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Please join us for a pre-performance reception & lecture in Bodwell Lounge on the 3rd floor of Collins Center for the Arts, presented by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center. Playwright William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. will conduct the lecture to help you get the most out of seeing the performance.
- 6-6:15 reception
- 6:15-6:45 lecture and Q&A
- 7 p.m. show
William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. is an Assiniboine playwright. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers鈥 Circle of the Americas. His play, 鈥Making IndiXns鈥, was one of five newly completed one-act plays and was published in the聽America鈥檚 Best One-Act Plays. Other publications of his work include聽Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories, a collection of his full-length plays,聽Where the Pavement Ends: New Native Drama, a collection of his one-act plays.聽Wood Bones, a full length play, was produced this November at the University of 海角社区, 海角社区. He is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Penumbra Theatre. Yellow Robe resides in 海角社区 where he is a Libra Professor at the English Department, University of 海角社区. Read more about Mr. William Yellow Robe聽here.