THEATER

 2000 The Shaman of Ok (pronounced Auk) written and directed by Howe. To be produced in the Fall of 1997, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A parody of the Wizard of Oz. To be performed by the WagonBurner Theatre Troop.
  1995 Indian Radio Days, co-authored by Howe and Roxy Gordon. Directed by Howe. Performed by the WagonBurner Theatre Troop with Howe at the National Museum of the American Indian, NYC, NY, in August 1995.
 

Jodi Byrd (Chickasaw) left and Debbie Hicks (Creek) (center), and Ken McCullough (far right), members of WagonBurner Theater Troop, in the 1995 performance of Indian Radio Days at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.





Brenda Lynch (Cherokee) (far left), Jodi Byrd (Chickasaw), Debbie Hicks (Creek) (at microphone), and Ken McCullough (far right), onstage at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Ms. Hicks, played in this scene, princess Wanna Buck.

 

Members of Wagon Burner Theater Troop pose outside the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC, 1995.

 

Brenda Lynch, Cherokee, (left) and Justin Data, Mohawk, (right) at the opening performance of Indian Radio Days, 1995 at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC.

Justin Data, Mohawk (left), Claire Cardwell, Cherokee (center), Ken McCullough (middle), and LeAnne Howe, Choctaw (right), Jarryd Lowder (far right), performing Indian Radio Days, 1995 at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC.

Steve Thunder McGuire, Cherokee, (left) Justin Data, Mohawk (center), Ken McCullough, right, LeAnne Howe, Choctaw right, Jarryd Lowder (far right) performing Indian Radio Days, 1995 at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC.

Steve Thunder McGuire, Cherokee, performing as "Kevin Costner" in Indian Radio Days, 1995 at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC.

Steve Thunder McGuire, Cherokee, performing as "The Lone Ranger" in Indian Radio Days, 1995 at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC.

Claire Cardwell, Cherokee, performing as Lowake Harris, Indian attorney-at-law in Indian Radio Days, 1995 at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC.

 

LeAnne Howe as the Female Announcer in Indian Radio Days, 1995 at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC.

 
 1995 Indian Radio Days, produced in February 1995, as part of a new play series at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California. Theater invited Howe to Los Angeles as consultant on the production.
  1993 Indian Radio Days, directed, rewritten by Howe for radio. Staged at CSPS Theater in Cedar Rapids, IA. Also broadcast on American Public Radio stations throughout the Midwest, and uplinked via satellite to Alaska Public Radio stations, on Columbus Day, 1993.
  1987 Big PowWow, co-authored by Howe and Roxy Gordon. Staged and produced by Sojourner Truth Theater in Fort Worth, Texas. Six weeks run. Sojourner Truth Theater is an African-American theater company in Texas. This was the first collaboration between American Indians and African-Americans of this kind in Texas.

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