Jean Bruce Scott, Co-Founder and Producing Executive Director of Native Voices at the Autry
Photo courtesy of Native Voices at the Autry.
This week marks an exciting annual event for Native Voices at the Autry.
Their fifteenth annual Playwrights’ Retreat culminates, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, May 29-31, in their Festival of New Plays. Each evening at 7:30, the troupe presents a public reading of one of three new plays by Native playwrights. Admission’s free, but reservations are suggested.
After the final reading in Los Angeles on Friday, Native Voices will also be presenting public readings of all three plays at the La Jolla Playhouse, Saturday and Sunday, June 1 and 2.
Native Voices Co-Founder and Producing Executive Director Jean Bruce Scott talked about the experience of producing the Playwrights’ Retreat and Festival of New Plays, and offered a preview of the three new scripts her troupe will be reading.
Native Voices at the Autry will give a free reading of Darrell Dennis’s Where Have All the Warriors Gone? on Friday night, May 31, at 7:30 at the Autry Museum’s Wells Fargo Theatre. Their San Diego readings begin with a 2:00 p.m. matinee of Lori Favela’s The Healer’s Remains on Saturday, June 1, at La Jolla Playhouse’s “Seuss 2” Space.
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