Sovereignty runs approximately two and a half hours. A variety of pieces from the Squaxin Island Museum Library and Research Center will be on display in the State Theater lobby throughout May to coincide with the run. Keefe says she’s humbled and honored to explore Nagle’s “powerful work with this incredible team at Harlequin Productions.” Keefe, who plays Polson, is a Nez Perce actor and theater artist from Spokane, with a master of fine arts degree in performance from the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television and a bachelor of fine arts degre from The Theatre School, DePaul.
So much in it is triumphant.” Josephine Keefe (Polson) and Avery Clark (Ben) “It a great honor to be directing Nagle’s Sovereignty for Harlequin Productions,” Almazán says, “and I am thrilled to be making theater in Olympia. Lamb, in turn, invited Almazán to direct Sovereignty. Playwright, friend and fellow director Tara Moses asked Almazán if she could give her name to producers looking for directors, including, among others, Harlequin artistic director Aaron Lamb.
It also won an ariZoni Theatre Award of Excellence and was a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. A recipient of the Gammage Scholar Award, her play Indian School received the Kennedy Center Latinx Playwright Award for Distinguished Achievement. The play is directed for Harlequin Productions by Tucson, Arizona resident Esther Almazán of the Yaqui (or Yoeme) tribe. “The more we become humans that non-Natives have to interact with, the more difficult it becomes to justify a legal narrative that dehumanizes us.” “Most people have never seen an authentic Native person portrayed onstage,” Nagle told New Yorker writer Daniel Pollack-Pelzner. The majority of her work in court involves fighting for the inherent right of Indigenous nations to protect women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. She’s also one of the country’s most-produced Native playwrights. Playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, legal counsel for the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a partner at Pipestem Law, a firm specializing in the tribal sovereignty of Native nations and peoples. It’s history, romance and courtroom drama rolled into one. The climax comes when Polson argues her case before the Supreme Court. It follows the Cherokee Nation along the Trail of Tears from what is now Georgia to 21st-century Oklahoma. It’s an epic story that jumps back and forth in time from the 1830s through horrors wreaked on the nation by Andrew Jackson (Avery Clark, who also doubles as Sarah’s present-day fiancé). In doing so, she must wrestle with the actions of her ancestors while confronting the ghosts of her grandfathers. In Oklahoma in the early 2020s, a young Cherokee lawyer, Sarah Ridge Polson (Josephine Keefe), struggles to preserve the Violence Against Women Act’s restoration of her nation’s jurisdiction in a pivotal case before the U.S.
It’s producing Sovereignty, a historical drama about Native Americans, written and directed by Native Americans, performed by an ensemble of Native and non-Native actors, with direction, set, costume and lighting design by Native artists brought to Olympia from all over the United States.
Cindy was selected by Poets & Writers Magazine as a 2014 Notable Debut Poet for her collection the small claim of bones (Arizona State University/Bilingual Press), which placed second in the 2015 International Latino Book Awards.This spring, Olympia’s Harlequin Productions is doing something that’s never been done in this area. Her recent poetry collection, Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women, was awarded the 2018 Willow Books Editor’s Choice Poetry Selection and a 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship.
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This award-winning play was also produced at the Linkville Playhouse in Klamath Falls, OR and the Merc Playhouse in Twisp, WA in 2017 and recorded by OPB for Literary Arts’ Archive Project in 2018.Ĭindy’s play A Dialogue of Flower & Song was featured in the 2012 GEMELA (Spanish and Latin American Women’s Studies) Conference co-sponsored by the University of Portland and Portland State University. A recipient of the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Drama, her play Words That Burn premiered at Milagro Theatre in Portland, Oregon in 2014 in commemoration of the William Stafford Centennial, Hispanic Heritage Month, and the 70 th anniversary of FDR’s rescindment of Executive Order 9066 (incarcerating Japanese-Americans during WWII). Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez draws inspiration from the silent and silenced voices of history and herstory.
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