Native Voices Presents 27th Festival of New Plays

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS

June Thiele (Athabascan/Yup’ik) is an actor, writer, filmmaker, and storyteller. Recently they performed in a radio play with Theater for Young Audiences at the Kennedy Center, a radio play with A Red Orchid Theatre, Incomplete Conversations with Silent Theatre Company and wrote and performed an original story, When Animals used to Talk with 2nd Story. Film credits include atoms of ashes as co-writer, producer and story and Adhara , as writer and actor. They were selected for a scriptwriting fellowship in 2018 with PBS Kids and are currently writing for the new animated series Molly of Denali . Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) also Mvskoke, is a director, a multi-award-winning playwright, the producing artistic director of telatúlsa, co-artistic director of Red Eagle Soaring, and co-founder of Groundwater Arts. Moses holds a BA in theater from the University of Tulsa and will attend Brown University/Trinity Rep as an MFA directing candidate in the fall of 2021. Jaisey Bates (Huron heritage’d) writes, directs, and performs with their multicultural theatre company, the Peoplehood (the-peoplehood.com). Bates is a recipient of the Emerging American Playwright Prize from Marin Theatre Company, a member of the playwrights’ cohort for the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a Princess Grace Award / O’Neill National Playwrights Conference / Blue Ink Award finalist, and a Kilroys List honorable mention. Their education includes Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, the American University in Cairo, and Loyola Marymount University.