SummerSTAGE 2009
Pieces of Us:
How the Lost Find Home
by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine)
For Performers 12 to 19 years old
AUDITIONS:
Saturday, June 6, 10am – 12pm
Rainier Valley Cultural Center
Delve into Native American culture
- Learn acting, dance & more with theatre professionals
- 6 weeks of rehearsal & 6 Public performances
- Rehearsals Mon – Thurs nights & Saturday mornings, June 9 to July 22
- Performances: July 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, Aug 1
CALL (206) 276-6471
http://seedseattle.org/seedarts/rvyt.html
William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. is an Assiniboine playwright, director, poet, actor, writer, and educator from the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, located in northeastern Montana. He has written more than forty-five plays. Yellow Robe is a recipient of the "First Nations Book Award for Drama," the first playwright to receive a Princess Grace Foundation Theater Fellowship, and the first Native American playwright to receive a Jerome Fellowship from the Minneapolis Playwrights' Center. His plays have appeared at the Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Group Theater, American Conservatory Theater, the Mark Taper Forum, and elsewhere. He is a member of the Penumbra Theater Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, Ensemble Studio Theater in New York, and the Board of Advisors for Red Eagle Soaring Theater Company (a Native youth theater company) of Seattle, Washington.
