In order to help prepare youth to submit for the 3rd Annual Yale Young Native Actor’s Award (The Misty Upham Award), The Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program is offering a special free Monologue Acting Workshop with acclaimed actor Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock nations) on Wednesday February 8th from 7-9 PM EST/4-6 PST online. This workshop will be held on zoom and is open to all Native Youth, not just Yale students. During this workshop actors 25 and under will have the opportunity to learn some tips on how to prepare their monologues from an incredibly accomplished professional. The workshop will include opportunities to work on your monologues and receive coaching from Monique in class as well.
Monique’s artistic practice mines stories embedded in the body in connection to land and place. She has created land-based, embodied dramaturgies and taught Indigenous Theatre in theory, process and practice throughout Canada, the US, Latin America and Europe.
Most recent: the role of Wanda in Yolanda Bonnell’s My Sister’s Rage at Tarragon Theatre, Aunt Shady in The Unnatural and Accidental Women, at the NAC and Izzie M.: The Alchemy of Enfreakment written by Monique with a diverse creative team. Monique has collaborated with Santee Smith as the dramaturg for Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s tryptic, Re-Quickening /Blood Tides/SKe:NEN and for Teneil Whiskeyjack’s Ayita for Edmonton’s SkirtsAfire Festival. She is a member of the newly formed Indigenous Dramaturgy Circle at Tarragon Theatre. Currently Monique is the inaugural Wurlitzer Visiting Professor at the University of Victoria’s
Theatre Department. Upcoming: in 2023 two books will be released: “Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance” written with Brenda Farnell, University of Michigan Press and “Staging Coyote’s Dream” co-edited with Lindsay Lachance, Playwrights Canada Press.
Please email madeleine.hutchins@yale.edu to register for the online workshop or if you have any questions.
The Misty Upham Award for Young Native Actors will be accepting submissions through Feb 28th, if you are interested in submitting for this year’s award - please email madeleine.hutchins@yale.edu for access to the folder of submission materials, which includes monologues from plays by William S. Yellowrobe Jr. Marisa Carr, Carolyn Dunn, Rhianna Yazzie, Tara Moses, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Vera Starbard, Vickie Ramirez, Drew Woodson, and Nick Martin. For more details about this contest please check out our announcement here: https://yipap.yale.edu/news/3rd-annual-misty-upham-award-young-native-ac…