| Columpa C. Bobb | |
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.jpg) Bobb in 2011 | |
| Born | 1971 (age 52–53) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, actress, playwright, poet, teacher |
| Mother | Lee Maracle |
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Columpa C. Bobb (born 1971) is a Canadian photographer, actress, playwright, poet and teacher of Coastal Salish descent. She has been performing, writing plays, and teaching for 20 years.
Career
Bobb, who is originally from Vancouver, has written over a dozen plays that have been produced across Canada and overseas including Jumping Mouse (co-written with Marion deVries), a play for young audiences, that was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award and a James Buller Award. Bobb is most recognized for the role of Mary Cook on the CBC Television show North of 60, and also appeared in the short lived series The Rez and the film Johnny Greyeyes. In 1997 she won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in Firehall Theatre's production of Drew Hayden Taylor's Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth.
She was a cultural instructor and faculty member of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto. She is currently the Program Director and instructor, teaching classes for the Aboriginal Arts Training & Mentorship Program at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People in Winnipeg, Manitoba where she resides. The program serves about 325 students per year and is free of charge to all participants. Bobb is also an instructor for the Circus and Magic Partnership (CAMP) program through the Winnipeg International Children's Festival.
In 2019, Bobb appeared as Mavis in the National Arts Centre's production of Marie Clements' The Unnatural and Accidental Women.
Her newest poetry book, Hope Matters, was written in conjunction with her mother Lee Maracle and her sister Tania Carter, and is slated for publication in 2019.
Personal life
Bobb is the daughter of poet and writer Lee Maracle and the great-granddaughter of actor Chief Dan George.
References
- Goodman, John. "Columpa Bobb comes full circle at Firehall Arts Centre". North Shore News. Retrieved Mar 19, 2020.
- "Northern Camp Circus and Magic Partnership" (PDF). kidsfest.ca. March 27, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- "Columpa C. Bobb". ipaa.ca. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- Saxberg, Lynn (2019-09-15). "Theatre review: The Unnatural and Accidental Women stuns with ambitious, powerful show". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- "20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019". cbc.ca. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- "Lee Maracle". thinairwinnipeg.ca. February 1, 2019.
External links
- Columpa Bobb at IMDb
- 1971 births
- Canadian stage actresses
- Canadian television actresses
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- First Nations dramatists and playwrights
- First Nations actresses
- Living people
- Writers from Vancouver
- Actresses from Vancouver
- First Nations women writers
- Indigenous Canadian women academics
- First Nations academics
- 20th-century Canadian actresses
- 21st-century Canadian actresses
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- 20th-century First Nations writers
- 21st-century First Nations writers
- 20th-century indigenous women of the Americas
- 21st-century indigenous women of the Americas