Native American Authors

Muriel Miguel

Kuna

Rappahannock

Miguel, of Kuna and Rappahannock ancestry, was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She, along with her sisters Gloria Miguel and Lisa Mayo, helped found the Spiderwoman Theater group in 1975. Her activities have also included being a founding member of Joseph Chaikin’s Open Theater and teaching theater at Bard College. The Spiderwoman Theater group has had their plays “Power Pipes” published in Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1999), and “Sun, Moon, and Feather” published in Contemporary Plays by Women of Color: An Anthology (London: Routledge, 1996.)

Awards and Honors

Received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Art degree from Miami University in 1997.

Online resources by or about Muriel Miguel:

A Gathering of elders
Author: Diane Vanaskie
Type: authorbio
Description: A features story from Mount Holyoke College’s “Mount Holyoke News” paper, from 10/8/98, covering a conference discussion with Muriel Miguel, Mildred Nobel, and Trudie Lamb Richmond.

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NYC theater company weaves web of stories
Author: Jessica Kiesler
Type: authorbio
Description: A news story from the University of Illinois’ “Daily Illini” paper, from 10/4/96, covering a lunch with the members of the Spiderwoman Theatre.

URL: http://www.dailyillini.com/archives/1996/October/04/p07_theater.txt.html

Spiderwoman Theater: Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel, Muriel Miguel
Author: Native American Women Playwrights Archive
Type: authorbio
Description: This web site, hosted by the Native American Women Playwrights Archive, provides acces to an online exhibit of the Spiderwoman Theater papers (which were donated to the archive in 1996), as well as a link to a bibliography of works published by/about the Spiderwoman Theatre.

URL: http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/nawpa/Spiderwoman.html

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