tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70750528404106778992024-03-05T17:36:39.874-08:00Native Voices at the AutryNative Voices at the Autry is the country’s only Equity theatre company.ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-3958606533917011992023-03-01T11:39:00.003-08:002023-06-01T11:44:51.528-07:0013th Annual Short Play Festival<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4WQJGEbuvbG423_MbrIIBrKZCMoBZMdxyJUHLV4FaQO9cYP4wXJ_Xw-ItMfKPI12UpamNk_3k79lFP3e1m2dBah5rOV_Ko1MxEDUu_qWurrGmuibNpmocsUlj3OKUQlVSfNpnIQaMuFlZZc3wmmfCUCw9Hls0RLpb-Q1tYbnLOpwnt9zsfNB98TI/s1080/meet%20the%20playwrights.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4WQJGEbuvbG423_MbrIIBrKZCMoBZMdxyJUHLV4FaQO9cYP4wXJ_Xw-ItMfKPI12UpamNk_3k79lFP3e1m2dBah5rOV_Ko1MxEDUu_qWurrGmuibNpmocsUlj3OKUQlVSfNpnIQaMuFlZZc3wmmfCUCw9Hls0RLpb-Q1tYbnLOpwnt9zsfNB98TI/w400-h400/meet%20the%20playwrights.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUwpGu9XSY1dkt9JqkZawlsZdiLGWE2A5sgTzcNgVESrckhGyvwuKygz3-g5EUbqsl8KLj0dbZffNtyi4FFlY_mJIgLYAzjJp849yEuwgUH18w2ll5o7sbnye3WxvT0-IsVtTuIpXI_fk7MgVclei-5xMs6YToUQfapE2X8j-58Uxeh95QNUPfFne/s1080/meet%20the%20playwrigghts.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUwpGu9XSY1dkt9JqkZawlsZdiLGWE2A5sgTzcNgVESrckhGyvwuKygz3-g5EUbqsl8KLj0dbZffNtyi4FFlY_mJIgLYAzjJp849yEuwgUH18w2ll5o7sbnye3WxvT0-IsVtTuIpXI_fk7MgVclei-5xMs6YToUQfapE2X8j-58Uxeh95QNUPfFne/w400-h400/meet%20the%20playwrigghts.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-22487728839800558272023-02-01T11:32:00.001-08:002023-08-25T10:21:44.354-07:002023<div>NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES ~ April 2022</div><div>13th ANNUAL SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL ~ <i>Don't Mess with Auntie!</i><br /></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Leave the Gun...Take the Pie</i> by Jennifer Bobiwash (Mississauga First Nation)<br /><i>Aunty is a Verb</i> by Lee Cataluna (Native Hawaiian) <span style="font-size: xx-small;">* & **</span><br /><i>The White Van</i> by Claude Jackson, Jr. (Gila River Indian Community)<br /><i>A Likely Story</i> by Alan Kilpatrick (Cherokee)<br /><i>Decoration Day</i> by Maddox Pennington (Cherokee and Choctaw)<br /><i>Hauntie</i> by Lara Annette (Anishinaabe (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and Red Lake Nation)</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Winner<br />
*Audience Winner<br /></span>
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NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES ~ June 2023</div><div>29th FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS <br /><br />
<i>Central Standard Time</i> by Maddox Pennington (Cherokee)<br />
<i>Comanche Girl on the Moon</i> by Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche)<br />
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NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY ~ <br />
September 2022 <br />
<br />Equity Production <br /> <br />
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Trickster: Coyotes, Rabbits, and Ravens, Oh My! <br />
March 2022 <br />
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Buffalo Tricks</i> by Alan Kilpatrick (Cherokee)<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> * & ** </span><br /><i>
GPS</i> by Lee Cataluna (Native Hawaiian) <br /><i>
Iktomoe and the Ducks</i> by Harrison Lowe (Navajo) <br /><i>
Morning Star</i> by Kat Laveaux (Cheyenne River Sioux) <br /><i>
The Shaman</i> by Montana Cypress (Miccosukkee Tribe of Indians of Florida) <br /><i>
Tricksters, Unite!</i> by Beth Piatote (Nez Perce) <br />
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*Winner <br />
*Audience Winner </span><br />
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NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES ~ FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS <br />
June 2022 <br />
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Bad Medicine</i> by P.C. Verrone (Osage, Kiowa) <br /><i>Four Women In Red</i> by Laura Shamas (Chickasaw) <br />
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NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY ~ LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART <br />
August 2022 <br /><br /><div>
<i>Flipping Stereotypes on Their Stilettos</i> by <br />
Tom Allard (Loyal Shawnee band of Cherokee Nation) <br />
Jennifer Bobiwash (Mississauga First Nation) <br />
Enrico Nassi (Otoe-Missouria Tribe, Cherokee) <br />
Katie Rich (Cherokee, Chickasaw) <br />
DeLanna Studi (Cherokee) <br />
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NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY ~ in association with LATINO THEATER COMPANY <br />
September 2022 <br />
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Desert Stories for Lost Girls</i> by Lily Rushing (Genízaro) <br />
Equity Production <br /> <br />
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NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES ~ 13th ANNUAL SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL<br />
Don't Mess with Auntie! <br /><br /></div><div>April 2022</div><div><br /><i>Leave the Gun...Take the Pie</i> by Jennifer Bobiwash (Mississauga First Nation) <br /><i>
Aunty is a Verb</i> by Lee Cataluna (Native Hawaiian) <span style="font-size: xx-small;">* & ** </span><br /><i>
The White Van</i> by Claude Jackson, Jr. (Gila River Indian Community) <br /><i>
A Likely Story</i> by Alan Kilpatrick (Cherokee) <br /><i>
Decoration Day</i> by Maddox Pennington (Cherokee and Choctaw) <br /><i>
Hauntie</i> by Lara Annette (Anishinaabe (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and Red Lake Nation) <br />
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*Winner <br />
*Audience Winner </span><br />
</div>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-47476494955183658642022-09-01T08:51:00.000-07:002023-06-01T11:35:02.221-07:00Desert Stories for Lost Girls <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Native Voices</span> in collaboration with
Latino Theater Company proudly present
Desert Stories for Lost Girls by Lily Rushing (Genízaro), a haunting and lyrical rumination on family, identity, and colonialism over generations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVyXy3OWpJya3RBT3Kn9WSUDwzvRYSgs8Ba7fQWVoxOtcVA8ViC54xJfEhU7yu4zacLqvJXI6FY8n-lyKoyWjIKmvuVkzeqBXchEVZL8BqaP3WLw1gm-NqVPiI7HP1C4RBkIJ2v9oaEZokhCpRP6qhEftLSHnTetDxSyED0LskTGRWcTmpHCrgnv0B/s1080/desrt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVyXy3OWpJya3RBT3Kn9WSUDwzvRYSgs8Ba7fQWVoxOtcVA8ViC54xJfEhU7yu4zacLqvJXI6FY8n-lyKoyWjIKmvuVkzeqBXchEVZL8BqaP3WLw1gm-NqVPiI7HP1C4RBkIJ2v9oaEZokhCpRP6qhEftLSHnTetDxSyED0LskTGRWcTmpHCrgnv0B/s320/desrt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">September 30 – October 16 at
Los Angeles Theatre Center </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays: 8:00 p.m.
Sundays: 4:00 p.m. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> DESERT STORIES FOR LOST GIRLS by </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lily Rushing (Genízaro), </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Directed by Sylvia Cervantes Blush presented by Native Voices at the Autry and Latino Theater Co. at The LATC continue until Oct 16th. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Scenic & Props Design by
Christopher Scott Murillo </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lighting & Projection Design by
Derek Christiansen and Ruby O'Brien </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Costume Design by Lorna Bowen </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sound Design by Mia Glen </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Production Stage Manager
Maricela Sahagún </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Assistant Stage Manager
Martha Espinoza </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dramaturg Courtney Mohler </div><div style="text-align: justify;">TD: Wayne Nakasone, Ivan Robles</div><div style="text-align: justify;">and the entire LTC production team and Tamarra Sylber </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Scenic Artist: Orlando de la Paz/ Olan Paz </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">CAST: Carolyn Dunn (<span style="color: #26282a; text-align: left;">Cherokee, Mvskoke Creek, Tunica/Choctaw Biloxi, Creole), </span>Tom Allard, Brenda Banda, Samantha Bowling (Cherokee, mixed)</span>, Rainbow Dickerson, Katie Anvil Rich (Cherokee and Chickasaw), and Glenn Stanton </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZjI6CCb5WaH1Lg1eAYblldvyleoqd7UqIay_VgLzeqvkOmJf6qzJ9W1BtU1xbIHSJHdPEryx3MhJ5QSXiPsawjBVAa1w-SIDoTV-Dxc8-wQvoMrP-O5JRKXpW6GrkU4T8OBNGv6PHVXUhR_mPvcSUA6pupAiGBbWICQ_KE3wEWHA43N_YMcn6YwkB/s1440/dsflg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1440" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZjI6CCb5WaH1Lg1eAYblldvyleoqd7UqIay_VgLzeqvkOmJf6qzJ9W1BtU1xbIHSJHdPEryx3MhJ5QSXiPsawjBVAa1w-SIDoTV-Dxc8-wQvoMrP-O5JRKXpW6GrkU4T8OBNGv6PHVXUhR_mPvcSUA6pupAiGBbWICQ_KE3wEWHA43N_YMcn6YwkB/w640-h426/dsflg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PC: Grettel Cortes and Derek Christiansen</div>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-71571404615175614462021-12-31T10:37:00.002-08:002023-08-25T10:15:34.105-07:002021<div style="text-align: left;">NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES </div><div style="text-align: left;">April 2021 - Virtual/Radio Drama</div><div><br />
<i>The New Adventures of Super Indian </i>by Arigon Starr (Kickapoo)<br />Equity Production</div><div><br />NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES<br />27th FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS<br />June 2021 - Virtual</div><div><br /><i>
Real Time: The Remix</i> by Jaisey Bates (Huron heritage’d)</div><div><i>Arbeka</i> by Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma)</div><div><i>K’kali</i> by June Thiele (Athabascan/Yup’ik)</div><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-f16e4fde-7fff-028f-eae9-31693a426101"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NATIVE VOICES at THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES<br />FIRST LOOK SERIES</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">October 2021</span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Yuchewahkenh (Bitter)</i> by Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div>NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES <br /> 11th ANNUAL SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL~HOME</div><div><br />November 2021<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-f788d526-7fff-f016-50da-60f3502fcc14"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9-1-1 Comanchería</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche)<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Come Home</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker (Kanaka Maoli)<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From There to Here</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Ryffin Phoenix (Navajo, Omaha)<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Knoll</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Jeff D’Hondt (Lenape, Six Nations of the Grand River)<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ohana Unit</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Lee Cataluna (Native Hawaiian)<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Olivia</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Claude Jackson, Jr. (Gila River Indian Community)<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sourwood</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Alan Kilpatrick (Cherokee)<br /></span><span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where Horses Wear Prom Dresses</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Diane Glancy (Cherokee)</span></span></span></div></span></div><p></p>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-78805843119715808472021-06-14T09:16:00.001-07:002021-06-14T09:16:25.782-07:00Native Voices Presents: 27th Festival of New Plays<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0gmHJiSmnMPUHjC57NodbLocHJjUdhJ1BAV7iMMcJSqVlZkvR6Pq9bYqIXhnwQ0ifn5GZdpo6WfxnbfrQapQdzzJcjxnFHXHzymE4HALJdSUkktXKnIywWa2HdXKyu72v58cOMw7ovw/s601/Graphic+-+27th+FNP+-+Copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="601" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0gmHJiSmnMPUHjC57NodbLocHJjUdhJ1BAV7iMMcJSqVlZkvR6Pq9bYqIXhnwQ0ifn5GZdpo6WfxnbfrQapQdzzJcjxnFHXHzymE4HALJdSUkktXKnIywWa2HdXKyu72v58cOMw7ovw/w640-h328/Graphic+-+27th+FNP+-+Copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-527c7f5e-7fff-949a-ff71-ddd6e1c89042"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">K’kali by June Thiele (Athabascan/Yup’ik)</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tuesday, June 15, 5:00 p.m. PDT </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A magical modern tale of a queer Indigenous artist who wrestles with her culture, identity, relationships...and perhaps a real-life monster. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline;">Arbeka by Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma)</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, June 22, 5:00 p.m. PDT </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Can one truly go home again? Hokte Tiger is about to find out when she returns to the Arbeka grounds in Oklahoma. After a decade in Hollywood, Hokte must confront past tragedies, mistakes, and wounds. Does she have what it takes to be a Tiger?</span></p><br /><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline;">When We Breathe by Jaisey Bates (Huron heritage’d)</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, June 29, 5:00 p.m. PDT </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Four paths cross in a sacred, storied land where every breath is a riot of beauty—a revolutionary act of courage grit grace faith fire. </span></p></span></div></span>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-79039195836785722132020-12-31T09:12:00.000-08:002023-06-01T11:33:36.686-07:002020 NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES<br />
March 2020 - Closing weekend Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic<br />
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<i>Lying with Badgers</i> by Jason Grasl (Blackfeet)<br />
Equity Production/World Premiere<br />
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NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES ~ PLAYWRIGHTS RETREAT & FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS - <b>Virtual</b><br />
June 2020<div><br /><i>
Under a Big Sky</i> by Randy Reinholz </div><div><i>Native Pride (and Prejudice)</i> by Vera Starbard </div><div><i>Antíkoni</i> by Beth Piatote</div><div><br />
NATIVE VOICES AT THE AUTRY, LOS ANGELES ~ 10th ANNUAL SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL</div><div>More than Moccasins<br />
November 2020 - <b>Virtual </b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><i>10 Gallon Hat</i> by Jennifer Bobiwash (Mississauga First Nation)</div><i>Crocophile</i> by Austen Brauker (Little River Band of Ottawa Indians)<br /><i>Funeral Attire</i> by Lee Cataluna (Native Hawaiian)*<br /><i>Thresholds and Threads</i> by Camaray Davalos (Pechanga)**<br /><i>Savage Metal</i> by Claude Jackson, Jr. (Gila River Indian Community)<br /><i>Standford Indian</i> by James Lujan (Taos Pueblo)<br /><i>Patchwork </i>by Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma)<br /><i>Four Women </i>by Laura Shamas (Chickasaw)<br /><i>Slow your Roll</i> by Patric Carroll Williams (Osage/Kiowa)<br />
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</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Winner</span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**Audience Winner</span><br /></div>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-17181548811911564872020-11-13T22:37:00.001-08:002020-11-13T22:37:00.261-08:00Jennifer Bobiwash - Playwright<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jennifer Bobiwash</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-867a6a50-7fff-adc7-ee53-0694fb83d4dd"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWzikfeo0hKoQrJqKooRG3MKfdQvL92ENUXNykvcWVS4JAHyey0cFDVGIycc4ItUrtVxuSCpW_nwUfmYYXJLHCDwfanmdeoQ_60OuVdpoqHBrhQSMLg0PS5Kv5NUo5sni3tutqc-mToiA/s2000/photo_BobiwashJ.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWzikfeo0hKoQrJqKooRG3MKfdQvL92ENUXNykvcWVS4JAHyey0cFDVGIycc4ItUrtVxuSCpW_nwUfmYYXJLHCDwfanmdeoQ_60OuVdpoqHBrhQSMLg0PS5Kv5NUo5sni3tutqc-mToiA/s320/photo_BobiwashJ.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your heritage (whatever that means to you)?<br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am an enrolled member of the Mississauga First Nation and grew up on Robinson Huron Treaty Territory.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where will you be watching the play from?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The parking lot of the Autry or the south lawn. I think wifi reaches that far.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this your first time at Native Voices?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is my first time in the Short Play Festival but I have had my play at the Festival of New Plays.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compels you to write?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> You might as well ask why I breathe.... Jk jk. Writing is a way to reclaim my culture and heritage. Something that has been stolen and re-written by others. I am compelled to reclaim stories that people refuse to hear or to pay attention to. Questions and comments that happen in everyday life are opportunities to tell a fuller story.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do your characters have lives outside of the slice you are showing here?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My characters have quite a fascinating life outside of this 10 minutes. Imagining the conversations that brought us to this moment and what happens after they leave keeps me up at night. How do you present these conversations? What ways can you tell their stories?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does listening to a stage reading of your play help? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listening to my play being read is helpful because I can sometimes think I am the most hilarious person out there and laugh as I read it, but when it’s read by others, you see if they get and if they can relate to your story. Hearing it allows me to make tweaks and stronger choices depending on how it is read to make sure what I am trying to say is being understood. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Where can people find you on Social Media?</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/JenniferBobiwash" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.Facebook.com/JenniferBobiwash</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Bobiwash" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter</span></a><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> & Instagram </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bobiwash/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">@Bobiwash </a></span></p><div><br /></div></span>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-18051627948787292392020-11-09T03:00:00.028-08:002020-11-09T03:00:10.655-08:00Tara Moses - Playwright<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjle5ceu1wq0HmfArDaXpd4fiWc-A6UqzQP54-S6YVFX5EFHn8eCMmhFujRw_7Tttq6dp94l6uGMDrq7519_WUyk-to6Xy0Az6EoHm4mZM2VKjZZnD8IIcQvaWJkFA_eOuRz7AkLOZLwqY/s454/Photo_Moses.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjle5ceu1wq0HmfArDaXpd4fiWc-A6UqzQP54-S6YVFX5EFHn8eCMmhFujRw_7Tttq6dp94l6uGMDrq7519_WUyk-to6Xy0Az6EoHm4mZM2VKjZZnD8IIcQvaWJkFA_eOuRz7AkLOZLwqY/s320/Photo_Moses.png" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;">TARA MOSES</span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8043a2e-7fff-1f43-bdf8-a1c524ff7462"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your heritage (whatever that means to you)?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am a citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and I also am Mvskoke. Heritage feels like such a distant word for me, as my "Nativeness" is not in the past. I am fully a contemporary tribal citizen. I am not of Seminole and Mvskoke "heritage"; I just simply am Seminole and Mvskoke.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where will you be watching the play from?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Muscogee Creek Reservation (or what was formerly known as Tulsa, Oklahoma)! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this your first time at Native Voices?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nope, my second! My play </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quantum</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was part of the 25th Annual New Play Festival in 2019, and I am thrilled to be back! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compels you to write?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The stories of my family, my lived experiences as a Native woman in this country at this point in time, and the spirits of my ancestors before me. I am never able to write alone.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do your characters have lives outside of the slice you are showing here?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh do they. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patchwork</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> takes place nearly one year after my full-length play </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arbeka</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. There is just something about this family that I love so much (perhaps because these people are truly based on my own family members), so I am trying to create my own "Marvel Universe", or shall I say my "Pancake Universe". I am currently considering writing the "origin story" set in the summer of 1975 for an upcoming residency. So y'all stay tuned. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does listening to a stage reading of your play help?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It really allows me to hear where the holes are, where the moments of confusion are, and how strongly the heart of the play beats. When we aren't online, being able to see and hear the audiences' reactions is a huge help to those three questions. For digital readings, I get so much value and knowledge from audiences who utilize the comment sections in real time. In short, these stories are meant to be experienced in community, not just in my living room. (Also being able to share plays publically in some way also helps when it comes to the future life of the work, but I would say that the aspects of community contributing to the development from the director, dramaturg, and cast to the audience is the most valuable.) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where can people find you on Social Media?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On <a href="https://twitter.com/taratomahawk" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/taratomahawk/" target="_blank">Instagram </a>I am @taratomahawk. I also have a LinkedIn if you're so inclined.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-23000836829968225472020-11-08T02:30:00.028-08:002020-11-08T02:30:00.349-08:00James Lujan - Playwright<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBjFnRLJML_DS9YPV8NMDRxIxP33IXTJKO48MqqAlszJ0Yx8a3T9ZpwoOaT-DUm3wLKD3JjoJay4NGndzTegUXXQktAQB21xUVu0VNGJBiiJvku7NB_HPBKsvZVgW4IWKUGgwlLpOe-M/s2000/Photo_Lujan%252CJ.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1903" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBjFnRLJML_DS9YPV8NMDRxIxP33IXTJKO48MqqAlszJ0Yx8a3T9ZpwoOaT-DUm3wLKD3JjoJay4NGndzTegUXXQktAQB21xUVu0VNGJBiiJvku7NB_HPBKsvZVgW4IWKUGgwlLpOe-M/s320/Photo_Lujan%252CJ.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">James Lujan<br /></span></span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-73b9ded5-7fff-5094-ae71-d965ae40020e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your heritage (whatever that means to you)?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Descendant of the Pueblo Revolt.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where will you be watching the play from?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From 850 miles away, in Santa Fe.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this your first time at Native Voices?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the seventh, by my count.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compels you to write?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ego and foolishness.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do your characters have lives outside of the slice you are showing here?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If they do, they haven't fold me.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does listening to a stage reading of your play help? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It helps me to know I'm putting some Native actors to work.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where can people find you on Social Media?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Theycan't.com</span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-797579362174653812020-11-07T03:00:00.027-08:002020-11-07T03:00:00.292-08:00Claude Jackson Jr. - Playwright<p><span style="font-family: times;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">CLAUDE JACKSON JR.</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5c3f5ec-7fff-bb96-ff9e-cb6b38139bb0"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 5pt 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your heritage (whatever that means to you)?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pima Indian (O’Otham), Hopi and Mexican. That firmly describes my Arizona background.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where will you be watching the play from?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ll be watching it from home. Sort of weird considering I’ve been to every Short Play festival at the Autry when I was competing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUvScSWaoU5cjzaQaBb4fcONN79Dddqlor2G5_iSGbXneFQ8mNv_hHzFY-33tvtiJnP725ma3Co2M91aKmRq2XaCWP0DNMjyf5xR9sbOVCkBbfgJ3G66ogd95JSqAOvwn8MjZBWJlVF0/s350/Photo_Jackson.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUvScSWaoU5cjzaQaBb4fcONN79Dddqlor2G5_iSGbXneFQ8mNv_hHzFY-33tvtiJnP725ma3Co2M91aKmRq2XaCWP0DNMjyf5xR9sbOVCkBbfgJ3G66ogd95JSqAOvwn8MjZBWJlVF0/s320/Photo_Jackson.jpg" /></span></a></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this your first time at Native Voices?</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This will be my 6th time.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compels you to write?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s fun. Everyone is a storyteller. My specialty happens to be the written word.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do your characters have lives outside of the slice you are showing here?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, I tried to show that they have lives outside of the slice I presented here. From that, I welcome the audience to fill in the blanks as they see it..</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does listening to a stage reading of your play help?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s helpful and entertaining. Helpful because you get an idea what these professional actors and directors interpret my words. Sometimes they see exactly what I saw in the work. Other times, they surprise me with their interpretation. Plus, I just enjoy watching a theater group applying their craft. That’s the entertainment value I so enjoy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where can people find you on Social Media?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook, Instagram,Twitter and Tik Tok (but I’m 48 years old. I probably will never post a video on Tik Tok). You can find me as “Claude Jackson” or “claudeberg.”</span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-90909159801980566842020-11-06T03:00:00.039-08:002020-11-06T03:00:00.348-08:00Camaray Davalos - Playwright<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOEDw7F4L-5DasUsv1yycZ2l4f2tkK_S-ENQfaTMDK9bHYn6KV8YQY5dpvgyT3CCqAc47Ttrmx3Val_hFBXN3ZIDr7eZLP6XMjrBIa9IHp6XZiF5hcCnlT-BvQccPSXSZjsqv4RjfFQk/s542/Photo_Davalos.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="497" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOEDw7F4L-5DasUsv1yycZ2l4f2tkK_S-ENQfaTMDK9bHYn6KV8YQY5dpvgyT3CCqAc47Ttrmx3Val_hFBXN3ZIDr7eZLP6XMjrBIa9IHp6XZiF5hcCnlT-BvQccPSXSZjsqv4RjfFQk/s320/Photo_Davalos.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;">Camaray Davalos<br /></span><p></p><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-d15bbc9b-7fff-6795-7220-2fcc67b2307a">What is your heritage?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am Indigenous (Payómkawichum), Mexican, Cuban, Jewish, and Irish. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where will you be watching the play from?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Good question! Most likely at home with my partner, our cats, and some hot apple cider.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this your first time at Native Voices?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was part of the short play fest last year, and am super happy to be back this year.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compels you to write?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My innate need for creative expression and connection. When I am writing I am essentially trying to say “This is me, this is how I feel..Do you feel this way too sometimes?” I also feel responsible to write about issues or things that people might not know about, to use storytelling as a means of spreading awareness.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do your characters have lives outside of the slice you are showing here?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is an interesting question. I suppose they do, since part of this play is based on actual events/dialogue! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does listening to a stage reading of your play help?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve found that the way I write and imagine a scene is sometimes so different from how it’s actually performed...but I enjoy that. I think listening to a staged reading of my play helps me become open to interpretations, and even critiques. Also the way the audience reacts is humbling, and helps me understand what affects people, what makes them laugh, etc.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where can people find you on social media?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am on instagram as </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/piwiishology/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@Piwiishology</span></a><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> :)</span></span>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-44233047077932679352020-11-05T04:00:00.002-08:002020-11-05T20:01:32.163-08:00Laura Shamas - Playwright<p><span style="font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;">LAURA SHAMAS</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-528154e2-7fff-1b85-29ca-7a9f8ee220bd"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 30pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your heritage (whatever that means to you)?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was born in Oklahoma. I am a member of the Chickasaw Nation. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCKwsl1ha4G4bA_sccO6cjIW29qBs3Lg1ni3RToyOSm_jQtde9YlLrvmHoSxUAZ1_pnuZN68zmmRtHQqX35UdimptZZGihvV3XAaA20bBJCsUgcwV2C2xnws_wTV32rxhMBPoeRp206zk/s1280/Photo_Shamas%252C+L..jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCKwsl1ha4G4bA_sccO6cjIW29qBs3Lg1ni3RToyOSm_jQtde9YlLrvmHoSxUAZ1_pnuZN68zmmRtHQqX35UdimptZZGihvV3XAaA20bBJCsUgcwV2C2xnws_wTV32rxhMBPoeRp206zk/s320/Photo_Shamas%252C+L..jpeg" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where will you be watching the play from?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Los Angeles</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this your first time at Native Voices?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No! It is my fourth time. I love Native Voices. Everyone needs to support Native Voices! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compels you to write?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can only write when I have something to say. I feel very strongly about #MMIW, the topic of my short play.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do your characters have lives outside of the slice you are showing here?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honestly, I don’t know yet. Maybe? This was a first draft and I‘m grateful to have a chance to work on it with a dramaturg, actors, and a director before the November performances.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does listening to a stage reading of your play help? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is so helpful, so important. For me, a play doesn’t come alive until actors and a director are involved. So a reading gives a play its life.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where can people find you on Social Media?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border-bottom: 0.75pt solid rgb(241, 241, 245); line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only on Twitter: </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://twitter.com/LauraShamas" style="text-decoration-line: none;">@LauraShamas</a></span></span></p><div><br /></div></span>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-47109523937370625662020-11-04T04:30:00.007-08:002020-11-05T20:00:25.912-08:00LEE CATALUNA - Playwright <p><span style="font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;">LEE CATALUNA<br /></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-bfdbc182-7fff-b7e6-b014-3a59309ef236" style="font-family: times;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your heritage?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am of Native Hawaiian descent. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where will you be watching the play from?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'll be watching from my house on Oahu. </span></p></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixJwzAtlBaMhUXSGe7jPDy3yK57KmBpkXJ-pa38UxVlLAnev-weqO7RhWl_r_GYfh8Wo_16Uc8ymhCgbXaVNizTdzS2llJrYVP2J8rQoU6ZwwQGxkObocql7-k9HFExI9uA6bgD5a5YWY/s1019/Photo_Cataluna.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1019" data-original-width="894" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixJwzAtlBaMhUXSGe7jPDy3yK57KmBpkXJ-pa38UxVlLAnev-weqO7RhWl_r_GYfh8Wo_16Uc8ymhCgbXaVNizTdzS2llJrYVP2J8rQoU6ZwwQGxkObocql7-k9HFExI9uA6bgD5a5YWY/s320/Photo_Cataluna.jpg" /></a></div><p></p></span></blockquote><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this your first time at Native Voices?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was so grateful to be part of Native Voices 2019 Playwrights Retreat and 25th annual Festival of New Plays with my script FLOWERS OF HAWAII. It was a deeply affecting, extremely rewarding learning experience.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compels you to write?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was born, my grandmother wrote a story for me as a gift. She didn't just make up a story, she put it down on paper. My grandmother had only an 8th grade education, but she didn't think that meant she couldn't be a writer. She had a story to tell and she told it. She set a strong example for me. I still have the pages written in her hand.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do your characters have lives outside of the slice you are showing here?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The theme of the short play festival really resonated with me, and when I was asked by another theater company to write a play for them for their virtual season this fall, I turned to the idea of traditional clothing. That play is called ALOHA ATTIRE, which is a term that appears on invitations to indicate that the event isn't formal but is still dressy. The brothers in this piece appear in that play, though they have different names, are much younger and are fighting over the affections of the same girl.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does listening to a stage reading of your play help?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plays come alive in the hands of the actors and in the minds of the audience members. When a play is just an idea in the playwright's head or a bunch of pages in a file, it's hard to know it's true potential. A staged reading is often the first time a writer understands what they have (good or bad!) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where can people find you on Social Media?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.leecataluna.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.leecataluna.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instagram </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/leecat808/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">leecat808</a></span></span></p><div><br /></div></span>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-25628463451236997232020-11-03T02:30:00.000-08:002020-11-03T02:30:05.182-08:00Austen Brauker - Playwright<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOGLfWTy9ZOjtD5oWSssm1HuFp1mLUz6H-KUkYFbS2pRR4t5aEevD77iqwUJbp55OZyECtk_Ww1DugsrQdkgsK8BVlp-EIEe00Es5RBEnO91M0F7xHFtyQbS5J3ZRD0oCW0b2SvVNj0M/s659/photo_Brauker.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="659" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOGLfWTy9ZOjtD5oWSssm1HuFp1mLUz6H-KUkYFbS2pRR4t5aEevD77iqwUJbp55OZyECtk_Ww1DugsrQdkgsK8BVlp-EIEe00Es5RBEnO91M0F7xHFtyQbS5J3ZRD0oCW0b2SvVNj0M/s320/photo_Brauker.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0cc5bca4-7fff-6454-d87c-30c6daa952bb"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your heritage (whatever that means to you)?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am a human being. The Earth is my nurturing energetic mother. My biological mother is Odawa and German. My biological father is Irish and maybe a mix of other European tribes. In the lodge all people are the same color of spirit, and though I appreciate the sentiment of racial pride, it seems like a blockage point for most people, and cements divisive ties to race or nation instead of bringing people together in a meaningful way to defy the old descriptions and come up with a new way to view ourselves as a species, not just racial divisions within the species. I believe that the wolves, bears and trees are valid citizens as well, and that they are as much my tribe as any human being, because we need them, along with the plants too, to survive.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where will you be watching the Festival from?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.518; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will be watching from Red Bluff, California.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this your first time at Native Voices?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.518; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is my first time working with Native Voices, though I have been writing for a long time. I have been more involved in screenplays than theatrical presentations. I also write poetry and short stories, and have written two feature novels. I have completed 5 feature screenplays and have several shorter ones that I am working on.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.518; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compels you to write?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.518; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nothing compels me. I do it or I don’t. Sometimes I go years between writing. I will make music for a year, then do paintings and physical art for a while, then back to writing. I don’t care to become famous or rich, so I do what I want when I want for who I want. This is artistic freedom. I have no goals for accolades or cash. I have no care for what anyone else thinks of my work, either they like it or they don’t. Honest art is awesome. Art made just to sell is shallow trash.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do your characters have lives outside of the slice you are showing here?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.518; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most of my characters are either dead, in jail, or in some kind of rehabilitational facility working or whatever issue it was that made them interesting in the first place, seeking the hiding place that a label normalcy might provide. Other characters are medicated beyond communication, and still others have not been caught, and are hiding in the shadows waiting to count coup on themselves when their backs are turned.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does listening to a stage reading of your play help?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.518; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It shows whether or not people are laughing and crying in the right places, or at least the intended places. It draws severe attention to crappy dialog. It highlights expository monolog narratives that drive plot through descriptions rather than actions. A live read is good for testing one’s mettle. Editing is where the real writing happens, and a person must be able to take the scalpel to their work, unflinchingly cutting off arms legs and faces, piecing it all back together, until the best monster can be stitched together from the Shellian/Frankenstonian fragments.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where can people find you on Social Media?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.518; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hiding. But really, just type a search. Too many places to count. Youtube. Spotify. Itunes. All over. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-7160244258002251202020-11-02T19:05:00.009-08:002020-11-05T19:59:46.637-08:00 Patric Carroll Williams - Playwright<p><span style="font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patric Carroll Williams</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNgaaOF2jyJgTq3KQs1p0ZBPxqFv-x1DdbkfGmFWfx8JB9njIACrg3ItgADrA1MaE0hEZPSUSC1F3h-HI_t6IrOf_SWps6XcM1TXs9M8GT0u28u6RusXLZpCzuzyTDJE227-BoDPdXyK0/s2048/Photo_Williams%252CP.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNgaaOF2jyJgTq3KQs1p0ZBPxqFv-x1DdbkfGmFWfx8JB9njIACrg3ItgADrA1MaE0hEZPSUSC1F3h-HI_t6IrOf_SWps6XcM1TXs9M8GT0u28u6RusXLZpCzuzyTDJE227-BoDPdXyK0/s320/Photo_Williams%252CP.jpg" /></a></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-24c31cb3-7fff-6bf2-c74a-991b2907f405" style="font-family: times;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your heritage (whatever that means to you)?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am a descendant of the Kiowa and Osage people, and I also have African American and Italian American heritage.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where will you be watching the play from?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ll be watching from my parents’ home in LA.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this your first time at Native Voices?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is my second time at Native Voices. My play “The Tamale Man” was featured in the 2018 Short Play Festival.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compels you to write?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am compelled to write as a way of exploring and amplifying underrepresented facets of our history and culture, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">uplifting marginalized stories that I feel speak to my own identities as a queer, mixed-race person living in America.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do your characters have lives outside of the slice you are showing here?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t know yet. A lot of my characters have a funny way of meeting me again in other things I write, so there may well be more to these sisters’ stories.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How does listening to a stage reading of your play help?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s sort of like buying clothes online versus trying them on yourself. As a playwright, you can approximate how your words will transform when they’re performed, but it isn’t until they’re given life by actors that you actually see your work as it’s meant to be presented. Then, it is much easier to know where things need to be hemmed or taken in to create your intended vision.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where can people find you on Social Media?</span></p><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can find me on Twitter </span><a href="https://twitter.com/patriccarrollwv" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@patriccarrollwv </span></a><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or on Instagram </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/pat.the.carroll/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@pat.the.carroll</span></a><span style="color: #1d2228; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if you’re interested in my political ramblings, silly memes, and photos of what I’ve been baking.</span></span>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-44392024722330150532020-06-01T11:48:00.003-07:002023-06-01T11:50:30.812-07:002020-Virtual Short Play Festival<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChnHtvPtEji2mduFyzDC5boQSTqbgp0ie-MWFk7EtGtvWAZ6xC7VyzkmvdGRyPoUdBS2x3rEIXLsrv2kyL-0CTla-heuzLOUjOHg0qCam-07AKjdg7GJ3WnsOXwAwW78jDGj-3q7U5eb67Hb6abufVSeIGAgDSMrbiMfifRuoIueTCJu1g4esnJ5I/s1493/10th.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="1493" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChnHtvPtEji2mduFyzDC5boQSTqbgp0ie-MWFk7EtGtvWAZ6xC7VyzkmvdGRyPoUdBS2x3rEIXLsrv2kyL-0CTla-heuzLOUjOHg0qCam-07AKjdg7GJ3WnsOXwAwW78jDGj-3q7U5eb67Hb6abufVSeIGAgDSMrbiMfifRuoIueTCJu1g4esnJ5I/w640-h372/10th.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Native Voices pivoted to an online festival.</p>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-61510131920608435852020-05-01T11:53:00.001-07:002023-06-01T08:54:25.035-07:002020 Virtual Playwrights Retreat Auditions<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;">
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<li><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Send to</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"> eblandford@theautry.org</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"> by May 6 2020.</span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">At this time, we will not have public staged readings or internet broadcasts of the table reads. The following schedules are for play development alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">Liz Leaf is 32 and a freelance artist in New York City with a recent gallery exhibition. When she returns to Whitefish, Montana for a family birthday celebration, she unearths secrets and is confronted with new realities. One of which includes the possibility of her mother, Velma Leaf’s, demise. Now Liz is forced to decide between pursuing the dreams of her youth – the dreams that shaped her identity – or returning to help her mother and her mother’s partner, Sunshine King, as they confront some hard realities. Liz discovers that she is mixed race, the two partners of Glacier Designs – already life-partners, Velma and Sunshine - want to claim their own LGBT identity in spite of the less-than-open-minded Whitefish, Montana culture. Gil Benson walks into Liz’s life offering hope, new choices and lucrative work. Glacier Designs intern, Ronnie Watts, keeps the firm running during the crises and becomes close with Liz. While Ronnie and Liz learn that they have many commonalities, the emotional distance between Whitefish and the neighboring Blackfeet Reservation, where Ronnie resides, is a vast gulf.</span></span></div>
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this wickedly funny new comedy, a magically charged world is ignited
by wise-cracking spirit animals brought to life by puppets
as estranged brothers of the Blackfeet Nation are pitted against one
another in a fierce debate over the personal and economic issues
Native people face today on their sovereign land. While exploiting mineral
rights could provide economic relief for the tribe, it could also destroy
sacred land. Traditions are challenged, allegiances are tested, and
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ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-73649245912886298112020-02-26T05:00:00.000-08:002020-02-26T05:00:07.061-08:00Meet the Cast - Lying with Badgers - Dana Pacheco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Your Name: Dana Pacheco </div>
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Character in the show: Tara Torres </div>
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How is this character like you? Different? </div>
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Tara and I are very similar. We're both actors, who love tequila. Jkjk. Tara is “a helper”. She’s always trying to insert herself in other peoples business, because she is an empath, even sometimes to a fault. </div>
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Your first acting gig was: </div>
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When I first moved to LA, I booked a Samsung commercial where I played a cavewoman. I love special effects makeup and being able to physically morph into a role, while working with talented artists. </div>
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Favorite Theatre experience as an audience member: </div>
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The Newsies at the Pantages. I sang every song and couldn't keep still in my chair! My siblings and I LOVE the film. Growing up we'd sing and dance in the living room to the VHS tape we recorded when it was on TV. </div>
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When you have a five-minute break during rehearsal, what do you spend that time doing? </div>
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I like to get to know my cast-mates, on a personal level. But if I'm not in a chatty mood, I like to look at photos of the people I love or vacations we've taken together. Right now I’m obsessed with my new nephew, so I watch a lot a video of him. Just a quick trip down memory lane, to keep my soul fed. </div>
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What do you do when you’re not doing theatre? </div>
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Professionally, I'm a voice and on camera actor, but I also produce and write, and work with kids. Personally, I love going to concerts, playing and watching sports, hiking, and singing punk rock songs at karaoke. </div>
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If you had a magic wand, what show would you do next? </div>
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I'd LOVE to have a reunion show with my sketch comedy group, Awkward Kids. We've produced and performed some epic shows, and I miss it. </div>
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Where can we find you on IG: @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/danapacheco/" target="_blank">danapacheco </a></div>
ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-78017575146218828842020-02-24T03:30:00.000-08:002020-02-24T03:30:05.266-08:00Meet the Cast - LYING WITH BADGERS - Stephanie Childers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Your Name: Stephanie Childers<br />
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Character in the show: Crystal<br />
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How is this character like you? Different?<br />
Neither of us has ever skinned an animal. I am a nature lover (Crystal is not).<br />
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Your first acting gig was:<br />
I had one line in the Music Man in 5th grade, and I LOVED it.<br />
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Favorite Theatre experience as an audience member:<br />
Many years ago, I saw a production of The Cider House Rules in Chicago directed by David Cromer. It was so moving. I still think about it.<br />
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When you have a five-minute break during rehearsal, what do you spend that time doing? Eating.<br />
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What do you do when you’re not doing theatre?<br />
I ride around Los Angeles with my husband in our food truck.<br />
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If you had a magic wand, what show would you do next?<br />
It would be a play based on a true story about how we all saved Democracy.<br />
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Where can we find you on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chilisteph/" target="_blank">chilisteph</a>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-64457006719183393982020-02-21T03:30:00.000-08:002020-02-21T03:30:02.146-08:00Meet the Cast - LYING WITH BADGERS - Duane Minard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Your Name: Duane Minard<br />
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Character in the show: Father / Bear<br />
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How is this character like you? Disciplined man <br />
Different? I can communicate in more ways than my character.<br />
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Your first acting gig was: Ysidro, in the Ramona Pageant<br />
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Favorite Theatre experience as an audience member: Carmen<br />
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What can make my character / performance bettter, Lines, or going over blocking.<br />
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What do you do when you’re not doing theatre? PI Work<br />
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If you had a magic wand, what show would you do next? Mine own :)<br />
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Where can we find you on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/duaneminard/" target="_blank">duaneminard</a>ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-25711291187937546642020-02-16T03:00:00.000-08:002020-02-16T03:00:04.432-08:00Meet the Director - Lying with Badgers - Randy Reinholz<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b>Where did you start as a director?</b></div>
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I was so lucky as an actor to work with directors who had or went on to have spectacular careers. As a young actor, I was not always the center of attention. I was able to learn from others, I was able to observe wonderful directors working with actors, which is what I thought directing entailed. Then, as my university career grew into directing productions, I said YES to opportunities. I added the essential elements of collaboration with the whole creative team of designers, dramaturges, vocal coaches and choreographers to my process. I was so grateful for such smart collaborators bringing understanding and possibility to the world of the show. Finally, Native Voices allowed me to work intimately with playwrights, for 26 years. I had always admired playwrights, but the collaborative process of working with the creators of the world is exquisite. I love new plays. I love the old stories, and the intersection between the ancient and needs of our world today is profound.</div>
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<b>What really excites you about theater?</b></div>
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Theatre excites me when people come together to focus on a story and the collaborative process reveals something compelling and moving. This process supports artists as they confront profound ideas that they didn’t truly understand before spending time together. These communal events are ancient, relevant, and life-changing.</div>
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<b>Advice to the young director? </b></div>
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Good directors work with people more talented than themselves. They listen to the big ideas in the room. They are prepared with as much information that pertains to the story as they can compile. They don’t talk too much, rather they listen. We never stop looking for the best answers to problems, trust your collaborators, and love as often as possible.</div>
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<b>Why do you create theater?</b></div>
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I create theatre to understand the truths of the world. Yes, there are multiple ways of living well and they set my spirit free. Listening to the ancient rhythms of life and reflecting them back to an audience is a wonderful gift. It can only happen when a number of creative, investigative people bring their complementary talents to bear as a meaningful story reveals how it can be told. The results of that process can heal hearts and souls, it can give hope to the forlorn, and it can reveal paths to those who long for more from life. The world is not fair and often unkind, yet we can sit in the dark and dream of worlds that let us be more fully who we are. </div>
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<b>What 3 things are needed for the healthy development of a new work? </b></div>
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Support for the playwright</div>
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Gifted, invested, collaborating artists</div>
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Cultural knowledge</div>
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Focus on a great story with undeniable issues told in compelling ways. Native people sing, dance, and laugh. Those qualities on stage release emotional experiences we crave, that can help us better understand the world.</div>
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Find him on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RandyReinholzPlaywrightDirector/" target="_blank">Facebook</a></div>
ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-34582029641851427152020-02-15T05:24:00.000-08:002020-02-15T05:24:06.688-08:00Meet the Playwright - Lying with Badgers - Jason Grasl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>When did you become interested in theatre and in writing plays?</b></div>
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I was a frog in a 2nd grade production. That was my first live theatre and I loved it. Then I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark and pointed to Indiana Jones and said to my dad "I want to do that!" He asked if I meant archaeology, and i said "no, I just like that Han Solo is swinging on vines and saving the day. That's what I want to do."</div>
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As far as writing plays, I had been acting for some time and just felt I had some ideas to tell a story I think I related to and others might relate to as well. Also, I was writing for a role I could play myself. Didn't know if I could or not. But I gave it a shot. That ended up being the first play I wrote, The Blame of Love, that ended up getting produced.</div>
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<b>What's the best way to come up with cool ideas for plays?</b></div>
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Personally, if I get curious about a certain obstacle or challenge from my own life or if I see others who have gone through something it starts my gears moving. Could this be the nugget of a story idea for me? Then I think about it for awhile to see if it's really appealing.</div>
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<b>What's your advice for someone who wants to write plays, but doesn't know how to start?</b></div>
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Start writing, or if you're going to procrastinate that part, at least put yourself out in the middle of all the life that's going on around you. You'll see something.</div>
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ndninlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17681197906524612408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7075052840410677899.post-73061028041838700682020-02-14T03:00:00.000-08:002020-02-14T03:00:06.912-08:00Meet the cast Lying with Badgers - Rob Vestal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your Name: Robert Vestal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Character in the show: Badger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How is this character like you? Different?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m a fan of the Chicago Bears. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(This will make sense after you see the show.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your first acting gig was:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A Midwest tour to schools of an adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Prince and The Pauper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Theatre experience as an audience member:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">An immersive moment in Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta when we were lead through a dark room with automatic flashlights and wound up in the gallows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When you have a five-minute break during rehearsal, what do you spend that time doing? Munching</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What do you do when you’re not doing theatre? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I work out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you had a magic wand, what show would you do next? Hamlet. (Yes, I’m too old, but you said, “Magic!”)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where can we find you on IG: @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/therobertvestal/" target="_blank">TheRobertVestal</a>. But you won’t actually find me there at all.</span></div>
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