Frances Koncan (she/they)
is a two-spirit director, playwright, and dramaturge of mixed Anishinaabe and Slovene descent. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and half a music degree.
Frances Koncan (she/they) was born many years ago and is now of a certain age. Originally from Couchiching First Nation in Treaty 3 territory, she currently lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Treaty 1 territory. She is a playwright, a director, a journalist, the Artistic Director of Sarasvati Productions, a Taurus, an INFP, an Enneagram Type 4, and mother to a dog named Tucker, a cat named Tucker, and 58 house plants who are not named Tucker.
A graduate of CUNY Brooklyn College’s MFA Playwriting program, her career began in 2015 and has been on a very slow but nonetheless upward trajectory ever since. Her two biggest creative dreams include writing a Hallmark movie script and a musical (not, however, a Hallmark Musical).
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