POST-READING DISCUSSIONS
Immediately after the readings, enjoy a conversation with the artists and facilitator Randy Reinholz, founder and Producing Artistic Director Emeritus of Native Voices at the Autry Museum of the American West. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Reinholz is a producer, director, actor and playwright, with over 100 productions in the United States, Australia, England and Canada. Reinholz has received ATHE’s Ellen Stewart Career Achievement in Professional Theatre Award, been recognized by Playwrights’ Arena, Los Angeles Drama Critics, MAP Grant, McKnight Fellowship, and received multiyear support from the NEA, Ford Foundation, Shubert Foundation, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, Disney, Sony, and Los Angeles County Arts Commission. He is a professor at San Diego State University, where he served as Head of Acting; Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film; and Director of Community Engagement and Innovation.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota) is an award-winning writer. Her produced plays include The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons); What Would Crazy Horse Do? (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Urban Rez / Native Nation / Lakota Project Trilogy in collaboration with Michel John Garcés (Cornerstone Theater Company, ASU Gammage); Landless and Cow Pie Bingo (AlterTheater); Average Family (Children’s Theater 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 Theater). Her awards include the PEN/Laura Pels 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, MAP Fund, Ford, Mellon and NEA Grants. She is the vice chair of the board of directors of Theater Communications Group and is represented by Jonathan Mills at Paradigm Talent Agency. In October 2020, Ms. FastHorse received the prestigious “Genius Grant” from the Macarthur Foundation. She lives in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, sculptor Edd Hogan. hoganhorsestudio.com #thethanksgivingplay
