Patti Shaughnessy

Co-founder and Artistic Producer of the O’Kaadenigan Wiingashk (OKW) Collective in Peterborough, Ontario. OKW’s activities have included community arts events, music concerts, multidisciplinary festivals, and workshops (such as Mnoominkewin: The Art of Wild Ricing, a gathering on the shores of Curve Lake First Nation, and the Ode’min Giizis Festival in Peterborough, ON), and stage works (including both local productions and a slate of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland).  Patti Shaughnessy has toured nationally and internationally as an actor, and directed productions both in Canada and at the National Theatre of Greenland, where she has been guest director, instructor, and dramaturg since 2012. Patti is Mchi Saagig Nishnaabe from Curve Lake First Nation #35 or Wshkigimong, and a descendent of Irish settlers who arrived in the Kawartha Lakes region circa 1825.