Daniel David Moses

Daniel David Moses (born 18 February 1952) is a First Nations poet and playwright from Canada.

Moses, of Delaware descent, was born in Ohsweken, Ontario, and raised on a farm on the Six Nations of the Grand River. He has an Honours BA from York University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Moses was the president of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto for seven years. In 2003, Moses joined the department of drama at Queen's University as an assistant professor.

He has worked as an independent artist since 1979 as a poet, playwright, dramaturge, editor, essayist, teacher, and writer-in-residence with institutions as varied as Theatre Passe Muraille, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Theatre Kingston, the University of British Columbia, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Windsor, the University of Toronto, the Sage Hill Writing Experience, McMaster University and Concordia University.

Works

Delicate Bodies (blew ointment press) – 1980
The White Line – 1988
Coyote City: A Play in Two Acts – 1990 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
The Dreaming Beauty – 1990 – (won 1990 Theatre Canada's National Playwrighting Competition)
Almighty Voice and His Wife – 1992
The Moon and Dead Indians – 1994 – (won 1994 Du Maurier One Act Playwrighting Competition)
The Indian Medicine Shows – 1996 – (won 1996 James Buller Award for Aboriginal Theatre Excellence – Playwight of the Year)
Big Buck City – 1998
Brébeuf's Ghost – 2000
Sixteen Jesuses – 2000
City of Shadows: Necropolite! – 2000
Songs of Love and Medicine – 2005
Pursued by a Bear: Talks, Monologues and Tales – 2005