Tara Beagan is a Ntlaka'pamux and Irish "Canadian" playwright and actor based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary). She is cofounder/director of ARTICLE 11 with Andy Moro; their feature film Reckoning premiered in 2023. Beagan served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts (2011 to 2013, and has been in playwright-in-residence at Cahoots Theatre, NEPA, the National Arts Centre, Berton House, and most recently, Prairie Theatre Exchange. Seven of her 35 plays are published. Two plays have received Toronto's Dora Award nominations, with one win. In 2020, Honour Beat won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama. Recent writing includes Rise, Red River for PTE (premiering in 2024 with PTE, Theatre Circle Moliere and A11), Nice White Lady for Necessary Angel, and Ride or Die for Sunny Drake Productions, produced by Downstage. Beagan is a Dora and Betty nominated actor, recently appearing in Theatre Calgary's Little Women as well as Vertigo's The Extractionist. Most recently, Beagan was nominated for a Betty for directing her play The Ministry of Grace (for Making Treaty 7.) Along with protege Joelle Peters, Beagan is the 2020 laureate of the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre.
