(she/her/hers)

Playwright, Manahatta

Other theatres: New York: Manahatta (New Work Now! series and Public Studio, The Public Theater, staged reading); Miss Lead (59E59); Sliver of a Full Moon (Joe’s Pub). Regional: Sovereignty (Arena Stage); Fairly Traceable (Native Voices at the Autry). 

Awards: 2008 TNT POPS Playwriting Contest winner, finalist in Reva Shriner Playwriting Contest and 2009–2010 Global Age Project (Welcome to Chalmette); NEA’s Challenge America Grant (Waaxe’s Law); finalist, 2014 William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting (Manahatta); 2015 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (Manahatta); 2015 Kilroy’s List (Manahatta). 

Commissions: Arena Stage; Rose Theater; Portland Center Stage; Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Yale Repertory Theatre. 

Affiliations: Citizen, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma; Partner, Pipestem Law P.C. (www.pipestemlaw.com); Executive Director, Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (http://yipap.yale.edu). 

Education: The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, 2012–2013; BA in Peace and Justice Studies, Georgetown University; Tulane Law School, Judge John Minor Wisdom Award recipient.