Playwright Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is an alumnus of the Public  Theater’s Emerging Writer’s Group 2009 and a founding member of  Chukalokoli Native Theater Ensemble and Amerinda Theater.  Vickie just  won the Smith Prize for Political Theater for 2020 and has received  Honorable Mentions by the Kilroys for Pure Native and Standoff At  Hwy#37. Vickie is also consulting on Outer Range for Amazon television.  Currently, she is working on Not Invisible, a podcast celebrating female  Native activists for Redhouse Productions. You can read her work  in Monologues for Actors of Color: Women (2016), Monologues for Actors  of Color: Men, and Contemporary Plays by Women of Color (2017). Member:  Dramatists Guild. Read More.

Jeanette Harrison has produced more than 25 world premiere productions with AlterTheater. She is the architect of AlterTheater's AlterLab playwright residency program; the inaugural AlterLab production was the world premiere of Ann Brebner's THE DEAD GIRL in 2013. She co-directed with Ann Brebner THE RIVER BRIDE by Marisela Treviño Orta (2013 co-winner, National Latino Playwriting Award). Other recent directing credits include the award-winning productions of two AlterTheater commissions by Larissa FastHorse,  Landless (2016 USA PEN Literary Award in Drama), and Cow Pie Bingo (2018 Theatre Bay Area Award, Best Featured Actor); and the multi-Theatre Bay Area Award-winner The Amen Corner by James Baldwin. Read More.

Terry Jones (Seneca - wolf clan) is a film producer & director, screenwriter, actor and corn soup connoisseur who is from the Seneca territory located 50 miles south of Niagara Falls. Previously, Terry produced, edited and starred in the short film Frybread: A Traumedy, which was produced at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM. Pure Native will be Terry's official acting debut in a feature length stage play. As part of his film training, Terry acknowledges his acting teachers including actress and stage director Dawn Jemieson (Cayuga), playwright, writer, theater director, & actor Terry Gomez (IAIA), actress Dášha Bláhová (FAMU film school in Prague) and actress and acting/career coach Barbara Deutsch (Syracuse University).

Erica Smith is thrilled to be a part of this special production. She has had a long career as a performer and choreographer, from Europe, Canada and China to New York and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. A passionate storyteller, her first love has always been creating art for social change. With AlterTheater, Erica has appeared in The Amen Corner, Intimate Apparel, and Thirst. Erica has received a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for Best Ensemble, the Dean Goodman award for Best Female Lead in a musical and a Theatre Bay Area award for Best Featured Role in a Play. She is also featured in An Improbable Dream, a documentary about training to be a professional dancer at the National Ballet of Canada. Passionate about utilizing original performance art to empower youth from all backgrounds, Erica has also taught dance, choreography, acting, musical theatre and script writing to all ages at numerous performing arts and academic institutions throughout the Bay Area for many years. She is currently the All School Director of Dance and Theatre Arts at San Domenico School in San Anselmo, CA.

Manny Martinez is a New Yorker who spent his teenage years in Puerto Rico. A powerhouse vocalist who’s played a central role on the Bay Area alternative music scene for three decades, he’s best known in some circles for his work as frontman for the alt-rock band Psychefunkapus. For rock en español fans he’s indelibly linked to the alt-Latin combo Los Mocosos, while others think of Martinez as a top-notch salsero via Mazacote, John Santos, and Jesus Diaz. La Rebeldia brings Martinez’s various passions under one roof, combining funk, salsa, hip-hop, politics, literature and education. Collaborating with eight-time Grammy-nominated producer Greg Landau, the band released its debut EP Identidad Profunda (Deep Identity) last year, announcing Martinez’s arrival as a bandleader in his own right.

Photo Credit: Diana Sanchez

Eduardo Soria is the co-founder of CCSF’s very own Theatre Club to help other theatre majors refine their techniques from acting to tech and to expose other students on campus as well as the surrounding community to performance art. Recent performances includethe world premier of Ghosts of Bogotá (Bruno) by Diana Burbano at AlterTheater, El Rio (Fernando) at the Brava Theatre, Memoria del Silencio en el Pias de la Eterna Primavera (Fernando, Esqueleto, Viejo, and Military Captain) at the Mission Cultural Center of Latino Arts, Buffalo Soldiers: The Untold Story (Wolf Sleeve) at the Oakstop, and Cradle Will Rock (Diego Rivera) Mission (Herbert) as well as writing & performing an original solo one act Dia De Mi Muerte at CCSF’s Diego Rivera Theatre. Eduardo has also written & directed a one act Perfect that was also performed at CCSF’s Diego Rivera Theatre. Infinite thank you’s to his father, two sisters, family, friends, and mentors for their ongoing love and support.