Here are a few works for the stage by our favorite author. Excerpts of these plays can be found at the Playwrights’ Center. Click other tabs on this site for plays for youth and radio…

Asdzani Shash, The Woman Who Turned into a Bear
A full-length play
Based on a Navajo legend about a woman who turns into a bear, this play is the story of a young woman surrounded by elders that give her no guidance when an abusive ex-lover resurfaces in her life as she has to decide if she will remain human or become an animal.

This play was read at the First Annual Two Worlds Festival of Native American Theatre in 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and was a 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist.

Las Madres
A one-act play
An unexpected look at the story of Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo of Argentina through the eyes of their grandchildren and links the disappearance of children throughout the hemisphere from Argentina to Canada through government programs that removed indigenous children from their families.

This play was commissioned and first produced by Teatro del Pueblo at their 2009 Political Theatre Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Long Flight
A one-act play
A fantastical tale of the redemption of a Navajo man and his world forgotten by America. An allegory of the Navajo Long Walk to Fort Sumner.

This play was translated into Spanish and presented at the 30th World Congress of the International Theatre Institute – UNESCO in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico; and was a 2002 finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award.