Feb 6, 2019, 15:31 PM

Role : Playwright

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Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota) is an award-winning playwright. Larissa's produced plays include The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons, Artists Repertory Theatre), What Would Crazy Horse Do? (Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Relative Theatrics), Urban Rez (Cornerstone Theater Company, ASU Gammage, NEFA National tour 2019-20), Landless and Cow Pie Bingo (AlterTheater Ensemble), Average Family (Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis), Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders: A Class Presentation (Native Voices at the Autry), Vanishing Point (Eagle Project) and Cherokee Family Reunion (Mountainside Theatre). Additional theatres that have commissioned or developed plays with Larissa include Yale Repertory Theatre, History Theater, The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, Baltimore Center Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Perseverance Theatre, The Lark Playwrights Week, the L.A. Writers’ Workshop at Center Theatre Group and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Larissa’s awards include the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright, NEA Distinguished New Play Development Grant, Joe Dowling Annaghmakerrig Fellowship, AATE Distinguished Play Award, Inge Residency, Sundance/Ford Foundation Fellowship, Aurand Harris Fellowship, the UCLA Native American Program Woman of the Year and numerous Creative Capital, Ford, Mellon and NEA Grants. Larissa is the vice chair of the board of directors of Theater Communications Group and represented by Jonathan Mills at Paradigm NY. Photo by Conor Horgan. Visit www.hoganhorsestudio.com. Instagram: @larissafasthorse #thethanksgivingplay