Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) Monique’s theatrical practice is centred in land-based embodied research and the development of culturally specific Indigenous dramaturgies. Her first play, Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots was produced in 1990 and is taught in curricula internationally. She founded Chocolate Woman Collective in 2006 to create the play Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way.

She is the co-editor, with Ric Knowles, of Staging Coyote’s Dream, vols. I & II and of the newly released volume III, co-edited with Lindsay Lachance. Also recently launched is Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance, written with Brenda Farnell which was awarded an honourable mention for a subsequent book from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.

Most recent performances include: Izzie M.: The Alchemy of Enfreakment written by Monique with a diverse creative team, My Sister’s Rage for Tarragon Theatre and The Unnatural and Accidental Women at the NAC. Monique has collaborated with Santee Smith since 2013 as the dramaturg for Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s tryptic, Re-Quickening/ Blood Tides/SKe:NEN and for Teneil Whiskeyjack’s Ayita for Edmonton’s SkirtsAfire Festival.