Native Voices Presents 11th Short Play Festival: Home

ABOUT THE DRAMATURGS

Carolyn M. Dunn, PhD (Cherokee, Mvskoke Creek, French Creole, and Tunica/Choctaw Biloxi descent) is a poet, playwright, director, and actor. She is assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Cal State L.A. and the artistic director of Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company.

Laura Shamas (Chickasaw) is thrilled to part of the 2021 Short Play Festival as a dramaturg. Her short play Four Women in Red was part of the 2020 Festival, and her short play Seeds won the Von Marie Atchley award at the 2017 Festival. Her Ph.D. is in mythological studies, and she has written 40 plays. A couple of her published nonfiction books are “We Three”: The Mythology of Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters and Pop Mythology: Collected Essays .

Harry Wong III is a graduate from UH Mānoa with an MFA in theatre direction. He has been the artistic director of Kumu Kahua Theatre (KKT) since 1997, and in 1990 he stage managed KKT’s international tour to Edinburgh, Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles International Festival of the Arts. He was an Allen Lee Hughes Fellow at Washington D.C.’s Arena Stage. In addition to directing at KKT, Wong has directed for the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, the Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival, and the Actors Group.