Larissa FastHorse

There's a lot of movement-based acting. I guess, you know, text-free scenes in my work. The Thanksgiving play is a perfect example. There's several scenes that have little to no text that are movement-based. And they are moving the story forward and they're essential to the story, but without using text or very little text in a lot of scenes.

Oh, a lot. Yeah, I definitely have updated a lot for the times. It's interesting you mentioned Florida. The laws state if something causes, I think it's guilt, discomfort or anguish based on your race, it can't be taught in a school. You'll see those words in the play if you come to it. I wanted to make sure that these people, because they are... Ich nenne es performative Wokeness.

Oh, a lot. Yeah, I definitely have updated a lot for the times. It's interesting you mentioned Florida. The laws state if something causes, I think it's guilt, discomfort or anguish based on your race, it can't be taught in a school. You'll see those words in the play if you come to it. I wanted to make sure that these people, because they are... Ich nenne es performative Wokeness.

Oh, a lot. Yeah, I definitely have updated a lot for the times. It's interesting you mentioned Florida. The laws state if something causes, I think it's guilt, discomfort or anguish based on your race, it can't be taught in a school. You'll see those words in the play if you come to it. I wanted to make sure that these people, because they are... Ich nenne es performative Wokeness.

Es sind weiße Leute, liberale Leute, die wirklich hart versuchen, alles richtig zu machen. Und wie du gesagt hast, alles falsch zu machen. Und ich wollte sicher machen, dass sie Leute von heute sind und nicht jemanden, den man sehen kann. Ich will nicht, dass Leute sagen können, oh, seit 2020 haben wir verändert. Also, das ist nicht ich. Weil es definitiv immer noch ist. Aber interessanterweise...

Es sind weiße Leute, liberale Leute, die wirklich hart versuchen, alles richtig zu machen. Und wie du gesagt hast, alles falsch zu machen. Und ich wollte sicher machen, dass sie Leute von heute sind und nicht jemanden, den man sehen kann. Ich will nicht, dass Leute sagen können, oh, seit 2020 haben wir verändert. Also, das ist nicht ich. Weil es definitiv immer noch ist. Aber interessanterweise...

Es sind weiße Leute, liberale Leute, die wirklich hart versuchen, alles richtig zu machen. Und wie du gesagt hast, alles falsch zu machen. Und ich wollte sicher machen, dass sie Leute von heute sind und nicht jemanden, den man sehen kann. Ich will nicht, dass Leute sagen können, oh, seit 2020 haben wir verändert. Also, das ist nicht ich. Weil es definitiv immer noch ist. Aber interessanterweise...

One of my first writing mentors was the great Marita Mita, who is a Maori writer and filmmaker from New Zealand. And she said to me at my very first screenplay that I wrote, before I was writing plays, she said, Larissa, you can be an artist or you can be an educator. If you try to be both, you'll do one of them badly. So you have to pick one. And I chose artists.

One of my first writing mentors was the great Marita Mita, who is a Maori writer and filmmaker from New Zealand. And she said to me at my very first screenplay that I wrote, before I was writing plays, she said, Larissa, you can be an artist or you can be an educator. If you try to be both, you'll do one of them badly. So you have to pick one. And I chose artists.

One of my first writing mentors was the great Marita Mita, who is a Maori writer and filmmaker from New Zealand. And she said to me at my very first screenplay that I wrote, before I was writing plays, she said, Larissa, you can be an artist or you can be an educator. If you try to be both, you'll do one of them badly. So you have to pick one. And I chose artists.

And she said, there's certainly art that educates. And there's education that's artistic. But you have to choose which one you are and stay true to that.

And she said, there's certainly art that educates. And there's education that's artistic. But you have to choose which one you are and stay true to that.

And she said, there's certainly art that educates. And there's education that's artistic. But you have to choose which one you are and stay true to that.

You know, I'm white passing in many ways. And yet at the same time, before I was writing, when I was acting for a while, and the casting director said to me, we can tell you're not completely white and that's a problem. And I was like, wow. And I was like, okay, I'm done. There's nothing I can do about that.

You know, I'm white passing in many ways. And yet at the same time, before I was writing, when I was acting for a while, and the casting director said to me, we can tell you're not completely white and that's a problem. And I was like, wow. And I was like, okay, I'm done. There's nothing I can do about that.

You know, I'm white passing in many ways. And yet at the same time, before I was writing, when I was acting for a while, and the casting director said to me, we can tell you're not completely white and that's a problem. And I was like, wow. And I was like, okay, I'm done. There's nothing I can do about that.

That should be a little subtitle underneath. United States of America. We can tell you're not white. It's a problem. Yeah, so it was, you know, so I'm, but I am very light skinned. And again, it was something that was sometimes painful because colorism, you know, is a thing in our communities.

That should be a little subtitle underneath. United States of America. We can tell you're not white. It's a problem. Yeah, so it was, you know, so I'm, but I am very light skinned. And again, it was something that was sometimes painful because colorism, you know, is a thing in our communities.

That should be a little subtitle underneath. United States of America. We can tell you're not white. It's a problem. Yeah, so it was, you know, so I'm, but I am very light skinned. And again, it was something that was sometimes painful because colorism, you know, is a thing in our communities.

And it was sometimes painful that I was so light and white passing growing up with a lot of, you know, full blood. My father is full blood and they're much darker, my biological father. Und so hatte ich ein bisschen Schmerz darüber, als ich erwachsen bin. Und besonders, weil ich dann ausgewachsen wurde. Es ist so, wer bist du, weißt du, wieder aufstehen.