Danielle Soames
Mohawk
Danielle is Mohawk from Kahnawake, QC and grew up in Atlanta, GA. Currently a Graduate student at NYU Educational Theatre Program; Danielle received her Bachelor of Science degree in Theatre Arts from Northeastern University in Boston, MA before attending Circle In The Square Theatre School in NYC. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Mixed Phoenix Theatre Group www.mptg.org. Her main mission is to break stereotypes of mixed-ethnicities and mixed-cultures by exploring identity in new plays which address conflict within that culture or about that culture. She teaches at the National Museum of the American Indian as a part time Cultural Interpreter. In the summer of 2010 she was an Assistant Educator for the Summer Youth Program at the National Museum of the American Indian. She has acted in staged productions at the National Museum of the American Indian, The Public Theater, LaMaMa, The Barrow Group, The Workshop Theatre, The Red Room (Fringe Festival), John Houseman Theatre, Producers Club, Manhattan Theatre Source, CUNY, NYU, and directed at Looking Glass Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Source, Times Square Playwrights, American Indian Community House, and for Immigrants Theatre Project. She is published through Talking Stick quarterly newsletter-part of Amerinda and Eastern Door Newspaper in Kahnawake, QC, Canada. Danielle is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society of Education.
