Andréa Ledding


Andréa Ledding is a Canadian writer, poet, and playwright based out of Saskatchewan. Her literary work often focuses on themes of indigeneity, Métis identity, and Canadian history, and incorporates both English, French, Michif and Cree languages.

Career

Dominion, Ledding's first play, opened Toronto's 2012 , and was the inaugural work staged at the Aki Studio Theatre in Toronto. Dominion is a critical commentary on Canada's history of colonization and oppression of Indigenous peoples. The five-person play is set in a home where a couple, representing European colonizers, moves into a home and forces its previous occupants to live in the bathroom. Dominion's first director, Curtis Peeteetuce, described Ledding's work as:
"It’s like a big poem, to be honest. The language is beautiful, it’s fluid, it’s very, very abstract."
In 2013, Ledding received an Master of Fine Arts in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan as part of the university's inaugural MFA class.
Ledding is frequent contributor to the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, and Eagle Feather News, and has also written for Canadian Geographic, a magazine of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Awards

In 2013, Ledding was a nominee for the Lieutenant Governor Arts Award.
In 2016, Ledding was long-listed, short-listed, and won $1000 for three poems in the CBC Literary Prizes for Poetry.
In 2016, Ledding was also shortlisted in Room Magazine’s 2016 poetry contest, judged by Marilyn Dumont.