Native Performing Arts Network, a new national home for Indigenous stories, artists, and youth, is honored to share the plays by Indigenous writers that will receive readings as part of its National Day of Theater Readings for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR). Theaters and universities across the nation will present staged readings of the plays on May 5, 2026, with select readings and related activities occurring on surrounding dates, to help bring awareness to the crisis of violence facing Indigenous people.
A reading of Tourniquet: By Honokee Dunn, winner of Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program’s (YIPAP) Young Native Playwrights Award,
An installation by Way of the Sacred Mountain: The reading will be performed by three Cal State LA Department of Theatre actors (Juliette Del Muro, Vincent Maldonado Jr., and Artie Cabeza) and actor/singer Jehnean Washington in the Music Hall, and directed by Cal State LA faculty Carolyn Dunn.