Vickie Ramirez

Vickie Ramirez


Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is a founding member of Chukalokoli Theater. Her work has been developed and/or produced at Native Voices at the Autry, Alter Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Black Swan,)The Public Theater, The Roundabout Theatre Company, Labyrinth Theater Company. Honors: Resident-New Dramatists through 2027, Winner-2020 Smith Prize for Political Theater (NNPN), The Kilroys-Honorary...

Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is a founding member of Chukalokoli Theater. Her work has been developed and/or produced at Native Voices at the Autry, Alter Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Black Swan,)The Public Theater, The Roundabout Theatre Company, Labyrinth Theater Company. Honors: Resident-New Dramatists through 2027, Winner-2020 Smith Prize for Political Theater (NNPN), The Kilroys-Honorary Mention 2019 for Pure Native and 2014 for Standoff At Hwy#37, Semi-finalist-Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2019, Semi-finalist Eugene O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference 2018, Alumna-Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group (2009). Productions: Pure Native - Alter Theater (Summer 2022) and Native Voices at the Autry, Standoff at Hwy#37 – NV Autry and the University of South Dakota, Glenburn 12 WP - Summer Shorts at 59E59, Smoke - Mixed Phoenix Theatre Group at Pershing Square Signature Center. Published: Monologues for Actors of Color: Women, Monologues for Actors of Color: Men and Contemporary Plays by Women of Color Edition 2: (Routledge Press), Glenburn 12 WP – Short Plays: Vol 1 (TRW press). Member: Dramatists Guild, PEN America Consultant: Outer Range for Amazon TV


Plays

  • Pure Native by Vickie Ramirez
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Native American, water + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, political, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Native American, water, Seventh Generation, romance, NDN, contemporary, bottle, The River
    Brewster’s back after almost a decade and things have changed. He's recovered from his addictions and has become very successful working for a large Corporate Food Company in their bottled water division. Brews is proud of his success and wants to share it with the people of his Rez. Afterall, it's been a bad year. Several jobs have disappeared from the area and there has been a rash of teen suicides...
    Brewster’s back after almost a decade and things have changed. He's recovered from his addictions and has become very successful working for a large Corporate Food Company in their bottled water division. Brews is proud of his success and wants to share it with the people of his Rez. Afterall, it's been a bad year. Several jobs have disappeared from the area and there has been a rash of teen suicides. Brews believes a bottled water factory will solve these problems. If the Council allows his Company to build on tribal land and market "Pure Native, waters from the heart of NDN Country", they will offer infrastructure support, small business loans, scholarships and profit-sharing. To Brews this is a great opportunity for the Rez to create their own industry and sustain itself. To his old love Connie, it's a betrayal of everything the Haudenosaunee stand for. Connie believes Brewster is self-colonizing, and that the bottled water factory will destroy the culture, the environment and betray the Seventh Generation. As Brewster works hard to win over the Council and the rest of the Tribal Members, Connie fights to protect tradition and culture. Who will win?
  • Leona by the Bayou by Vickie Ramirez
    Recommendations: 1
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    2
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, holiday, musical, parody/spoof, young audiences
    A travel writer who's afraid to leave her neighborhood and a "psychic" shrimp boat captain meet by the River one day. A song ensues - written for the 52nd Street Project and Venecia Escamilla (age 11)
  • Glenburn 12 WP by Vickie Ramirez
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Native American, Indian + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller, political
    Keyword: Native American, Indian, African American, Die-in, protest, Whiskey, bar, Grand Central
    "A Native American woman and a Black man walk into a bar taking refuge from the “die-in” protests at Grand Central over police brutality. With the pub deserted and bartender strangely absent, these two strangers have their run of the place. But as the liquor starts to flow, so do some inconvenient truths. “
  • Standoff At Hwy#37 by Vickie Ramirez
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Native American, Native American rights + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, melodrama, political
    Keyword: Native American, Native American rights, Land Claims, haudenosaunee, Tuscarora, National Guard, American Indian
    When a Native-American land-claim protest in upstate New York gets out of hand, Private
    Thomas Lee Doxdater, a Tuscarora member of the National Guard, turns his gun on his mentor
    and commanding officer. Now a fugitive from the government and a liability to his own people,
    Doxdater must decide whether to make a run to the border or face his actions and take a stand
  • Smoke by Vickie Ramirez
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: American Indian, Native American + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: American Indian, Native American, magical realism, fire, haudenosaunee, Tuscarora
    Smoke is the story of Connie Farmer, a Christian Tuscarora woman and her struggle to connect with the traditional people of her reservation. Connie and her brother are considered outsiders by her people, because her mother converted to Christianity. Traditionally, Clan and tribal membership are identified through the mother, so the entire family (except for her father) are considered outsiders. Connie tries...
    Smoke is the story of Connie Farmer, a Christian Tuscarora woman and her struggle to connect with the traditional people of her reservation. Connie and her brother are considered outsiders by her people, because her mother converted to Christianity. Traditionally, Clan and tribal membership are identified through the mother, so the entire family (except for her father) are considered outsiders. Connie tries everything (good and bad) to force the people of the Rez to accept her, including seducing one of their leading sons. It doesn’t work. When the play opens she is almost resigned to her fate until her brother returns from his posting in Afghanistan, and announces his engagement - to the sister of the man that Connie seduced. Then, when the most sacred place on the Rez, the Longhouse itself, burns down after a suspicious fire - all eyes turn to Connie.