Roundtable

NAWPA Authors' Roundtable

March 19, 1999

The following is a transcription of an informal discussion that took place in King Library at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The discussants were gathering to attend a conference the next day entitled "Celebration of Native Women Playwrights." The conference included paper presentations, performances by Shirley Cheechoo and Spiderwoman Theater, and a staged reading of Vera Manuel's The Strength of Indian Women . The editors of the NAWPA anthology brought together the authors in attendance at the conference to discuss various aspects of their work, and issues surrounding Native women in theatre, to include in the anthology.

Discussion participants (in speaking order): Rebecca Howard (RH); JudyLee Oliva (JLO); Diane Glancy (DG); Monique Mojica (MM); Shirley Huston-Findley (SHF); Marcie Rendon (MR); Paul Jackson (PJ); LeAnne Howe (LAH); Victoria Kneubuhl (VK)

(Note on the transcription: since the quality of the audio tape was not always clear, there are bracketed ellipses [ . . . ] to indicate portions of the conversation that were not decipherable due to volume of the speaker, multiple voices, excessive background noise, etc. Every attempt has been made to include as much dialogue as possible.)

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