Native Voices Presents 11th Short Play Festival: Home

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS

Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker (Kanaka Maoli) is a director, playwright, and associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her work centers on the development of an Indigenous Hawaiian theatre aesthetic and form, language revitalization, and the empowerment of cultural identity through stage performance. Baker is the artistic director of Ka Hālau Hanakeaka, a Hawaiian-medium theatre troupe based on O‘ahu. Originally from Kapa‘a, Kaua‘i, she now resides in Kahalu‘u, Ko‘olaupoko, O‘ahu with her ‘ohana. Lee Cataluna (Native Hawaiian) is a playwright whose recent work includes commissions from San Francisco Playhouse (Sons of Maui) , Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Visual Sovereignty Project) , Arena Stage (Indigenous Earth Voice) , and La Jolla Playhouse (What the Stars See) . Her short play Funeral Attire received the Von Marie Atchley Award from Native Voices in 2020, and her play Flowers of Hawaii was workshopped at Native Voices in 2019. Her TYA play Heart Strings received a Reimagine Grant and was workshopped at Atlantic Theater this fall. Jeff D’Hondt (Lenape, Six Nations of the Grand River) is a K. M. Hunter Award nominee. Of Belgian Canadian and Lenape ancestry, his stage plays include Mesingw (Vancouver Fringe, Aki Studio) and Everything I Couldn’t Tell You (Why Not Theatre/ RISER Project). He was the associate producer of MSM [men seeking men] (lemonTree Creations, World Pride). A graduate of York University with a Master of Social Work degree, D’Hondt’s research on using devised theatre to assist houseless Indigenous youth was awarded the Gerry Erickson Essay Prize for Best Practice Research Paper. Diane Glancy (Cherokee) is member #1255 of the First Families of the Cherokee Nation, an organization that recognizes families that formed the Cherokee Nation. Native Voices has produced four of her plays: Jump Kiss , Stone Heart , Salvage , and The Bird House . She published Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears . Her most recent books are A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story and Home Is the Road: Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit. Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. www.dianeglancy.com