Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna/ Rappahannock Nations) is an author, playwright, director, producer, cultural
artist, educator, and human rights activist.
Murielle began working as an artist early in her life with Spiderwoman Theatre. After attending Long Island
University, she began combining Native American myth and creation stories to help compose a subgenre of
literature referred to as Indigenous Fantasy. She is the author of the book series “The Star Medicine” and
short stories published by Miami University Press.
She is the Artistic Director of Safe Harbor Indigenous Collective. She has recently produced, written and
directed “Don’t Feed the Indians- A Divine Comedy Pageant!” at La MaMa. She works on the deconstructing
the pedagogy of the arts within Native communities in the NYC education system.
Nominated for the Rockefeller grant in 2001, she won a Native Heart Award. She served as the Special
Assistant to the North American Regional representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues. Global Indigenous Woman’s Caucus Chair (North America) in 2013 to May of 2014. She has
spoken at the Indigenous Women’s Symposium at Trent University, at the International Conference at the
Muthesius Academy of Art in Kiel Germany, and the Norwegian Theater Academy.
Murielle Borst-Tarrant is the recipient of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s 2020 National Playwright
Residency Program.
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