, Manitoba. Sansregret works as a writer, actor, producer, mentor and senior arts administrator. She made her first stage appearance at age 3, and has worked onstage and backstage, as well as in film and television.

A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre (Prime Time Television) and the University of Winnipeg (Theatre) her writing awards include: a Banff Television Writers’ Fellowship and a Harold Greenberg Award for her feature script, NATURAL JUSTICE, an OAC Playwrights’ Grant for PREDATION with Native Earth Performing Arts, and a CBC Playwrights’ Relief Award to create BLACK WOLF, a 6-part mini -series about an Indigenous judge being blackmailed by a former lover.

Sansregret has toured the country on the national Fringe circuit with two solo shows she starred in and created: WONDERBAR and IN A MAGIC KINGDOM and co-created 5 star hit, BREAST FRIENDS. She recently retired from the CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE, where she served as Managing Director.