Terry Gomez
Comanche Nation
University of New Mexico

Terry Gomez (Comanche Nation), a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) student in the Department of Dramatic Writing at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and American Indian College Fund Mellon Fellowship 2007-08 winner, will have her work brought to the stage. Her work will be featured in this month’s Words Afire! New Works Play Festival at the University of New Mexico Center for the Arts, in Albuquerque. Since 2004, Gomez has been a faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, teaching courses in dramatic writing, acting and play production. She is also an IAIA alumna.

Gomez’s thesis is a collection of three plays focusing on the history of how Native American women are negatively depicted in theater and film, and how this contributes to an invisibility of Native woman in society, low self-esteem, and a re-identification of self, especially in the case of younger people. She will develop the plays into full productions.

For details about Words Afire! and scheduled performance times, please go to http://www.abqarts.com