She graduated from Studio 58’s Theatre program and the Langara Film Arts screenwriting program.  

She represented the Musqueam Nation during the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics and since then has continued to do Land Acknowledgements on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. She facilitates workshops and does various consultations for the arts and corporate sector.  

It’s been an honour for Quelemia to be the Protocol Keeper for the Transform Festival at the CULTCH for 3 years running. In 2019 she co-hosted the opening bashes with Lisa Fa’alafi from Hot Brown Honey.  

Quelemia works across Canada as an actor, writer and director for various theatre companies including: The Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, Globe Theatre, WCT and The Stratford Festival. Some of her Film and T.V acting credits include: Until Branches Bend, Motherland Fort Salem, Tribal, Clouds of Autumn, Blackstone, Cable Beach, Da Vinci’s City Hall and Da Vinci’s Inquest which she won a Leo Award for Best Female Guest Appearance.  

Though she works in various forms much of Quelemia’s writing centres Indigenous perspective, specifically her Musqueam knowledge and culture. Over the past 20 years she has been learning about sχʷəy̓em̓ (Musqueam history), the original placenames of what is so called Greater Vancouver, land-based stories and teachings.

Quelemia has been decolonizing her theatre practice. And through that process she has Indigenized her work and created her own way of approaching her devised and land-based creations based on her Musqueam Culture and protocols.

With her own Musqueam-based creation methodology she has written and created: A narrative podcast: ‘Almost Real’ Necessary Tomorrows/Al Jazeera, ‘Salmon Girl’ RavenSpirit Dance, Co-writer ‘The Pipeline Project’ Itsazoo and Savage Society, A podplay ‘Ashes on the Water’ Neworld/Raven Spirit Dance, Indigenous consultant and Indigenous content writer for ‘Lysistrata’ Bard on the Beach, 'Skyborn: A Land Reclamation Odyssey' SavageSociety.

Currently she is completing ‘Women of Papiyek’ Full Circle/Animikiig Native Earth which will be produced by Bard on the Beach and 'Tumulx' a commission with Neworld Theatre.

Most recently she completed a Fellowship with UBC Theatre devising 'Tumulx'. You can also listen to an interview with CBC ‘Unreserved’ about her narrative podcast ‘Almost Real’.