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Theater Staff
Native Voices at the Autry
Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) / Producing Artistic Director and co-creator of Native Voices at the Autry
Randy has directed plays across the US and Canada including The Rez Sisters, The Waiting Room, Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Proof, Speed the Plow, The Glass Menagerie, Desire Under The Elms and numerous productions of Shakespeare plays. For Native Voices at the Autry, he's directed and produced Urban Tattoo and Equity productions of Jump Kiss, Stone Heart, The Red Road, The Buz'Gem Blues, The Berlin Blues, and Please Do Not Touch the Indians; executive produced Kino & Teresa, SUPER INDIAN, Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders, and Salvage. He received a BA from William Jewell College and an MFA from Cornell University. This March, he will be honored with the Citation of Achievement from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. The citation honors alumni who have achieved distinction in their chosen spheres of endeavor and who have exhibited values of a liberal arts education and of WJC; it is the highest honor bestowed upon WJC alumni. He is on the Board of Directors for TYA/USA, the Advisory Committee for the Native Theater Festival at the Public Theatre, and a member of The National Theatre Conference. He is a tenured professor at San Diego State University in the School of Theater, Television, and Film and on faculty for American Indian Studies. In 2007, after ten years as Head of Acting he was named the Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University.
Jean Bruce Scott / Producing Artistic Director and co-creator of Native Voices at the Autry
Jean has spent fifteen years developing new plays, including more than fifty by Native American playwrights. At Native Voices, she has produced eleven New Play Festivals; five Playwrights Retreats; over eighty play readings; and twelve new plays, including Equity productions of The Baby Blues, Jump Kiss, Stone Heart, The Red Road, The Buz'Gem Blues, The Berlin Blues, Please Do Not Touch the Indians, Kino & Teresa, SUPER INDIAN, Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders, Salvage and Métis playwright Marie Clements' Now Look What You Made Me Do and Urban Tattoo. She has been instrumental in creating the Native Radio Theater Project (NRT), a collaboration between Native Voices at the Autry and Native American Public Telecommunications producing new radio plays including The Best Place to Grow Pumpkins, Melba's Medicine, Why Opossum's Tail is Bare, The Peach Seed, and the pilot and ten episodes of SUPER INDIAN. Next up for NRT is The Red Road starring Arigon Starr and directed by the legendary Dirk Maggs.
David Burton / Managing Director
David been with the Autry since 1998. He is currently the Director of Government Affairs and Special Projects, focusing on securing funds from various government sources through competitive grants and legislative appropriations and promoting the Autry National Center with elected officials and the community. In addition, he serves as contributing editor to Convergence magazine and is responsible for a variety of institutional communications. He helped launch Native Voices at the Autry and has been a member of its executive committee since its inception. He is also the board chair for City Garage, a small theater company in Santa Monica specializing in contemporary European plays. A writer, his short fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared in various publications.
Carlenne Lacosta / Literary Manager
Carlenne served as the Project Coordinator and Teaching Artist for Young Native Voices: Theatre Education Project at Sycuan in 2006 and returned in 2007 as a Teaching Artist. She has participated in USC’s MFA Play Projects “Under Construction” (2007) and “Blueprints” (2008). Also in 2008, she helped coordinate the Annual Conference for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA); was the Session Co-Chair for the panel “Young Native Voices: Theatre Education Project at Sycuan” at the AATE Conference; and served as a panelist for the panel "Strangers in the Night" at the ATHE Conference. Dramaturgy credits include: the World Premieres of The House of Chaos and Lord Derby’s Giant Eland (both of which she also co-produced); Electricidad, The Cherry Orchard, Romeo and Juliet, The Laramie Project (2003 Patté Award), Skin, Hamlet, Angels in America, and Nickel and Dimed. She is a member of the LMDA and is a MA candidate in Theatre Arts at SDSU.
Native Voices at the Autry Advisory Council Members
Tonantzín Carmelo (Gabrielino Tongva, Mexica) is an award-winning actress and a Screen Actors Guild nominee for her lead role in Steven Spielberg’s miniseries Into the West. Numerous theater, television, and film credits including Imprint, a supernatural thriller produced by Chris Eyre and Linn Productions.
Duane Champagne (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) professor of sociology at UCLA and from 1991 to 2002 director of the university’s American Indian Studies Center. Dr. Champagne has authored or edited over 100 publications and was editor of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal from 1986 to 2003.
José Cruz González is a playwright, director, and professor of theater at CSU Los Angeles. He has written for PAZ, the Emmy Award nominated television series produced by Discovery Kids for The Learning Channel and was a recipient of a 2004 TCG/Pew National Theatre Residency grant. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, TYA/USA, and an Associate Artist with Cornerstone Theater Company and Childsplay.
Scott Kratz is currently the vice president for education at the National Building Museum, leading the Public Programs and Youth Education departments. He served as director of programs at the Autry National Center from 1999 to 2005, overseeing the development of Native Voices at the Autry and serving as producer or associate producer for its Equity productions.
Oliver Mayer is an internationally-produced playwright, and assistant professor of dramatic writing at USC School of Theatre. He is the author of numerous plays, including Joe Louis Blues, produced at the Tiffany Theaters and LATC in Los Angeles, and Blade to the Heat, which has been performed in acclaimed productions around the world.
Bill Partlan is associate professor, directing, at Arizona State University and the artistic director of Triple Espresso LLC in Minneapolis. He has directed for National Public Radio’s Earplay series and is known for his work with new plays and playwrights like Alan Ball, Lee Blessing, and John Patrick Shanley.
Kalani Queypo: (Blackfeet, Hawaiian) is an actor, writer, director, and producer. Acting includes roles in the Oscar-nominated film, The New World, and the Emmy Award-winning Into The West. He has written and directed his first short film, Ancestor Eyes, winning the following Awards: RIIFF, AOF, 2nd Place at TRMF, and the IF USA, Indie Fest USA.
Paula Starr is the executive director of the Southern California Indian Center. An enrolled member in the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, she has experience as a professional educator with a background in theater.
Marjorie Tanin (Tewa, Hopi, and Kiowa) is an actor, casting/technical advisor, and a consultant on television programs and feature films dealing with indigenous subjects. She is former co-chair of the Native American Subcommittee of the Screen Actors Guild.
