Jani Lauzon, director and playwright, and Kaitlyn Riordan, playwright, co-created the play 1939 that is part of the Stratford Festival's 2022 season. Jani Lauzon is a director and multidisciplinary performer of Métis ancestry. Kaitlyn Riordan is a settler of Irish and French descent who is a four-time Dora nominated actress and a playwright.

On September 26, 2022, they they came to the University of Waterloo and spoke about their unique process of engaging community and support from Elders and Knowledge Keepers, with a lens to the work of Indigenous artists and activists over the last 100 years, used to develop 1939, a play that premiered at Stratford Festival in 2022. Set at a fictional Residential School in Northern Ontario, the co-playwrights worked cross-culturally to explore the use of Shakespeare as a tool of colonization and what happens when the students subvert that intention and bring their cultures and lived experiences to the task of putting on a play.

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