About
Dale Lakevold
Dale Lakevold is a playwright from Minnedosa, Manitoba. He has had some 50 professional and independent productions of his plays since 1996. His five plays with Darrell Racine form a continuing series that explores Indigenous culture and history in Canada. Their latest play She-She Quois Rattle tells the story of Canada's Sixties Scoop legacy in the lives of two survivors adopted as children into white families. His play The Speech Bill Pritchard Never Gave was produced at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference in Winnipeg in 2019. Dale was a finalist for the Harry S. Rintoul Award for Best New Manitoba Play at the 2018 Winnipeg Fringe Festival for his play Bill Pritchard's Address to the Jury. He teaches in the Department of English, Drama, and Creative Writing at Brandon University. He has Norwegian- and Hungarian-Canadian roots.