Columpa Bobb Biography – Columpa Bobb Wiki
Columpa Bobb born Columpa C. Bobb is a Canadian photographer, actress, playwright, poet, and teacher of Coastal Salish descent. She has been performing, writing plays, and teaching for 20 years. She is best known as the daughter of the late Canadian poet and writer Lee Maracle and the great-granddaughter of actor Chief Dan George. Her mother Lee Maracle died on November 11, 2021. She was 71.
She is the Program Director and instructor, teaching classes for the Aboriginal Arts Training & Mentorship Program at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People in Winnipeg, Manitoba where she lives. The program serves about 325 students per year and is free of charge to all participants. She is also an instructor for the Circus and Magic Partnership (CAMP) program through the Winnipeg International Children’s Festival.
She has written over a dozen plays that have been produced across Canada and overseas including Jumping Mouse (co-written with Marion deVries), a play for young audiences, was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award, and a James Buller Award. Bobb is most recognized for the role of Mary Cook on the CBC Television show North of 60 and also appeared in the short-lived series The Rez and the film Johnny Greyeyes. In 1997 she won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in Firehall Theatre’s production of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth.
She was a cultural instructor and faculty member of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto. Her poetry book, Hope Matters, was written in conjunction with her mother Lee Maracle, and her sister Tania Carter and was published in 2019.
Columpa Bobb Age
She was born in 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Columpa Bobb Parents
She is the daughter of the late poet and writer Lee Maracle and the great-granddaughter of actor Chief Dan George. Her mother Lee Maracle died on November 11, 2021, at the age of 71.
Columpa Bobb Siblings
She has three siblings. Her sister Tania Carter also co-authored her book and her two brothers.
Columpa Bobb Instagram
Her Instagram account is @columpa. According to her Instagram bio, she describes herself as a “Theatre artist, photographer, writer.”
