VALUES
I hold up words with intention to connect us as people through the shared experience of love. From love blooms health - the foundation for everything. With these two gifts we prosper and flourish as do our spirit, our art and our finances. I write to love, prosper and live in radiant health. May my work light up my local and global communities in this way.
MISSION
To create and seek out opportunities for ambitious creative entrepreneurship through calculated risk-taking, meaningful networking, and mutually-supportive collaboration with artistic peers.
VISION
I believe in myself and my art to a liberating degree. I achieve this by growing my comfort zone through collaboration with other artists to create our own profitable and validating work opportunities.
ULTIMATE CAREER GOAL
To become an internationally-connected multilingual writer and artist who creates and produces word-based artwork that demands to be heard, read, shared and remembered.
BIOGRAPHY
On French-language Independent Study in Playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada for 2022-23, Amber O’Reilly is a French-Canadian multilingual poet, spoken word artist, playwright and screenwriter from Yellowknife and based in Winnipeg since 2013. Her French-language poetry collection Boussole franche, published with Les Éditions du Blé, won the 2021 Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault (Manitoba Book Awards) and was a finalist for the 2022 Prix Champlain.
In 2021, she produced her first full-length play Annie et Tom du lundi au vendredi with Winnipeg's Théâtre Cercle Molière as a hybrid film-theatre work directed by Marie-Ève Fontaine. The play was read at the 10th Festival à haute voix at Théâtre l'Escaouette in Moncton, and was selected for the 12th Women Playrights International Conference 2022. Amber received the 2021 Prix Roland-Mahé for this project.
Her poetry and critical writing have appeared in several journals, magazines and newspapers and she has performed across Canada. She is also the author of several short theatre and film works. Her passion for languages has led her to speak French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and English. Amber is Board Chair of Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival and has served on the boards of the Association des auteur-e-s du Manitoba français, Cinémental Manitoba and la Fédération de la jeunesse canadienne-française.
An artist at heart, Amber lives with her husband Patrick and their dog Hunter. Her roots are French-Canadian from Ontario, Irish, Ukrainian, Norwegian and Algonquin. She grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories where she lived full-time until age 16. In high school , she began scribbling poetry into her notebooks and hasn't stopped. Since then, she has continued to uproot herself both physically and spiritually. She has always listened to others stories and created her own. Amber travels through space and through others, excavating her work from her lived experiences.
In 2021, she produced her first full-length play Annie et Tom du lundi au vendredi with Winnipeg's Théâtre Cercle Molière as a hybrid film-theatre work directed by Marie-Ève Fontaine. The play was read at the 10th Festival à haute voix at Théâtre l'Escaouette in Moncton, and was selected for the 12th Women Playrights International Conference 2022. Amber received the 2021 Prix Roland-Mahé for this project.
Her poetry and critical writing have appeared in several journals, magazines and newspapers and she has performed across Canada. She is also the author of several short theatre and film works. Her passion for languages has led her to speak French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and English. Amber is Board Chair of Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival and has served on the boards of the Association des auteur-e-s du Manitoba français, Cinémental Manitoba and la Fédération de la jeunesse canadienne-française.
An artist at heart, Amber lives with her husband Patrick and their dog Hunter. Her roots are French-Canadian from Ontario, Irish, Ukrainian, Norwegian and Algonquin. She grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories where she lived full-time until age 16. In high school , she began scribbling poetry into her notebooks and hasn't stopped. Since then, she has continued to uproot herself both physically and spiritually. She has always listened to others stories and created her own. Amber travels through space and through others, excavating her work from her lived experiences.