Edmonton playwright Matt MacKenzie (Métis) is Artistic Producer of Punctuate! Theatre, as well as the founder and an Artistic Associate with Pyretic Productions. In 2018, his play Bears won Doras for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production, was named a co-winner of the Toronto Theatre Critics Outstanding New Canadian Play Award and won the Playwright Guild of Canada’s Carol Bolt National Playwriting Award. This coming April, Matt’s play After the Fire will play at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre, having premiered last January at The Theatre Centre.