Schools
MAPP - Native Voices at the Autry Young Playwrights Project, Outreach Program - Coeur D’ Alene Reservation, Northern Idaho and Western Washington State - Fall 2005 – Spring 2006
A five-week residency on the Coeur D’Alene Indian Reservation, developed over three years with the Autry National Center.
This comprehensive program began with a 2-day mentor orientation for the Masters playwriting and directing students at the University of Idaho, followed by a 2-week in-school daily 2-hour playwriting/ mentoring workshop at the Coeur D’Alene Tribal School in DeSmet, Idaho, for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. Each student completed an eight- to 10-minute one-act play.
Six professional Native actors from Los Angeles joined professional local performers for seven staged readings of the young writers’ plays. Venues included the Hartung Theater (U of I), Moscow, Idaho; the Tribal School, DeSmet, Idaho; The Middle School, Plummer, Idaho; the Rose Creek Long House, Worley, Idaho; North Idaho College (two readings), Coeur D’Alene, Idaho; and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) in Spokane, WA. Approximately 3,000 people were in attendance. (Press materials available upon request.)
The successful fall program was followed by a spring site visit and day-long follow-up character workshop for tribal school students and University of Idaho mentors on the U of I campus.
MAPP – Young Native Playwrights Project - Monologue and Character Workshop - Coeur d’Alene Tribal School, DeSmet, ID - Fall 2006
During October 2006, MAPP returned to the tribal school to run an independent week-long character and monologue workshop with three Native actors from Los Angeles for seventh and eighth grade students. Mentors included the three actors, two U of I graduate students, a community mentor, and two MAPP staff mentors. Working with tribal language specialists, elements of the Coeur d’Alene language were incorporated in the public readings of monologues and plays at the tribal school (DeSmet, ID) and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (Spokane, WA).