• Nolan was inspired to write The Art of War after seeing the work of Canadian war artists in the years leading up to the 2005 opening of the new Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
• The Canadian Forces Artists Program, which evolved from the war art programs of the First and Second World Wars, is still active today and recruiting artists to deploy with the Canadian military.
• First produced by Hardly Art Theatre at the Remai Arts Centre BackStage Stage, Saskatoon, on November 9, 2023.

Yvette Nolan is a playwright, dramaturge, and director. In 1996, she was the Aboriginal Writer-in-Residence at Brandon University, where she wrote the first draft of Annie Mae’s Movement. Her other plays include BLADE, Job’s Wife, Video, the libretto Hilda Blake, and the radio play Owen. She is also the editor of Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour and co-editor of Refractions: Solo and Refractions: Scenes. She was the president of Playwrights Union of Canada from 1998–2001, and of Playwrights Canada Press from 2003–2005. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father, raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she lived in the Yukon and Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto.

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