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Larissa FastHorse is a Native American (Sicangu Lakota) playwright and choreographer based in Santa Monica, California. In 2023, she became the first known female Native American playwright produced on Broadway with The Thanksgiving Play at Second Stage ’s Hayes Theater .
The Thanksgiving Play is a satirical comedy written by Larissa FastHorse.The play centers around a group of four well-meaning but culturally insensitive white theater artists who attempt to create a politically correct elementary school play about the first Thanksgiving while struggling with their own biases and the lack of Native representation.
For playwright Larissa FastHorse, staging her newest play, Fake It Until You Make It, has not been without its challenges. The Sicangu Lakota writer, who is mounting the production in Los Angeles ...
Larissa FastHorse applauds the actors with glee. It's a scene the playwright has waited some time to rehearse: This world-premiere run of the Center Theatre Group commission was supposed to play ...
Julie Bowen will star in the Center Theatre Group’s world premiere of playwright Larissa FastHorse’s “Fake It Until You Make It.” The production, directed by Michael John Garcés and ...
Ty Defoe is an Ojibwe and Oneida performance artist, activist, and writer living in New York.. Defoe grew up in Wisconsin in the Ojibwe and Oneida communities of his parents. Defoe is two-spirit, [1] a term used in many Native American nations to indicate gender fluidity, non-traditional gender roles, or queerness.
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
'Fake It Until You Make It,' a satiric farce by Larissa FastHorse ('The Thanksgiving Play'), has its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, in a production directed by Michael John Garcés.