| New York 2024 ISPA Congress– Muriel Miguel |
 Muriel MiguelArtistic Director
Muriel Miguel - Director (Kuna/Rappahannock) is the founder & artistic director of Spiderwoman Theater, the longest running Native feminist theater in the Americas. Miguel is an award-winning activist-artist, director, choreographer, actor, writer and educator. She has worked and toured extensively in the US, Canada and across the globe for over fifty years. Miguel has developed “storyweaving”, Spiderwoman Theater's signature Indigenous performance methodology and actively trains Indigenous actors and dancers in this culturally based method. Her most recent development and directorial credits include The Unnatural and Accidental Women - National Arts Centre in Ottawa; Fear of Oatmeal – American Indian Artists; Material Witness - Spiderwoman Theater and the world premiere production of Misdemeanor Dream. Muriel is a 2018 Doris Duke artist and a 2016 John S Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. She most recently received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Trent University and in 2007, an honorary DFA from Miami University. She is a member of the National Theater Conference and the Southeastern Theatre Conference, where she received the 2019 Distinguished Career Award. Speaker |
