Hanay Geiogamah is a playwright, TV and movie producer, artistic
director, and a professor of theater in the School of Theater, Film and
Television at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was born in
Lawton, Oklahoma, and is Native American of Kiowa/Delaware descent. He
served as a producer for the TNT TV series of "The Native Americans:
Behind The Legends, Beyond the Myths" in 1993. He is considered the
first widely known and successful Native American playwrights and one
of the few Native American producers in Hollywood.
Professor, UCLA School of Film, Theatre, and Television
Serves on the National Film Preservation Board established in 1988 as an advisory body to the Librarian of Congress' National Film Registry.
From 2002 to 2009, he served as the director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
Founded the American Indian Theatre Ensemble in New York City and formed the acclaimed American Indian Dance Theatre, which toured the world and performed on PBS' Great Performances.
We're not going to attain success just because we're Indian. We can't expect our ethnic uniqueness to accomplish it for us. That's not going to happen.