Frances Koncan
Frances Koncan (born 1986) is an Saulteaux-Slovene journalist, theatre director, and playwright from Couchiching First Nation who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her play The Dance-off of Conscious Uncoupling received the 2015 Tom Hendry Award for Best New Comedy. Early life and education
Koncan was born in May of 1986 in Couchiching First Nation. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Manitoba and a master's degree in fine arts in playwriting from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Career
Koncan is an arts reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press. She wrote the play Women of the Fur Trade, zahgidiwin/love, and Flesh-Coloured Crayons. She has worked as assistant director on Seminar (for the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre/Mirvish Productions), The Humans, and A Doll's House, Part 2,  (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), and Stripped Down Anthony & Cleopatra (Shakespeare in the Ruins). Awards and honors
Her theatrical work has won the REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award, the Winnipeg Arts Council's 2017 RBC On the Rise Award, and got her shortlisted for the Tarragon Emerging Playwrights Award. Personal life
Koncan lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Works
TelevisionThat’s AWSM!TheatreTrendsettlersWomen of the Fur TradeRiot Resist Revolt Repeatzahgidiwin/love (2016 Harry Rintoul Award winner)How to Talk to Human BeingsThe Dance-off of Conscious Uncoupling (2015 Tom Hendry Award for Best New Comedy)Little RedFlesh-Coloured CrayonsFilmOutdigenous''

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1986 births
Living people
21st-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century First Nations writers
21st-century Canadian journalists
Canadian theatre directors
Canadian women theatre directors
University of Manitoba alumni
Brooklyn College alumni
Canadian women journalists
First Nations journalists
First Nations women writers
Canadian women film directors
Film directors from Ontario
Saulteaux people
People from Rainy River District
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights