Drew Hayden Taylor

Drew Hayden Taylor is widely known for his thoughtful and sharply witty observations on aboriginal subjects and issues. As one of Canada’s leading playwrights, he has received some of the country’s most prestigious drama awards for his work, which includes Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth and the three-part series The Bootlegger Blues, The Baby Blues and The Buz’Gem Blues. Hayden Taylor also writes for the screen, and his National Film Board of Canada documentary on Aboriginal humour, Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew, has been shown all across North America. Audiences as far afield as France, Germany and Australia have welcomed Hayden Taylor's beguiling storytelling style, and he has given lectures on several continents about Native humour. In 2004 he emceed and performed at an event devoted to the subject at Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian.. His trenchant opinions on identity politics and the hilarious absurdities that are often the lot of a “blue-eyed Ojibway” are collected in book form in the Funny, You Don’t Look Like One series. Drew Hayden Taylor is an Ojibway from Ontario’s Curve Lake Reserve. He currently lives in Toronto. Contributors: Thomas King Tomson Highway Lee Maracle Drew Hayden Taylor Allan J. Ryan Don Kelly Mirjam Hirch Karen Froman Janice Acoose Louise Profeit-LeBlanc Kristina Fagan