From THE ARTS AT BGSU
Mary Kathryn Nagle, the associate producer of the film “Prey,” will speak on “The Sovereignty of Our Stories” Thursday, Oct. 13 at 5:30 p.m. Donnell Theater in the Wolfe Center on the BGSU campus.
The free public lecture is part of the as part of BGSU’s “In the Round” series which has brought indigenous creatives to campus.
Playwright and lawyer Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She works to protect tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault.
From 2015 to 2019, she served as the first Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program. Nagle is an alum of the 2013 Public Theater Emerging Writers Program. Productions include Miss Lead (Amerinda, 59E59), Fairly Traceable (Native Voices at the Autry), Sovereignty (Arena Stage), Manahatta (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Return to Niobrara (Rose Theater), and Crossing Mnisose (Portland Center Stage), Sovereignty (Marin Theatre Company), and Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theatre). She has received commissions from Arena Stage, the Rose Theater (Omaha, Nebraska), Portland Center Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Yale Repertory Theatre, Round House Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Theater. Recently, she served as an Associate Producer on the 2022 sci-fi thriller, PREY, now showing on Hulu. The big-budget film is a prequel to the Predator series and features an all-Indigenous feature cast.
She is most well known for her work on ending violence against Native women. Her play “Sliver of a Full Moon” has been performed in law schools from Stanford to Harvard, NYU, and Yale. She has worked extensively on Violence Against Women Act re-authorization, and she has filed numerous briefs in the United States Supreme Court, as a part of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center’s VAWA Sovereignty Initiative, including most recently, United States v. Cooley, Oklahoma v. McGirt, and Oklahoma v. Murphy. She represents numerous families of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, including Kaysera Stops Pretty Places’ family who has brought a public campaign demanding an investigation into her murder.
More can be read here: www.justiceforkaysera.org
Parking is available in Parking Lot N near Jerome Library.
