Jessica Carmichael (she/her) is an artist of mixed Abénaki/Euro heritage. She specializes in directing, acting, dramaturgy and creation. Amidst her professional creative research practice, Jessica continues to hold an appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Theatre Department of Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Molian/Montréal. Jessica has contributed to a variety of artistic roles over the years, notably as Artistic Director of Carousel Players for three seasons, and as an artistic associate with Native Earth Performing Arts, for whom she was program director of their creators’ unit Animikiig. Jessica is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada (Acting), the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art/Kings College London (MA Text & Performance Studies with distinction), the University of Alberta (MFA Directing with distinction), and studied with the Stratford Festival’s Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction (2014, 2016). In 2021 Jessica directed Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters at the Stratford Festival of Canada and completed audio direction of four new plays presented by Native Earth and Nightwood Theatre as part of a New Harlem Production’s commission Embodying Power and Place, which was a response to the 2019 Missing and Murdered Women and Girls commission report.