Gloria Miguel
Kuna, Rappahannock Gloria studied drama at Oberlin College and is a founding member of Spiderwoman Theater. She has worked extensively in film and television, most recently in the Spanish film Caotica Ana in Madrid, Spain. She toured the United States in Grandma, a one woman show, toured Canada as Pelaija Patchnose in the original Native Earth production of Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters and performed in Native Earth’s Son of Ayash in Toronto. She performed as Coyote/Ritalinc in Jessica, a Northern Lights Production in Edmonton, Canada and was nominated for a Sterling Award for best supporting actress. She was a drama consultant for the Minnesota Native American AIDS Task Force to develop a play on AIDS, taught drama at the Eastern District YMCA in Brooklyn, NY and was a visiting professor of Drama at Brandon University in Canada. She taught drama workshops at the Native American Writer’s and Artist Forum in Red Mesa, Grey Hills and Rough Rock, Navajo Nation Reservation. With Spiderwoman Theater, she has toured throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand. She performed in Beijing, China at the 4th World Woman’s Conference. She is the recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Miami University in Ohio and with other members of Spiderwoman Theater received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art. She and Lisa Mayo received a Rockefeller Grant and funding from the Jerome Foundation to create Nis Bundor: Daughters from the Stars and has also created a one woman show A Kuna Grows in Brooklyn. She is a lifetime member at the Lee Strasberg Institute. She has presented Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, her new one woman show, at The Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC; at Story-ing the Human Being: Two Generations of Native Women on Stage at the University of Toronto; with AMERINDA at NYTW Annex and most recently at Ohio Northern University’s 9th International Theatre Festival. www.spiderwomantheater.org