Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director, and dramaturg. Her works include the play The Unplugging, the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit, and Breathing Space for CCTA. She co-created, with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight, the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt, about relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. From 2003-2011, she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts. Her book, Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015.