Projects

Playwrights Tara Moses and Vera Starbard
July 6, 2020
CALLING ALL NATIVE WRITERS! YIPAP is offering two playwriting workshops that will be taught by award-winning Native playwrights Vera Starbard (Tlingit) and Tara Moses (...
Kinsale Hueston, Allison Hicks, and Sarah D’Angelo perform in Tara Moses’ He’eo’o.
June 17, 2019
Earlier this month, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (“YIPAP”) hosted the Fourth Annual Young Native Playwriting Festival, featuring new plays by award winning...
The winners of the Third Annual Yale Young Native Storyteller Contest (from left to right): Charlize Arcoren (Sicangu Lakota), Teanna Hart (Sicangu Lakota), Zooey White (Ogalala Lakota), Vonica LaPlante (MHA Nation), Everett George (Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe), and YIPAP’s Associate Director Reed Adair Bobroff (Navajo Nation).
May 24, 2018
(Yale University, New Haven, CT) This year’s Third Annual Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program’s (“YIPAP”) Young Native Storyteller Festival was a resounding success full...
YIPAP will host the 3rd annual Young Native Storytellers Festival from May 3rd - 5th.
April 27, 2018
This May 3-5th, 2018, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) will host its 3rd annual Young Native Storyteller Festival. The Festival features the work of this...
Sovereignty Set Design, Arena Stage; photo credit Cameron Whitman
February 15, 2018
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...
January 9, 2018
DeLanna Studi, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, visited Yale in early December at the invitation of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). Studi is a prominent...
The Native American Cultural Center hosted a dinner and reception honoring Gloria Miguel and Muriel Miguel of Spiderwoman Theater
November 16, 2017
On November 7, 2017, the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) brought Gloria Miguel and Muriel Miguel of Spiderwoman Theater to Yale’s campus. Together, Gloria and...