Frances Koncan (born 1986) is an Saulteaux-Slovene journalist, theatre director, and playwright from Couchiching First Nation who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
[2] Her play The Dance-off of Conscious Uncoupling received the 2015 Tom Hendry Award for Best New Comedy.
[3] Koncan is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
[2] She wrote the play Women of the Fur Trade,[4] zahgidiwin/love,[5] Flesh-Coloured Crayons,[6] and Space Girl.
[7] Koncan has also worked as assistant director on Seminar (for the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre/Mirvish Productions),[3] The Humans, and A Doll's House, Part 2 (RMTC), and Stripped Down Anthony & Cleopatra (Shakespeare in the Ruins).