Marianne Brørup Weston

Director Producer

Marianne is an award-winning actor, designer, director and Viking first generation settler with 30 years’ community theatre experience. In 2000, she ventured into the world of Indigenous theatre and met Larry Guno, a Nisga’a lawyer with a story to tell. After staging Tomson Highway’s “The Rez Sisters” in an acclaimed northwest BC tour, she and Larry embarked on creating a play from his true life experiences at the Edmonton IRS, “Bunk #7”. 

Marianne directed two more Indigenous plays, “Someday” by Drew Hayden Taylor, and “Wawatay” by Penny Gummerson, and audited workshops at Western Canada Theatre of Tomson Highway’s’ “Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout”. She directed the staged play reading of “Bunk #7” at Native Earth Performing Arts’ Weesageechak Begins to Dance 16 Festival in 2003. Subsequently she produced a northwest BC Play Reading Tour of “Bunk #7” in 2008 bringing at-risk youth together with IRS survivors. During the tour, she met several of Larry’s classmates who at the riot in St. Albert. In 2018, she once again directed “Bunk #7” as a workshop production, returning to Native Earth’s Weesageechak 32 Festival, with her local Indigenous actors in tow.

Marianne’s real job is writing proposals for Indigenous communities. She connects to the Tsm'syen community through her sister Birgitte. She and husband Alan are grandparents to 14, including Metis and Tsm’syen grandchildren.