SKARU:RĘ & SONG

Mother, Singer, Composer, Teacher – Jennifer Kreisberg (Tuscarora, North Carolina) is an Emmy nominated composer that comes from four generations of Seven Singing Sisters. She is known for her fierce traditional vocals.

Jennifer has sung with the Native Women’s Trio ULALI for 28 years. She has shared the stage with such performers as Charlie Hill, Buffy Saint-Marie, Bonnie Raitt, Ritchie Havens, Floyd Westerman, A Tribe Called Red, The Indigo Girls and many others. Her song Have Hope, won a Genie Award, a Native American Music Award, and 2 Independent Music Awards as well as being featured in the New York Times as a Critics Pic. Jennifer has played on stages across the globe from The Hollywood Bowl for the Dali Lama, to the 2010 Olympics.Jennifer composed and performed in both the stage and film version of The Road Forward. She also composed music for the Emmy award winning documentary, Dawnland. She had the honour of being the opening performer at the first Women’s March on Washington. Her next solo work Wah Thye Yeh Rak is due out soon. She contributed music to the upcoming films "Without a Whisper", "Searching for Sequoyah", and "Paulettle".

Michelle St. John is a two-time Gemini Award winning actor, writer, singer, producer and director. As an actor, Michelle has appeared in Where the Spirit Lives, Smoke Signals, E.N.G. CBS’s Northern Exposure and more. Michelle was a Co-Founder of Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble, a Native women’s theatre company based in Toronto. For ten years, she and colleagues, Monique Mojica and Jani Lauzon created, produced and toured their original works, The Scrubbing Project, The Triple Truth and The Only Good Indian… across Turtle Island.

As Co-Artistic Director of Red Diva, she has collaborated with playwright/director Marie Clements on several theatre, film and music productions including the The Edward Curtis Project, Tombs of the Vanishing Indian and acclaimed live productions of The Road Forward along with short films, Jesus Indian and Prison Chronicles.

Michelle has recently joined forces with actor/writer Duane Murray and filmmaker Shane Belcourt to form a new production company called Wolfwalker Productions. Over the years working with Shane, she has produced several works including the short film, Apikiwiak, the documentary series Urban Native Girl, Heritage Minutes Naskumituwin & Chanie Wenjack and the feature film Red Rover. Their next feature film DUMBBELL is currently in development with Telefilm Canada. As director and producer, Michelle’s first documentary, Colonization Road has screened the world over and has garnered a Golden Sheaf Award from the Yorkton Film Festival and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for the Donald Brittain Award – Best Social/Political Documentary.