Article
Assiniboine Actor, Poet, and Playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr.
First American Art Magazine
(2019)
Abstract
William S. Yellow Robe Jr. (b. 1960) was raised on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana and is an enrolled member of the Assiniboine Tribe of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck Indian reservation. He studied writing and performing arts at the University of Montana. Yellow Robe has written more than forty one-act and full-length plays that have been performed throughout North America, including the Public Theater in New York City, Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. In 2009, he published a collection of full-length plays titled Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers: and Other Untold Stories, as well as Where the Pavement Ends: New Native Drama, a collection of one-act plays. Yellow Robe is a founding member of the American Indian Playwrights Guild and the National American Indian Theater and Performing Arts Alliance. In 2014, he received a prestigious residency from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Though Yellow Robe has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Brown University, and the University of Montana, he is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine (Orono) and the Artistic Director of the Inter-Tribal Playwrights’ Center of Arlee. I spoke with William S. Yellow Robe Jr. in May of 2019 by phone.
Keywords
- William Yellow Robe Jr.,
- William S. Yellow Robe Jr.,
- Assiniboine,
- Indigenous playwright,
- playwright,
- playwrights,
- native playwrights,
- native play,
- native poems,
- indigenous poem,
- indigenous play
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 2019
Citation Information
Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.. "Assiniboine Actor, Poet, and Playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr." First American Art Magazine (2019) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthewryansmith/157/