Imperfect Relationality Workshop - Interdisciplinary Arts Lab 2023 Movement Research, New York, NY - (via) International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC) Residency - August 2023 - Workshop Facilitator.
International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC) Residency Artists Residency - Wallkill, NY & New York, NY - July / August 2023 - IIAC Artist Residency Participant.
The Yanomami Struggle: Art and Activism in the Amazon Public reading of the UNDRIP - The Shed - New York, NY - April 2023 - A first session reader of the UNDRIP.
Este Cate - Play Reading - theatre KAPOW Expanding The Canon 3: a play reading circle - Manchester, NH - February 2023 - Online play reading and discussion.
Stomp Dance Over Reclamation Performance - Museum of Modern Art - A Variety Show Celebrating Diane Burns and the American Indian Community Hose - New York, NY - January 2023 - Performer.
Stomp Dance Over Reclamation Video - The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image 2022 - Spoken Word Competition Finalist / First Prize, Experimental Spoken Word Category / Grand Prize Winner, Spoken Word Category / Screened online - October to November, 2022. Writer / Performer.
Ugly Brown - Video - The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image 2022 Spoken Word Competition Finalist - Screened online - October to November, 2022. Writer / Performer.
Este Cate - Video - The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image 2022. Short Narrative - Screened online - October to November, 2022.Writer / Performer.
Safe Harbors, NYC, Workshop - Curator / Participant - American Indian Community House, Inc. NY Summer Arts Residency Program 2022, Governors Island, New York, NY, October 2022.
Reading & Discussion: Pena Bonita - Curator / Artist Assistant - American Indian Community House, Inc. NYC Indian Summer Arts Residency Program 2022, Governors Island, New York, NY, October 2022
Savage Conversations - Staged Reading - American Indian Community House, Inc. NYC Indian Summer Arts Residency Program 2022, Governors Island, New York, NY, September 2022. Staged reading curator and performer.
Este Cate - Performance - Reflections Of Native Voices Under Construction - Safe Harbors, NYC, New York, NY, June 2022. Writer and Performer.
Collective Voices: Community Talks - Video Direction American Indian Community House, Inc., New York, NY, November 2021.
Este Cate - Video Presentation - Reflections Of Native Voices Theater Festival - Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY, February 2021 - Writer, Producer, and Performer.
Don’t Feed The Indians: A Divine Comedy Pageant - Performance Don’t Feed The Indians Ensemble - Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY - 2014 to present & ongoing - Red Dirt (performance role).
It Came From Across The Pond - Podcast Amerinda, New York, NY, July 2020 - Ernie (performance role).
Theater & Performance Panel 100 Years | 100 Women Initiative - Panelist - Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY February, 2020 Safe Harbors NYC Performer / Panelist.
Mnisose - Staged Reading - Reflections Of Native Voices Theater Festival Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY, January, 2020 - Charbonneau / Carl (performance role).
Este Cate - Staged Reading - Reflections Of Native Voices Theater Festival Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY, January, 2020 - Writer and Performer.
Back Pack - Studio Showing Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY, January 2019 - Writer and performer.
Brown Body - Performance - Thinking Its Presence The Ephemeral Archive Conference - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - October 2017 - Writer and Performer.
Brown Body - Performance - Gender Daze Series The Center: The LGB&T Community Center, New York, NY, May 2017 - Writer and Performer.
Performance Organizations - Don’t Feed The Indians Ensemble - Member - Safe Harbors, NYC. - Team Member - Safe Harbors, NYC.
Education - Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY - MFA in Performance + Performance Studies. - New York University, New York, NY - MA in Drama Therapy. - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK - BFA in Dance Pedagogy.
Licensure / Certification - Licensed Creative Arts Therapist - New York State Education Department. - Registered Drama Therapist - North American Drama Therapy Association.
Other Related Capacities - Practicing Registered Drama Therapist - Licensed New York State Creative Arts Therapist. - Guest Lecture - Interweave Indigeneity with drama therapy theory and methodology to generate Indigenous experiential, therapeutic, clinical, and or performance material. - Presenter / Participant - Safe Harbors, NYC Native American Directors Lab for Emerging Native American Directors. San Francisco and Minneapolis. - Assistant to Master Class Instructor - La MaMa Umbria: 2022 International Symposium for Directors - Assistant to master class instructor, Murielle Borst-Tarrant, Safe Harbors, NYC, Artistic Director, with the facilitation of daily, one-week instructional sessions that utilized Native storyweaving as the theoretical and methodological foundation for theater performance and direction. - Artist In Residence - American Indian Community House, Inc. NYC, Indian Summer Arts Residency Program, September to October 2022. Curate and participate as artist in residence for artist-in-residence community events.
Awards Video Writer / Performer - Stomp Dance Over Reclamation - The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image 2022 Spoken Word Competition Finalist / First Prize, Experimental Spoken Word Category / Grand Prize Winner, Spoken Word Category / Screened online - October to November, 2022.