Valerie Sing Turner

Valerie Sing Turner is a multidisciplinary artist who performs, writes, directs, dramaturges, and produces. Her works for the stage include the interdisciplinary CONFESSIONS OF THE OTHER WOMAN; the libretto for the comic chamber opera DID I JUST SAY THAT? for soprano and mezzo soprano; and IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAINS, a dramedy for 10 actors centering three generations of an interracial family (Indigenous, Chinese-Canadian, and Japanese-Canadian). A recipient of the Enbridge playRites Award for Emerging Canadian Playwright, John Moffat + Larry Lillo Prize, UBCP/ACTRA’s International Women’s Day Award, and BC Lieutenant Governor’s Platinum Jubilee Arts & Music Award in recognition of her “exceptional contributions to the arts”, Valerie is Co-Director/Creative Lead for CultureBrew.Art, a digital platform featuring a Canada-wide searchable database of Indigenous and racialized artists working in the performing, literary, media, and visual arts, as well as founder/Co-Artistic Producer of Visceral Visions.