Name Monique Mojica | Role Actor | |
Books Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots: Two Plays Movies Smoke Signals, The Perfect Man, The Good Mother, Vue D'ailleurs Similar Jani Lauzon, Chris Eyre, Leonard Nimoy, Denys Arcand, Mark Rosman | ||
Interview with monique mojica 2014 the summit
Monique Mojica (Kuna and Rappahannock) is a playwright, director, and actor based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was born in New York City, but came to Canada as founding member of Native Earth Performing Arts.
Contents
- Interview with monique mojica 2014 the summit
- Monique mojica
- Biography
- Career
- Filmography
- Theatre appearances
- References
She has appeared in several films and plays. She is perhaps most notable for her roles in Smoke Signals in 1998 and her stage play Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots.
Monique mojica
Biography
Mojica comes from a long line of theatre practitioners. Her mother, Gloria Miguel, and aunts Muriel Miguel and Lisa Mayo (born Elizabeth Miguel) are the founders of Spiderwoman Theater. Mojica began training in acting and theatre at the age of three and follows many of the traditions of storytelling and theatre creating seen in Spiderwoman's works.
Career
Her most famous plays include Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots, Birdwoman and the Suffragettes, and Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milkyway. She has collaborated with Floyd Favel on research and theatre projects that focus on Native performance culture.
From 1983 to 1985 she was artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts, which is Canada's oldest professional Indigenous theatre company.
Along with Jani Lauzon and Michelle St. John, Mojica co-founded Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble which produced the plays The Scrubbing Project and The Tripple Truth.
Mojica is co-editor of Staging Coyote's Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English with Ric Knowles.
She has been nominated for best supporting actress by Native Americans in the Arts for her role in Smoke Signals.