Kevin Loring

Kevin Loring (born November 24, 1974 in Lytton, British Columbia) is a Canadian playwright and actor. As a playwright, he won the Governor Generals Award for English-language drama, the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition and the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script, and was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, for Where the Blood Mixes in 2009.As an actor, his credits include roles in the television series Da Vincis Inquest, Arctic Air and Health Nutz, and the film Pathfinder, as well as stage roles including Michel Tremblays Saint Carmen of the Main, George Rygas The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Edmund in an all-First Nations production of William Shakespeares King Lear at the National Arts Centre in 2012.A Nlakapamux from the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia, he studied acting at Langara College.On June 15, 2017, Loring was announced as the first artistic director for Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

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