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Caleigh Crow is a Métis playwright and actress from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is most noted for her play There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2024 Governor General's Awards.

Cofounder of Thumbs Up Good Work Theatre with her brother Colin Wolf, she has had both acting and directing credits in the Calgary theatre scene. There Is Violence was first staged at Calgary's Arts Commons in 2019, and was staged in several other cities before being published by Playwrights Canada Press in fall 2023.

Her other plays have included Hexen and The Big McCoy.

In addition to her Governor General's Award win, There Is Violence was shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Awards in the English prose category in 2024.

References

"There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow by Caleigh Crow". CBC Books, November 6, 2024.
Cassandra Drudi, "Jordan Abel, Niigaan Sinclair among 2024 Governor General’s award winners". Quill & Quire, November 13, 2024.
^ Amy Tucker, "Feeling limited by appearance-based casting, Métis siblings create their own company". Toronto Star, February 24, 2019.
"Quiet! I’m Talking kicks off new STC season". Sudbury Star, September 26, 2021.
Cassandra Drudi, "Finalists announced for 2024 Indigenous Voices Awards". Quill & Quire, May 7, 2024.

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language drama
1980s	Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations (1981) John Gray, Billy Bishop Goes to War (1982) Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land (1983) Judith Thompson, White Biting Dog (1984) George F. Walker, Criminals in Love (1985) Sharon Pollock, Doc (1986) John Krizanc, Prague (1987) George F. Walker, Nothing Sacred (1988) Judith Thompson, The Other Side of the Dark (1989)
1990s	Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1990) Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue Guitar (1991) John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night (1992) Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas (1993) Morris Panych, The Ends of the Earth (1994) Jason Sherman, Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1995) Colleen Wagner, The Monument (1996) Ian Ross, fareWel (1997) Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet (1998) Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy (1999)
2000s	Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Rex (2000) Kent Stetson, The Harps of God (2001) Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918) (2002) Vern Thiessen, Einstein's Gift (2003) Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2004) John Mighton, Half Life (2005) Daniel MacIvor, I Still Love You (2006) Colleen Murphy, The December Man (2007) Catherine Banks, Bone Cage (2008) Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (2009)
2010s	Robert Chafe, Afterimage (2010) Erin Shields, If We Were Birds (2011) Catherine Banks, It Is Solved by Walking (2012) Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays (2013) Jordan Tannahill, Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays (2014) David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave (2015) Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl (2016) Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm (2017) Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom (2018) Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game (2019)
2020s	Kim Senklip Harvey, Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story (2020) Hannah Moscovitch, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (2021) Dorothy Dittrich, The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key (2022) Cliff Cardinal, As You Like It: A Radical Retelling (2023) Caleigh Crow, There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow (2024)

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