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 (...
June 23, 2020
On June 9th, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven presented a panel on “Stories, Sovereignty, and Imagining Forward,” as part of their Ideas Series. The...
June 23, 2020
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...
April 9, 2020
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),...
March 11, 2020
After months of preparations, countless hours of rehearsal, and dozens of performances, Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Manahatta ended its successful run at the Yale Repertory Theatre...
January 28, 2020
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 (...
October 15, 2019
The 5th Annual Yale Young Native Storyteller’s Contest is sponsored by the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program to support the next generation of Native writers. We invite...