Patti Flather is an award-winning Yukon playwright, theatre artist and writer. Patti’s first fiction collection is Such A Lovely Afternoon (Inanna Publications). Her play Paradise premiered in the Yukon, toured nationally, and is published (Playwrights Canada Press). Directed by Majdi Bou-Matar, Paradise was featured at the international IMPACT 15 Festival in Kitchener (MT Space/Gwaandak Theatre) and elsewhere. A scene is featured in Refractions: Scenes (PCP).
Other plays, available through the Canadian Play Outlet, include Sixty Below (with Leonard Linklater), West Edmonton Mall, Where the River Meets the Sea (winner of the Canadian National Playwriting Competition) and Street Signs (formerly The Soul Menders), a finalist in the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition. Helen’s Hangout was one of 50+ short plays in the series “Envisioning a Global Green New Deal,” with the Arts & Climate Initiative (formerly known as Climate Change Theatre Action.)
Patti is among co-creators of Ndoo Tr’eedyaa Gogwaandak—Vuntut Gwitchin Stories radio plays and booklets in Gwich’in and English, a 2019 Yukon Heritage Award winner, with Gwaandak Theatre/Vuntut Gwitchin Government and available free at vuntutstories.ca. Patti was a co-creator of Gwaandak’s devised work Map of the Land, Map of the Stars, which toured the Yukon and nationally and is published in Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2018).
She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of B.C. and is an alumna of Humber School for Writers. Patti has been a featured author at Yukon Writers Festivals/Young Authors Conferences and at play readings across the country. She also works as a dramaturg, director and cultural producer. She is a proud member of Playwrights Guild of Canada, The Writers Union of Canada, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
An anglo-settler, she grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded and stolen territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations. Flather is grateful to live on Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council territory in Whitehorse, Yukon.
I love doing public readings and discussions either on my own or with other authors. I'm also experienced at doing various writing workshops with specific focuses. Some examples include: Writing a Monologue; Writing Dialogue That Leaps Off the Page.
