Ian Ross (playwright)

[1] Ross earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in film and a minor in theatre from the University of Manitoba in 1992.

He spent the first five years of his life in the Métis community of Kinosota, Manitoba before moving to Winnipeg, which he currently now calls his home.

[2] Ross has written for theatre, film, television and radio, and has been writing plays for a number of years but is perhaps best known as the creator of Farewel.

[5] FareWel, is fictional comedy about a group of First Nations that are forced to take control of their own lives, when their chief leaves to gamble in Las Vegas.

[8] The Gap is a play that portrays a love relationship between an Indigenous man and a French woman set against the backdrop of a flood and premiered at Prairie Theatre Exchange in 2001.