Monique Mojica: Wed Oct 31st, 5:30pm
The Department of Drama and Four Directions Aboriginal Students Centre present:
A PUBLIC READING BY PLAYWRIGHT MONIQUE MOJICA on Wednesday October 31st, 2007 at 5:30pm at Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre located at 146 Barrie Street
Monique Mojica is a Kuna and Rappahannock actor and playwright based in Toronto. Her theatre credits include acting in the premiere productions of Florence Gibson’s Home is My Road, Djanet Sears’ The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, Drew Hayden Taylor’s Sucker Falls, Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters, the title role in Jessica by Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths and the solo role in Floyd Favel’s one-woman play Governor of the Dew. Together with Jani Lauzon and Michelle St. John, she founded Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble which produced its first full-length play The Scrubbing Project in the fall of 2002.
Her dramatic works include the television script, “Positively Native” (1990); the radio play Birdwoman and the Suffragettes (1991); the one act play A Fast Growing Mold Bitter as Shame (1995); and Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots (1990).
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