Native Voices Presents: The New Adventures of Super Indian

Tom Allard (Cherokee) is a longtime member of the Native Voices

Artists Ensemble, having voiced the

archvillain Wampum Baggs in the original 2007 recordings. He is a retired actor, and for the past 20 years taught stagecraft and video filmmaking before becoming the resident storyteller for Pasadena Polytechnic School. September marks the beginning of his 50th year of singing for his supper, in one form or another. Deeply grateful for this adventure. What a band of players!

Ernest Briggs (White Earth Nation) is a proud Native American actor who has worked in Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Florida for more than 10 years. Briggs received his MFA from the University of Florida. He has performed at such venues as the Guthrie Theater, Park Square Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, South Coast Repertory, and Tilted Windmills Theatricals. Briggs has had supporting roles in independent feature films and series such as Atarax , A Method , Area of Conflict , and Sold Out . He is the artistic director of Turtle Theater Collective.

Candice Byrd (Cherokee Nation/Quapaw

Nation/Osage Nation) (MFA) makes her Native Voices debut as Phoebe Francis/ Ka'waika Woman and others. Theatre highlights include Lily in A Tlingit Christmas Carol , Perseverance Theatre; Sarah Ridge Polson in Sovereignty , Heller Theatre Company; Terri Henry in Sliver of a Full Moon throughout Indian Country; Bright Eyes/Prairie Rose/Betsy in Return to Niobrara , Kennedy Center’s New Visions New Voices; 2017 TYA/ASSITEJ’s Next Generation Artist-in-Residence. Wado/ Gungay/Da-tlee to Creator and grateful to work with the multitalented Arigon Starr on this great script, cast, and production staff.

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