(An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Playwright, Off the Rails
Other theatres: Producing artistic director and co-founder, with Jean Bruce Scott, of Native Voices at the Autry. Producer: The Frybread Queen, Walking on Turtle Island, Fairly Traceable, Kino & Teresa, Stand-Off at Hwy 37, Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders, Salvage, and Tales of an Urban Indian (Native Voices at the Autry). Director and producer: Urban Tattoo, Jump Kiss, Stone Heart, The Buz’Gem Blues, The Berlin Blues, They Don’t Talk Back, and Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light (Los Angeles, Alaska Native Heritage Center, The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Perseverance Theatre); The Red Road (Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., Adelaide and Brisbane, Australia).
Other credits: Directing: Blood at the Root, The Rez Sisters, Madame Mao, Carbon Black, The Waiting Room, Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Proof, The Glass Menagerie, Desire Under the Elms.
Teaching: Professor, School of Theatre, Television, and Film, San Diego State University.
Awards: Playwrights’ Arena’s Lee Melville Award.
Education: MFA, Cornell University; BA, William Jewell College.