The Children of the Bear 

Created by Todd Houseman
Co-directed by Erin Goodpipe and Mitchell Cushman
A workshop presentation at
Native Earth Performing Arts’ Weesageechak Begins to Dance 38
Developed with the support of NAC Indigenous Theatre

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Todd Houseman’s Dungeons & Dragons meets Indigi-fantasy play will receive a public workshop presentation at Native Earth’s annual development festival of Indigenous work in November 2025. The play follows a young mixed Cree family as they attempt to rise above the colonial structures that surround them; either by escaping more deeply into the game of fantasy or becoming the Crees their ancestors want them to be. In this workshop, the family Dungeon Master Todd invites audiences to choose their own adventure across a vast game world represented in miniature through a scale 3D model of a D&D-inspired roleplaying campaign.

The Children of the Bear has been in development since 2020 through Outside the March’s TD Forward March Program.

The sharing is co-directed by Erin Goodpipe and OtM Artistic Director Mitchell Cushman with Production Design by Tyson Houseman, and stars creator Todd Houseman, Native Earth Artistic Director Joelle Peters, Jeremy Proulx, Zara Jestadt, Dillan Chiblow, Kole Dunford and Vance Banzo.