Peace Akintade, the 11th Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Public Speaker, and Thespian residing in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Playwriting credits include “The Wives, The Concubines, The Ritual”, with So Glad Arts, “Madness with Rocks” with Obsidian Theatre and CBCGem, “Painted Elephant” with Black Theatre Workshop AMP, “I Am Who I Am” with SUMTheatre’s First Monday, “But First Let Me Breathe” with Theatre on the Beat. Intimacy Director for “The Maids,” Whirlygig Theatre, “The Next Room”, Lolabrickida Theatre, “Final Notice”, Whirlygig Theatre, “Mustard”, 25th Street Theatre, “Twelfth Night”, Never Never Shakespeare, “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, and “Unplugging”, BurntThicket Theatre. Recipient of the 2022 RBC SaskArts Emerging Artist Award and the 2023 Platinum Jubilee Queen’s Medal. 2020-2021 Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laureate, 2022 READSaskatoon Poet Laureate, and previous Poet-in-Residence with the Remai Modern Gallery for their Here and Now: Live Arts Initiative.