Valerie Sing Turner
Preferred Name: Valerie Sing Turner
Pronouns: She/Her
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Website: https://www.VisceralVisions.com
Originally from Victoria, BC, and based in Vancouver, Valerie Sing Turner is a multidisciplinary artist who performs, writes, directs, dramaturges, and produces. Her works for the stage include the interdisciplinary Confessions of the Other Woman; the comic chamber opera Did I Just Say That? for soprano and mezzo soprano; and In the Shadow of the Mountains, a drama for 10 actors centering three generations of an interracial family (Indigenous, Chinese-Canadian, and Japanese-Canadian). A recipient of the Enbridge playRites Award for Emerging Canadian Playwright, John Moffat + Larry Lillo Prize, UBCP/ACTRA’s International Women’s Day Award, and a 2022 BC Lieutenant Governor’s Platinum Jubilee Arts & Music Award in recognition of her “exceptional contributions to the arts”, Valerie is Co-Director/Creative Lead for CultureBrew.Art, a digital platform featuring a Canada-wide searchable database of Indigenous and racialized artists working in the performing, literary, media, and visual arts, and the founder/Co-Artistic Producer of Visceral Visions.
