| ISPA 2025 New York Congress– Muriel Miguel |
 Muriel MiguelArtistic Director
Muriel Miguel (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 and educator and has worked and toured extensively in the US, Canada and across the globe for over fifty years. In 2024, Miguel was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a 2024 United States Artists Fellow, a 2018 Doris Duke Artist and a 2016 John S. Guggenheim Fellow. She holds an honorary DFA from Miami University in Ohio and an honorary Doctor of Letters from Trent University in Canada. She serves on the NYC Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission. Directorial credits include The Unnatural and Accidental Women - National Arts Centre in Ottawa; Fear of Oatmeal – American Indian Artists; Material Witness and most recently the premiere production and tour of Misdemeanor Dream. She has developed “storyweaving”, Spiderwoman Theater's signature Indigenous performance practice and is active in the training of Indigenous actors and dancers in this culturally based method. Muriel has presented Making the Connections: A Retrospective and facilitated storyweaving workshops and residencies in conservatories and universities in the US, Canada and Europe. Speaker |
