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, 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 mediums of storytelling 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, completed 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.
Rinchen’s recent work includes Orlando (Talk is Free Theatre, 2022), Transfers (SummerWorks, 2022), Eventually, We Land (Tarragon x TMU, 2023) and Lysistrata (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2024).
