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Feast For the DEad

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Full Length Drama, One Intermission 
4W, 2M, 1NB/2S

After the fall of the Indian Child Welfare Act in the days leading up to the zombie apocalypse, Kay was illegally adopted out of her Tribe by a wealthy family who then abandoned her when they escaped the carnage by sea. Seven years later, Kay is a thriving citizen of a Confederacy of Tribes who took over governance of Turtle Island after the settler government fell. Just as suddenly as they appeared, the zombies fall apart, and the one percent return from the sea, ready to re-colonize. The only solution? Revive the centuries-old, Huron-Wendat tradition of holding a Feast for the Dead.

"What if...we tried something new?
Well, not new, old. Ancient, actually."


- Daniel Thunderhawk
from Feast for the Dead

DEVELOPMENT

  • Native Voices Conference w/ Staged Reading at La Jolla Playhouse. Dir. Madeline Sayet, Aug. 2024

  • Staged Reading at the American Indian Community House (AICH)-NYC, Dir. Tara Moses, July 2023

OF NOTE

  • Semi-Finalist for 2024 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference

  • Semi-Finalist for the 2024 Terrance McNally New Works Incubator at Rattlestick Theatre

  • Semi-Finalist for the 2024 National Playwrights Conference at Eugene O’Neill Theater Center

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