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The Silversides Theatre Artists Series 2016 presents Canadian actor and playwright Monique Mojica in a talk, "Inscripted Earth: embodiment of place as research, process and performance."

Monique Mojica will describe her evolving process of creating an Indigenous dramaturgy rooted in land-based embodied research. This presentation looks specifically at work begun in 2011 (along with a collaborative team of Indigenous artists) and focuses on effigy mounds and earthworks as the first literary structures on this land. 

Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock nations)  is passionately dedicated to a theatrical practice as an act of healing, of reclaiming historical/ cultural memory and of resistance. Spun directly from the family-web of New York’s Spiderwoman Theater, her theatrical practice embraces not only her artistic lineage through mining stories embedded in the body, but also the connection to stories coming through land and place.

Monique’s first play was produced in 1990 and is widely taught in curricula internationally. She was a co-founder of with whom she created , the Dora nominated and . In 2007, she founded to develop the play , a performance created by devising a dramaturgy specific to Guna cultural aesthetics, story narrative and literary structure.

Monique has taught Indigenous Theatre in theory, process and practice at the , the , and is a former co- director of the . She has lectured on embodied research and taught embodied performance workshops throughout Canada, the U.S., Latin America and Europe.

She was most recently seen onstage in ’s world premiere of Re-Quickening choreographed by Santee Smith and with the in as part of the Life Reflected series.

Upcoming projects include Side Show Freaks & Circus Injuns co-written with Choctaw playwright, LeAnne Howe and directed by Jorge Luis Morejón with an illustrious collaborative team of Indigenous artists from diverse disciplines.