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Native American drama. Early Native American culture was rich with ceremonies, rituals and storytelling. [1] The stories that inspire Native American theatre have been around for hundreds of years, but did not gain formal recognition by colonial America. [1] This lack of recognition lasted until the 1930s when Lynn Riggs, a playwright of ...
Hanay Geiogamah. Hanay Geiogamah (born 1945) is a Native American playwright, television and movie producer, and artistic director. He is a professor emeritus of the school of theater, film, and television at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also served as the director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center from 2002 to 2009.
Muriel Miguel is a founder of the Native American Theatre Ensemble at La MaMa. [5] She is a choreographer, play writer, actor, educator, and Two-spirit woman. She gathered a diverse group of women including both of her sisters Gloria Miguel and Lisa Mayo, thus creating the Spiderwoman theater. [2] She also taught theater at Bard College.
Geiogamah is a writer/director/producer of Native American dramas, as well as the founder of the American Indian Dance Theatre and Professor in the Department of Theater at the University of California, Los Angeles. Geiogamah was chosen to address a number of issues with the previous script, including historical inaccuracies.
Larissa FastHorse is a Native American (Sicangu Lakota) playwright and choreographer based in Santa Monica, California. In 2023, she became the first known female Native American playwright produced on Broadway with The Thanksgiving Play at Second Stage ’s Hayes Theater. [1][2] That same year, she joined Arizona State University as a ...
Off the Rails (play) Off the Rails is a stage adaptation of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure by Randy Reinholz, a Choctaw Native American playwright. The play was written in 2015, and inspired by Reinholz's wife and co-founder of the Native Voices theatre company at the Autry Museum of the American West, Jean Bruce Scott.
Joseph Bruchac. Joseph Bruchac (born October 16, 1942) is an American writer and storyteller based in New York. He writes about Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American lives and folklore. He has published poetry, novels, and short stories.
William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Categories: Native American writers. American dramatists and playwrights by ethnic or national origin. Indigenous theatre. Native American drama. Hidden category: Automatic category TOC generates no TOC.