photo of Brandon Oakes in The Ministry of Grace workshop by Juan Camilo Palacio
for ARTICLE 11, 2014.

“Well, what you’ve done is… you’ve made the play better than it is.” Edward Bond
~ after seeing Beagan-directed staged reading of his Red, Black and Ignorant for the Sheep No Wool Bond Festival, Toronto, 2012. Native Earth production.

 

FILM
November 2021 The Road to HASALALA DANXALAX, a documentary film in partnership with UBC. co-director with Andy Moro, artistic direction and programming Marion Newman
July 2022 RECKONING feature film, co-director with Andy Moro 

THEATRE
April 2023 The Ministry of Grace with Making Treaty 7
March & May 2022 The Herd at Citadel and Tarragon
April 2016 Reckoning, ARTICLE 11, at the Theatre Centre
January 2016 Dreary and Izzy at Theatre Northwest.
September 2013 and March 2014  Dreary and Izzy for Western Canada Theatre/Persephone/Gateway/Sask Native Theatre
February 2014.  B.C. tour of In Spirit through Native Earth
February 2011 to December 2013   Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts
August 2012    Medicine Boy by Waawaate Fobister, Anishnaabe Theatre Performance, SummerWorks Festival.
May 2012    Untold by Cole Alvis and Donna Michelle St. Bernard, NEPA. Co-director with Cole Alvis.
Nov/Dec 2008        A Very Polite Genocide by Melanie J. Murray,  Assistant Director to Yvette Nolan. A Native Earth production.             Apprenticehsip funded by the OAC’s ACD program
August 2008    Foundlings, Director/writer, halfbreed productions, SummerWorks Festival and imagineNATIVE festival, October 2010
Sept/Oct 2007     The Fort at York, co-director/head writer, Crate Productions

MULTI-DISC – Live and Broadcast
June 2022 APTN’s Indigenous Day Live to broadcast event: “Our Lands” featuring all female and non-binary artists. Winnipeg. The Forks outdoor stage. Artistic Directors ARTICLE 11.
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