On the Salish Sea

This event will feature Justin Neal, a Squamish playwright and 2024 SFU Shadbolt Fellow. His latest play, Keepers of the Salish Sea, premiered in November 2024, and infused Coast Salish knowledge with the human quest for the meaning of life.

From the late 90s to the 2010s Justin Neal juggled day jobs with amateur theatre at night. In 2013, he took a leap of faith to focus on dramatic writing full-time, relocating to his family’s Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw lands to pursue a joint MFA degree in Creative Writing and Theatre at UBC. His screenplays have placed him in dozens of competitions, programs, and residencies across North America; his feature screenplay The Skins Game will commence filming in 2026. As playwright and founder of Holy Crow Arts, he has premiered new plays, So Damn Proud (2021), and Keepers of the Salish Sea (2024). Neal is an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre’s Film Program Writers’ Lab and a 2024-25 Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at SFU.

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