Our Next Stage: The Alaska Native Playwrights Project
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The Alaska Native Playwrights Project highlights contemporary Alaska Native playwrights and actors. Guest panelists at this event are Ed Bourgeois, a producer and director for the Native Theater at the Alaska Native Heritage Center; Jack Dalton, a professional storyteller, actor, writer, teacher, director, and Rasmuson Foundation Fellow who has created five theatrical works of epic storytelling including "Time Immemorial"; artist Robin Lovelace, from Sitka, who has has spent much of the past apprenticing and collaborating with many of the finest Northwest Coast and Alaska Native artists; Lisa Marie Heitman Bruce Alutiiq, from Kodiak Island, who is an accomplished playwright, online journalist and a web developer; and Lucas Rowle, from Homer of Inupiaq and Scottish heritage, who received a prestigious Rasmuson Award. This event is sponsored with the Alaska Center for the Book in celebration of Alaska Native American Indian Heritage Month.
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