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Darrell Racine

Darrell Racine is a playwright from Brandon, Manitoba. His play Owl Calling/IAP, co-written with Dale Lakevold, won Best Play in Theatre BC's National Playwriting Competition in 2022. His play Stretching Hide, also co-written with Dale Lakevold, won the same award in Theatre BC's playwriting competition in 2004. It was produced by Theatre Projects Manitoba in Winnipeg and published by Scirocco Drama in 2007. An excerpt from the play was anthologized by Portage & Main Press in 2013. One of Darrell's most recent plays (also with Dale Lakevold) is Franklin's Fate, a history play about Lady Jane Franklin's search for her husband Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. The story involves Alexander Isbister, a Manitoba Metis author and lawyer living in London at the time. Darrell is a Metis from the Turtle Mountains in Manitoba. He is a graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Brandon University, and teaches in the Department of Native Studies at Brandon University.