ELON MUSKRAT

By Josh Languedoc

Casinos, corruption, and control. After a series of unfortunate events, Elon Muskrat is selling his casino empire to the highest bidder. Who will be the lucky winner and what will they really win? This new storytelling show explores what lies on the surfaces of power, and what hides beneath it.

Directed by Liz Hobbs, dramaturgy by Charlie Peters and read by Josh Languedoc.

Josh Languedoc is a proud member of Saugeen First Nation and lives as a guest in Treaty 6Territory as an Anishinaabe playwright, producer, storyteller, and teacher. Since 2018, Josh has

been touring his solo performance Rocko and Nakota: Tales From the Land to theatres and festivals all across Turtle Island. Some of Josh’s other plays include Feast (Gwaandak Theatre

2023, NewWorks and Fringe 2022), CIVIL BLOOD: A Treaty Story (Thou Art Here Theatre),The Eyes Of Spirits (Native Earth Performing Arts), and IN-COR-RI-GI-BLE: The Legend of

Thundervoice (Blyth Festival). Josh also teaches around the Edmonton area with the Citadel’s Foote Theatre School, Edmonton Public Schools, Artstrek, Northern Alberta YMCA, and runs the teen playwriting program #WritesOfPassage at Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre. As a

producer, Josh has curated the pêhonân Series (Fringe Theatre), the Indigenous Pavilion (Silver Skate Festival), Connections//Collisons (Mile Zero Dance), and #ReconcileThis (National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre). You may have also seen Josh don a leather jacket as Sonny Boy in

the Indigenous hit Bear Grease (LightningCloud Productions). In 2023, Josh finished his MFA Theatre Practice with a focus on Indigenous Playwriting, where he is officially the third Indigenous person to ever finish this program. Josh was also recently honoured with a MacEwan University Distinguished Alumni Award.