Mentor + Workshop Leader
Carmen Alvis (she\her) is a Two-Spirit Turtle Mountain Michif (Métis) artist based in Tkarón:to with Chippewa, Irish & English ancestors. She is one of the leaders of lemonTree creations, manidoons collective, and AdHoc Assembly, and is on the board of the Dancers Of Damelahamid. Carmen has created and toured queer and Indigenous performance across Turtle Island (North America) including venues in Coast Salish territory, Mi’kma’ki, and Treaty 1, 3, 6 & 7 territories.
Recently, she directed Conjugal by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre, & Performance Studies, Salt Baby by Falen Johnson (Theatre Aquarius), a digital presentation of Toka by Indrit Kasapi (lemonTree creations & Theatre Passe Muraille), codirected with Yvette Nolan Three Fingers Back by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (lemonTree creations & Tarragon Theatre), and performed in You Used To Call Me Marie by Tai Amy Grauman (Savage Society, The Cultch & NAC Indigenous Theatre). Next: Carmen performs in The Eighth Fire: Parts I & II by Yolanda Bonnell (Animikii Creations).