Vickie Ramirez

Background

About Vickie Ramirez

Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is a founding member of the Chukalokoli Native Theater Ensemble and Amerinda Theater. In 2009 Vickie became the first Indigenous playwright accepted to the Emerging Writer’s Group at New York’s famed Public Theater, and she is also the first Indigenous playwright granted a residency at New Dramatists. Vickie received two honorable mentions by the Kilroy’s, once in 2015, for Standoff at Hwy#37 and again in 2019 for Pure Native. Pure Native was also a semi-finalist for the Bay Area’s Playwright’s conference in 2019. Vickie has also been awarded the NNPN’s 2020 Smith Prize for Political Theater. Recent Productions: Pure Native - Native Voices at the Autry (L.A.), Standoff at Hwy#37 – Native Voices at the Autry (L.A.) and the University of South Dakota, Glenburn 12 W.P- Summer Shorts at 59E59, Smoke - Mixed Phoenix Theatre Group at Pershing Square Signature Center. Vickie is also consulting on Outer Range for Amazon television, and she is currently part of the team developing Not Invisible: Native Womxn on The Frontlines, a podcast about the MMIWG2ST crisis for Redhouse Productions. You can read her work in Monologues for Actors of Color: Women (2016), Monologues for Actors of Color Men, and Contemporary Plays by Women of Color (2017). Member: Dramatists Guild, PEN America Specialties: Native Theater,