Now that we’re in Native American Heritage Month and the Public’s Native Theater Festival is just around the corner (November 12, to be exact), New York’s suddenly been flush with master thespians of Native American descent. Nowhere was that more apparent that at
August: Osage County’s matinee performance on November 5. In the audience were none other than actress Sheila Tousey, who serves on the advisory committee for the Native Theater Festival, and Wes Studi, whose film credits include
Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans and
Geronimo: An American Legend, to name a few. Both were on hand to admire the work of Kimberly Guerrero, a fellow Native American performer who plays Johnna, the glue that keeps
August's highly dysfunctional characters from combusting. After the show, Studi and Tousey joined a small group of audience members for a talkback session. Tak