By Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora)
Directed by Randy Reinholz (Chocktaw)
Synopsis:
Brewster’s back after almost a decade and things have changed. Brews is proud of his success working for a large corporation, and wants to share it with the people of his Rez in Upstate New York. After all, it’s been a bad year, and Brews believes partnering with his corporation on a new bottled water factory would be a great opportunity for the Rez to create its own industry and sustain itself. But to his old love Connie, it’s a betrayal of everything the Haudenosaunee stand for. Who will win?
Total Run Time (Approx): 2 Hours (including a 15-minute intermission)
Context Notes: Suggestions of sexuality, discussions of pregnancy, discussions of substance abuse (alcoholism), discussions of death and suicide, brief discussions of Native American Boarding Schools
Recommended Ages: 13+
Sign Interpreted: Thursday 5/8 – 7:30pm
Open Captioned: Saturday 4/19 – 2:00pm, Wednesday 5/7 – 2:00pm, Wednesday 5/7 – 7:30pm
Audio Described: Sunday 5/4 – 2:00pm
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Group Pricing Benefits:
Geva Insights is a series of post-performance conversations with thought leaders, experts, and members of the community who contextualize or provoke more in doting consideration or a play’s themes presented in Geva’s 24/25 season, it was conceived of as a unique opportunity to strengthen our connectivity to new and existing communities in our region.
The stages are dark on Monday evenings at Geva, so the art and action shift to the lobby and café where brilliant local visual artists, performers, musicians, and speakers broaden our consideration of the onstage productions. Geva Theatre invites the community to join us for a free series of art openings and to party for a couple of hours each month!
Geva Theatre, in partnership with Friends of Ganondagan and Native Voices, is thrilled to share the work of local Indigenous artists both in our lobby turned gallery and as part of the design for this production of Pure Native. We will be celebrating all their work at Mondays at Geva on Monday, April 28 from 6-8pm right in Geva’s lobby. It is a free event and all are welcome to attend!
Tsioianiio Galban (Mohawk)
Lauren Jimerson
Brennen Johns (Onöndowa’ga:’, Genyahdë:h)
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DEREK GARZA (Art) (he/him) is a Native American (Wichita/Comanche) /Latino DC-based actor. Recent theater credits include The Other Children of the Sun at The Kennedy Center, Midsummer Night’s Dream at ISF, Nancy at Mosaic Theater, Something Moving at Ford’s Theatre, People, Places & Things at Studio Theater, The Swindlers and Our Town at Baltimore Center Stage, Between Two Knees at PAC-NYC, and Mother Road at Arena Stage. Other theaters include OSF, Seattle Rep, McCarter Theater, Yale Rep, Native Earth, A.R.T., TimeLine Theatre, Victory Gardens, Chicago Dramatist, Video Cabaret and Steppenwolf to name a few. Derek can also be seen in TV/Films like ABC’s Betrayal; NBC’s Chicago Fire, Jimortal (Pilot), PowerBook II: Ghost Untold Valor, and Canal Street. derekgarza.com
KALANI QUEYPO (Brewster) Kalani is an award-winning screenwriter and is currently developing his episodic comedy, When You Miss Aloha, as well as his feature length drama, Stored and Safe, and a brand-new musical, The Mainlanders, all showcasing his birthplace and culture as the backdrop in his character driven projects. For his musical, Missing Peace, Kalani is the recipient of the 2019 Native Voices Playwrights Retreat, 2020 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, 2021 & 2022 Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, 2021 NAMT Festival of New Plays, and the 2022 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Triple R. Kalani can be seen in the Oscar-nominated, Terrence Malick film, The New World, Steven Spielberg’s Emmy winning Into the West and Slow West (Sundance GRAND JURY PRIZE). Television credits include three seasons on Jamestown, Fear the Walking Dead, Mad Men, Hawaii Five-0, Nurse Jackie, Saints & Strangers, and Trickster.
TANIS PARENTEAU (Connie) (she/her) is an actor/producer and member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. TV: Billions, FBI: Most Wanted, Gossip Girl, Designated Survivor, House of Cards, Tribal. Film: ReEntry, Sweet Summer Pow Wow, Rehab. NYC: The Public Theater, Signature Theater, 59E59 Theaters. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As a producer, her films and series have been broadcast on ARTÉ, APTN lumi, and soon to be PBS. She was funded by Vision Maker Media for their Short Film Fellowship and she is currently developing multiple features and series. Tanis is on the SAG-AFTRA National Native Americans Committee and is a casting associate at tbd casting co in NYC. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The New School for Drama. tanisparenteau.com.
DELANNA STUDI (Karen) (Cherokee Nation) (she/her) Theater credits: the First National Broadway Tour of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Off-Broadway’s Gloria: A Life, Informed Consent, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Indiana Repertory Theater, and Geva. Her first play, And So We Walked: Along the Trail of Tears, retells her journey retracing her family’s footsteps along the Trail of Tears with her father. Its Off-Broadway debut at Minetta Lane was recorded for Audible. Film/Television credits: the Peabody Award-winning Edge of America, Dreamkeeper, Goliath, Shameless, General Hospital, Reservation Dogs, and Disney’s The Roof. She is the Artistic Director of Native Voices. DeLanna is a 2022 United States Artists Fellow, an Advance Gender Equality in the Arts Legacy Playwright Grant Recipient, and a Playwright in Residence at Geva Theatre.
JAKE WAID (Gary) (he/him) is pleased to be making his Geva Theatre debut in Pure Native. Recent roles: Torvald in A Doll’s House Part 2 at Theater Alaska, John in Where the Summit Meets the Stars at Perseverance Theatre, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare and Company. Other theatres: Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Pillsbury House, Mixed Blood, History Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Kennedy Center, Native Voices at the Autry, The Playwright’s Realm. Film: Cortez, Feels Good. He trained at Cornish College and Freehold Theatre Lab/Studio.
