Olivia Shortt
Nina Boujee is your cHa0tiC & weird drag-adjacent Two-Spirit Trickster friend.
Making friends isn't easy and it's especially isn't easy when the world is ending. We follow the growth and development of the friendship between a Two-Spirit Trickster and their new friend Jeeves, a half-ghost and half-boi spirit living between the worlds.
Olivia Shortt (They/Them: Anishinaabe, Nipissing First Nation, makwa/bear clan with settler ancestry) is an improviser, composer, video artist, and curator. Highlights include performing Raven Chacon's For Olivia Shortt at The Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC) as part of Chacon's series of solo works For Zitkála-Šá during the 2022 Whitney Biennial; playing at the Lincoln Center (NYC) with the International Contemporary Ensemble; as well as recording an album of Robert Lemay's music two kilometres underground in the SnoLAB (Neutrino Lab in Sudbury, Canada). Works created over the last two years include commissions from Long Beach Opera (California), the JACK Quartet (NYC), and Din of Shadows (Toronto). Shortt was a finalist for the 2021 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award as well as named one of the 2020 Buddies in Bad Times Emerging Queer Artists. Shortt was featured in the 2020 Winter edition of Musicworks Magazine.