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Artist Discussion with Madeline Sayet
July 10, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm CDT
Artist Discussion and Q&A with Mohegan Director, Playwright, and Actor, Madeline Sayet
Join us on Sunday, July 10 at 6:00 p.m. as we welcome award-winning Mohegan director, writer, actor, and educator Madeline Sayet to the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. We invite you to this in-person conversation and Q&A to celebrate Sayet’s work and the production of her solo play, Where We Belong, now showing at the Goodman Theatre as part of a national tour presented by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Where We Belong, at the Goodman Theatre through July 24, 2022, is a personal story of an Indigenous theatre-maker’s journey across geographic borders, personal history, and cultural legacies; in search of a place to belong. Sayet’s autobiographical account in Where We Belong shares her experience pursuing a Ph.D. in Shakespeare in England. There she finds a country that refuses to acknowledge its role in colonialism while echoing a journey to England braved by Native ancestors in the 1700s following treatise betrayals, forcing us to consider what it means to belong in an increasingly globalized world.
This intimate conversation with Sayet is free for Mitchell Museum Members and $10 for non-members. Admission for Native citizens is always free. Tickets can be purchased in advance or onsite.
MADELINE SAYET
Madeline Sayet, Playwright, Performer (she/her) is a Mohegan theater maker who believes the stories we pass down inform our collective possible futures. She serves as an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) and is the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). She has been honored as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment, TED Fellow, MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, National Directing Fellow, Drama League Director-In-Residence, NCAIED Native American 40 Under 40 and a recipient of The White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama. As a writer her plays include Where We Belong; Up and Down the River; Antigone Or And Still She Must Rise Up; Daughters of Leda; The Neverland and The Fish (In Development). Recent directing work includes Tlingit Christmas Carol (Perseverance Theatre); Midsummer Night’s Dream (South Dakota Shakespeare); Henry IV (Connecticut Repertory Theatre); Whale Song (Perseverance Theatre); As You Like It (Delaware Shakespeare); The Winter’s Tale (Amerinda/HERE Arts); Poppea (Krannert Center, Illinois); The Magic Flute (Glimmerglass); Macbeth (NYC Parks) and Miss Lead (59e59).
For more information about this program, please contact: info@gichigamiin-museum.org | (847) 475-1030 | www.mitchellmuseum.org/events/