Reshaping the World: A Mohegan Reaction to Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong

Finding Native representation in art and media when I was growing up was difficult. Finding anything good or specific? Nearly impossible. Imagine my joy at a piece of theater written by a Mohegan about Mohegan that uses Mohegan language, teachings, history, and cultural motifs—by another Maddy, no less!

6th Annual YIPAP Festival and The Inagural Misty Upham Award for Young Native Actors

The 6th Annual Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) New Play Festival will be livestreamed online April 30-May 2nd, via YIPAP’s Facebook page.

New Native Actor’s Award and Free Acting Workshop with Delanna Studi

In partnership with its annual Young Native Playwright’s Contest, this year the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program is launching the inaugural Young Native Actor’s Contest.

Free Upcoming Workshops in Playwriting and Costume Design

In early December the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program will be offering two exciting free workshops for Native artists! Both programs will be hosted online on zoom.

ONLINE SUMMER PLAYWRITING WORKSHOPS

YIPAP is offering two playwriting workshops that will be taught by award-winning Native playwrights Vera Starbard (Tlingit) and Tara Moses (Seminole). Each will be free and open to the public and are scheduled for Wednesdays July 22nd and August 5th.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MONOLOGUE WRITING COMPETITION

The Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program is hosting a Monologue Writing Competition for Native Youth, Ages 25 and Under. The writers of the two top monologues will each receive $100 prize and the option to either perform their own work as part of an online event or have a professional Native actor perform their work, subject to their preference.

5th Annual YIPAP Festival Celebrates Emerging Voices in Native Theater

In early March, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) hosted the 5th Annual Young Native Playwrights Festival, featuring new plays by Maulian Dana (Penobscot), Nick Martin (Sappony), and Isabella Madrigal (Cahuilla).

Manahatta Concludes Historic Run at Yale Repertory Theatre

Manahatta’s three-week run brought unprecedented attention to the Native American performing arts community on campus.

YIPAP ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF ITS FIFTH ANNUAL YOUNG NATIVE PLAYWRITING CONTEST

The Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program is thrilled to announce this year’s winners of the Young Native Storytellers Contest. This year’s winners are Isabella Madrigal (Cahuilla Band of Indians) for her play "Menil and her Heart", and Nick Martin (Sappony) for his play "Sappony, Always."

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS—YIPAP’s 5th Annual Young Native Storyteller’s Contest

We invite indigenous writers to submit written versions of their plays for consideration for the 5th Annual Yale Young Native Storyteller’s Contest.

YIPAP Welcomes Madeline Sayet As Executive Director

Starting in Fall 2019, Madeline Sayet (Mohegan) will be the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP).

YIPAP Announces Winner of its Fourth Annual Young Native Playwriting Contest

The Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (“YIPAP”) is thrilled to announce this year’s winner of the Young Native Playwriting Festival

Nationally Acclaimed Poet and Playwright Joy Harjo to visit Yale and preview her newly published play, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light

Poet and Playwright Joy Harjo (Muscogee (Creek) Nation)

4th Annual Yale Young Native Storytellers Contest

YIPAP is accepting submissions of full length plays written by Indigenous/ American Indian authors who are 24 years of age or younger. Winners will receive an all expense paid trip to Yale University in May 2019 to workshop their script with professional actors, a professional director, and a professional dramaturg.

YIPAP Hosts Third Annual Young Native Storyteller Festival

This year’s Third Annual Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program’s (“YIPAP”) Young Native Storyteller Festival was a resounding success full of laughter, tears, applause, and an appreciation for the incredible wealth of talent our youth in Indian country possess.

YIPAP Hosts 3rd Annual Young Native Storytellers Festival, May 3rd - 5th

This May 3-5, 2018, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) will host its 3rd Annual Young Native Storyteller Festival.

YIPAP Members Travel to See Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Newest Play, Sovereignty

On January 27, nearly a dozen members of the Native American Cultural Center community traveled with leaders of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program to Washington, D.C., for a showing of Sovereignty at Arena Stage.

YIPAP Brings Famed Spiderwoman Theater to Yale

For decades Spiderwoman Theater has worked to create provocative and compelling performances that tell Native stories from a Native perspective at a time when no theaters were producing Native artists.

YIPAP Presents Sliver of a Full Moon at UCSD in San Diego

A nearly full audience of students, history professors, tribal leaders, survivors, and other members of tribal communities listened to stories from survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault from across Indian country.

YIPAP Hosts DeLanna Studi for “Evening of Indigenous Performance”

Studi is a prominent Native actress who serves as the current chair of the SAG-AFTRA Native Americans Committee. She has performed in the national Broadway tour of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County.