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.