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How Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play Lays the Groundwork for Native Artists Like Me
Essay

How Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play Lays the Groundwork for Native Artists Like Me

28 August 2023

After directing Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play at her midwestern college, Indigenous theatremaker Sierra Rosetta traveled to New York to see the same play on Broadway. She discusses the way this milestone production—which made FastHorse the first known Native American woman playwright on Broadway—and her own work push for a future in which Native theatremakers’ presence on professional stages is standard, not novel.

The Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking National Summit at the University of Iowa
Video

The Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking National Summit at the University of Iowa

Thursday 13 October and Friday 14 October 2016
Iowa City, Iowa

The Rural Policy Research Institute presented the Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking National Summit livestreamed on the global, commons-based and peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 13 October and Friday 14 October 2016. See the livestream schedule below. In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use #howlround