| Perth 2024 ISPA Congress– Muriel Miguel |
 Muriel MiguelSpiderwoman Theater 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. Miguel is a 2024 United States Artists Fellow and a 2018 Doris Duke Artist. She holds an honorary DFA from Miami University in Ohio and an honorary Doctor of Letters from Trent University in Canada. 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. Muriel was an instructor for and directed an annual production at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre (CIT)in Toronto and was Program Director for CIT's three week summer intensive from 2004-2016. She has instituted the Indigenous performance practice called storyweaving and is active in the training of Indigenous actors and dancers in this culturally based method. Muriel has presented Muriel Miguel: A Retrospective and facilitated storyweaving workshops and residencies in conservatories and universities in the US, Canada and Europe. She has been profiled in Women in Love: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers and their Families by Barbara Seyda and Diana Herrera and American Women Stage Directors of the 20th Century by Anne Fliotsos and Wendy Vierow. Plays Published: TRAIL OF THE OTTER in Staging Coyote’s Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English Vol. II & HOT 'N' SOFT in Two-Spirit Acts: Queer Indigenous Performances. Speaker |
