Vickie Ramirez
(Courtesy of Vickie Ramirez.)
What if you’d taken an oath–and then discovered that honoring your word meant devastating the people closest to you?
That’s the dilemma in which Vickie Ramirez places her protagonist, in her new play, Stand-Off At Highway #37, which has its world premiere at Native Voices at the Autry this Friday, February 28th.
Vickie, who is an award-winning Tuscarora playwright, has created both movie and theatre scripts for production. Her plays have been performed in venues including the Santa Fe Theater Festival and New York’s Roundabout Theatre’s Different Voices Program. A winner of the 2010 NYSCA Individual Artist Award, Vickie developed Stand-Off At Highway #37 from a one-act play in 2011 to the current production in rehearsals at Native Voices.
Vickie talked about her background, her experiences as a playwright and how she came to create her latest play, Stand-Off At Highway #37.
Stand-Off At Highway #37 has its world premiere this Friday evening, February 28th, at 8 pm at Native Voices at the Autry, 4700 Western Heritage Way in Los Angeles. Previews take place this Wednesday and Thursday evening, February 26th and 27th, at 8 pm. Native Voices at the Autry is the nation’s only Equity theatre company that’s devoted exclusively to developing and producing the work of Native American artists.
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