Tara Beagan
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Tara Beagan | |
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| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Occupations | Playwright, actress |
Tara Beagan (born December 20, 1975) is a Nlakaʼpamux playwright and actress from Calgary, Alberta, Canada,[1] most noted as the winner of the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre in 2020.[2]
She won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Independent Theatre in 2005 for Thy Neighbour's Wife,[3] for which she was also a nominee for Outstanding Performance by a Female, Independent Theatre.[4] In 2006, she acted in Dead Dog in the City, Thomas King's revival of his earlier radio comedy series The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour.[1]
In 2009, she received a Dora nomination for Outstanding New Play, Independent Theatre for Miss Julie: Sheh'mah.[5] In 2010, she premiered The Woods, a historical play set in 1640 which was part of The Mill series with plays by Damien Atkins, Hannah Moscovitch, and Matthew MacFadzean.[6]
From 2011 to 2013, she served as artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts.[1] She subsequently founded the theatre company Article 11 with Andy Moro.[7]
Her plays have included Jesus Chrysler,[8] Free As Injuns,[9] Reckoning,[10] Dreary and Izzy,[11] Honour Beat,[12] Deer Woman,[13] and The Ministry of Grace.[14]
She won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2025 Governor General's Awards for Rise, Red River.[15] She was also nominated in the same year for The Ministry of Grace, one of the first times in the entire history of the award that a writer received two separate nominations for different plays in the same year, rather than a single joint nomination for a multi-play anthology volume.[16]
