Playwright Larissa FastHorse
Speaks About The Thanksgiving Play
Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is an award-winning writer and choreographer who creates Indigenous-centered stories that are produced in mainstream theater.
With her satirical comedy The Thanksgiving Play, which opened in the spring of 2023, she became the first known Native American woman, and second known Native American, to have her play produced on Broadway. The Thanksgiving Play follows four white-presenting individuals as they attempt to write and perform a historically accurate play retelling the first Thanksgiving.
A 2020 MacArthur Fellow, FastHorse is the co-founder of Indigenous Direction, a consulting firm that assists “companies and artists who want to create accurate work about, for and with Indigenous Peoples.” Indigenous Direction recently produced the first land acknowledgment on national television for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
In this episode of “Attribution,” FastHorse speaks with host Bob McKinnon about her complex personal and artistic evolution, including her journey from life in South Dakota to the demanding world of Broadway.
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