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Two members of Regina's arts community among dead in fatal collision

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 11 Feb, 2015 10:19 AM

    REGINA — Three members of the arts community are being identified by friends and colleagues as among the five people killed in a fatal collision on a Saskatchewan highway.

    Lacy Morin-Desjarlais, Michele Sereda and Michael Green died in a multi-vehicle crash about 15 kilometres north of Regina on Tuesday.

    Morin-Desjarlais, who was 29, worked on plays and powwows at the University of Regina.

    Sereda, who was 49, was the artistic director of the experimental Curtain Razors theatre company.

    Green, who was 58, was the co-founder of the One Yellow Rabbit theatre company in Calgary.

    Police continue to investigate the collision that also sent two other people to hospital.

    A woman remains in care and a man has been released.

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