Press/Links
Below are selected links to press material, interviews and other webpages associated with HoganHorse Studio:
“‘Peter Pan’ had a Tiger Lily problem. How the musical now does right by Indigenous people” (LA Times, 2024)
“Fellow Spotlight: Larissa FastHorse” (MacArthur Foundation, 2024)
“Mark Taper Forum to reopen with ‘American Idiot,’ Larissa FastHorse’s ‘Fake It Until You Make It’” (LA Times, 2024) – article announcing the world premiere of Larissa’s show Fake It Until You Make It, a co-production between Center Theatre Group in LA and Arena Stage in DC
“Off to Never Never Land: ‘Peter Pan’ flies again in a new tour after some much needed changes” (AP News, 2024)
“Superheroes on Native Land: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3” (American Theatre, 2023) – series of articles on the South Dakota tour of Wicoun, co-written by Larissa and Michael John Garcés
“Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse takes on the 'wild mess' of Thanksgiving” (NPR’s “Fresh Air”, 2023) on The Thanksgiving Play, writing comedy, and the urgency in diversifying Broadway
“Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse makes history with Broadway debut” (MSNBC, 2023) – interview with Larissa about the The Thanksgiving Play
“Larissa FastHorse’s ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ Set For Broadway 2023 With ‘Hadestown’ Director Rachel Chavkin” (Deadline, 2022)
“Survey of Most Produced Plays Shows Diversity” (New York Times, 2019) – article on Larissa making history as the first Native American playwright with a play included on the American Theater magazine’s Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2019-20 Season list.
“Native Americans, The KKK And Keeping The 'Blood Pure'“ (NPR Morning Edition, 2017) – article on Larissa’s play What Would Crazy Horse Do?
'“Urban Rez' Explores What It Means To Be Native American” (NPR All Things Considered, 2016)
Allies - Short film in My America Too series by Baltimore's Center Stage. Short scripts were commissioned and filmed in locations such as Ferguson, Cleveland and Baltimore.
Indigenous Direction - Founded by Ty Defoe and Larissa, ID is a consulting firm for companies and artists who want to create accurate work about, for and with Indigenous peoples.
Publishing: Find Larissa's work at Samuel French, Plays for Young Audiences, Dramatic Publishing, and anthologies The Face of America, Monologues for Actors of Color: Men, and What Would Crazy Horse Do? in Contemporary Plays by Women of Color.
Photo Credits: Conor Horgan - Black and white portraits Kirsten Levisen Lloyd - most studio sculpture pics Bianca Dorso - Welded Plastic on Metal