Native Voices Presents 11th Short Play Festival: Home

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Tom Allard (Loyal Shawnee) is a longtime member of the Native Voices Artists Ensemble. He taught stagecraft and video filmmaking for 20 years before becoming the resident storyteller for Pasadena Polytechnic School. September marked 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!

Samantha Bowling (Cherokee) is a standup, sketch, improv, and character comedian from Cincinnati, Ohio. She lives, works, plays with her dog, paints, writes music, drives a stick shift, and performs in Los Angeles. Her solo show This Was Never Supposed to Be a One-Woman Show: A One-Woman Show will premiere in Los Angeles in December. Theatre credits include Spirit of the Valley (Perseverance Theatre), The Lowell Offering (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Under a Big Sky (Native Voices at the Autry), and Informed Consent (Lantern Theater). TV/Film credits include Tomb Invaders (SyFy), Back to Awesome (Amazon), and Okee Dunn-Anderson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians) is a Two-Spirit person from San Pedro, California. They have played roles such as Willy Wonka in Charley and the Chocolate Factory , the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland , and Sandra King in Round Dance . They will be studying at Cal State L.A. for theatre, as well as to learn American Sign Language.

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Jason Grasl (Blackfeet) is an actor, playwright, director, and ensemble member at Native Voices at the Autry. Theatre credits include Fairly Traceable (Native Voices); Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Garry Marshall Theatre); Cherokee (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); The Blame of Love and Sliver of a Full Moon (touring); Urban Rez (assistant director); and Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding . Film/ TV credits include Rutherford Falls, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 9-1-1 , White Collar , Hot in Cleveland , Cassidy Red , and The Seminarian . Playwright credits include Lying with Badgers , Emergency Management , and The Blame of Love . Grasl’s newest play, a sci-fi drama called The Normal Force , was written under San Diego Rep’s “Hear U.S. Now” commission with an online staged reading premiere this weekend.