རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་|Rinchen Dolma is a multidisciplinary theatre artist who for the last five years has been growing her practice as a director, playwright, dramaturge and performer and veteran community arts practitioner. Originally from the roof of the world, Rinchen was born in exile in Kathmandu, Nepal; she is primarily based in Tkarón:to (TO) but currently resides in Tiohtià:ke (MTL). She is the founder and Artistic Director of MADE IN EXILE, a grassroots community-arts-based initiative that engages young Tibetan creatives in exploring their complex identities through contemporary storytelling mediums in exile. Rinchen completed her Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts Program in Artistic Direction at Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM), was part of the 20/21 Foundry cohort at Factory Theatre, and finished the 50th edition of The Banff Playwrights Lab in 2023. This past November she participated in the 2024 Relay Lab in Bodø, Norway facilitated by Nightswimming (CAN), Seachange Lab (DK), and Davvi-Centre for Performing Arts (NOR). She is also currently in TPM’s 24.25 Buzz-In Development program working on her first full-length play ཁྱིམ་ཚང་ Khimstang.
Past works: Orlando (Talk is Free Theatre, 2022), Transfers (SummerWorks, 2022), Eventually, We Land (Tarragon x TMU, 2023), How We Play(ed) (Forward March 2023), and Lysistrata (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2024).
