In 1990, she started playwright career at the
Winnipeg Fringe Festival with premier of her play,
Blade. It was later remounted at both the Best of the Fringe (1990) and Women in View Festival (1992). She has worked at various theatre companies throughout Canada, including the Agassiz Theatre, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Nakai Theatre in
Whitehorse, and
Native Earth Performing Arts, a theatre company based in
Ontario province. As a director, she has contributed significantly to the development of
Aboriginal theatre within Canada. She has directed plays by
George Ryga (
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe),
Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble (
The Only Good Indian),
Marie Clements (
Tombs of the Vanishing Indian and
The Unnatural and Accidental Women),
Kenneth T. Williams (
Café Daughter and
In Care), and
Melanie J. Murray (
A Very Polite Genocide). From 1998 until 2001, she was also president of the
Playwrights Guild of Canada. She was the artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts from 2003 to 2010, was president of the
Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance, and has sat on the boards of the
Saskatchewan Arts Alliance In 2010 and 2011, she hosted
Matariki Development Festival in
New Zealand. She is an Artistic Associate at Signal Theatre and co-director with
Michael Greyeyes of a dance opera (
Bearing) at the 2017
Luminato Festival. She also directed (
Nôhkom) with Signal Theatre. In 2017, she was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership to the CATR / ACRT. In 2021, she taught at the Canadian College of the Performing Arts in
Victoria, British Columbia. In the same year, she was awarded the Gascon-Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award from the
National Theatre School of Canada. In 2022, she was the Interim Co-Artistic Director along with Skye Brandon at Shakespeare On The Saskatchewan. She is a Senior Fellow at Massey College in
Toronto. Her play,
The Unplugging, received two productions in 2023 at the
Belfry Theatre in the city of Victoria in British Columbia and the
Great Canadian Theatre Company in
Ottawa. It was also produced in 2025 by
Burnt Thicket Theatre in
Sasaktoon, Canada. Her work with Donna-Michelle St. Bernard continued with
The First Stone at Buddies in Bad Times in 2022 and at Great Canadian Theatre Company in 2023. She directed Frances Koncan's
Women Of The Fur Trade at the Stratford Festival in 2023. as well as at the
Globe Theatre in
Regina. From 2016–2022, she was the Company Dramaturge at Sum Theatre in Saskatoon. ==Writer-in-Residence==