Daniel David Moses

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Daniel David Moses (born February 18, 1952) is a First Nations poet and playwright from Canada.

Moses, of Delaware descent, was born at Ohsweken, Ontario, and raised on a farm on the Six Nations of the Grand River. He has an Honours BA from York University and a MFA from the University of British Columbia. Moses was the president of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto, Ontario for 7 years. In 2003, Moses joined the department of drama at Queen's University as an assistant professor.

He has worked as an independent artist since 1979 as a poet, playwright, dramaturge, editor, essayist, teacher, and writer-in-residence with institutions as varied as Theatre Passe Muraille, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Theatre Kingston, the University of British Columbia, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Windsor, the University of Toronto, the Sage Hill Writing Experience, McMaster University and Concordia University. He was co-founder (with Lenore Keeshig-Tobias and Tomson Highway) of the Committee to Re-establish the Trickster (in 1987).

He currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

[edit] Awards

In 1990 Moses won the Canadian National Playwrighting Competition, one act category, First Prize for The Dreaming Beauty. He was a finalist for the Governor General Award for Drama' in 1991 for Coyote City. In 1994 he won the Du Maurier One Act Playwrighting Competition at the New Play Centre for The Moon and Dead Indians. In 1996 he received the James Buller Award for Aboriginal Theatre Excellence - Playwright of the Year award for The Indian Medicine Shows. He was awarded the Harbourfront International Authors Festival Prize and the Harold Award in 2001. in 2003 he was named to a Chalmers Arts Fellowship and from 2003 -06 he was a Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Drama at Queen’s University, Kingston ON. He was also nominated to the short-list for the 2005 Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre (Playwright).

[edit] Works

Delicate Bodies, blewointment press, 1980
The White Line: Poems, Fifth House Publishers, 1990
Coyote City: A Play in Two Acts, Williams-Wallace, 1990 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
The Dreaming Beauty, (copyscript) Playwrights Union of Canada, 1990 (won 1990 Theatre Canada's National Playwrighting Competition)
Big Buck City, (copyscript) Playwrights Union, 1990, 2nd edition, Exile Editions, 1998
Belle Fille de l'Aurore, (copyscript) Playwrights Union of Canada, 1991.
Hotel Centrale, Rotterdam, University Of British Columbia, 1992
Almighty Voice and His Wife: A Play in Two Acts, Williams-Wallace, 1992
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, (Editor with Terry Goldie), Oxford University Press (Toronto, Ontario), 1992, 2nd edition, 1998.
Kyotopolis: A Play in Two Acts, (copyscript) Playwrights Union of Canada, 1993.
The Moon and Dead Indians - 1994 (won 1994 Du Maurier One Act Playwrighting Competition)
City of Shadows: Necropolite!, (copyscript) Playwrights Union of Canada, 1995.
The Indian Medicine Shows, Exile Editions, 1995 (won 1996 James Buller Award for Aboriginal Theatre Excellence - Playwright of the Year)

Brébeuf's Ghost, (copyscript) Playwrights Union of Canada,, 1996, 2nd edition, Exile Editions
The Witch of Niagara: A Confabulation in One Act, (copyscript) Playwrights Union of Canada, 1998.
Sixteen Jesuses, Poems, Exile Editions, 2000
Songs of Love and Medicine, two one act plays, The Ballad of Burnt Ella & A Song of the Tall Grass, 2005
Pursued by a Bear: Talks, Monologues and Tales, Exile Editions, 2005