Michaela Washburn is a proud Métis artist of Cree, French, Irish and English ancestry. Hailing from Leduc, Alberta, and now based in North Bay, Ontario, Michaela feels incredibly blessed to be grounded in ceremony and community based arts in her work with Aanmitaagzi and Big Medicine Studio. An award winning actor, Washburn also has multiple nominations. Most notably, for the Ontario Arts Council’s Indigenous Arts Award and the K. M. Hunter Artist Award for Theatre. She has performed internationally at festivals and theatres in Wales, Aruba and across Canada and the United States.

Currently, Michaela feels very proud of the ongoing success and national tour of the new award winning play she co -wrote with Joelle Peters and Carrie Costello, titled “Frozen River”, which will be published by Playwrights Canada Press in the spring of 2024.