Diane Roberts (American) is an interdisciplinary performance creator, director, dramaturge and cultural animator who has collaborated with theatre artists for the past thirty years. Her directorial and dramaturgical work has been seen on stages across Canada and her reputation as a mentor, teacher and community collaborator is nationally and internationally recognized. Through practice and teaching, Roberts has developed her voice as a cultural leader—cultivating and promoting a vision for performance that encourages Indigenous ways of knowing as a stepping-stone to authentic creative expression. This vision is bolstered by the creation of innovative projects inspiring trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural collaborations. Roberts’s Arrivals Personal Legacy Project (www.arrivalslegacy.com) developed during her seven-year tenure as Artistic Director of Urban Ink productions and has yield interdisciplinary works across Canada, throughout the Americas, in the UK, Europe and the Caribbean. Roberts is also a founding member of Obsidian Theatre and backforward collective in Toronto, Associate Artist of lbs/sq” (Toronto) and co-founder and Artistic Director of Boldskool Productions (Vancouver, Montreal) with playwright Omari Newton. Roberts is currently pursuing her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at Concordia University.