Juana Maria by Roger Q. Mason

Outside In Theatre, Skylight Theatre Company, and The Roots and Wings Project present

Juana Maria

A New Performance Work by Roger Q. Mason

Directed by Michael Alvarez

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West of the West Coast lies the isolated St. Nicolas Island where a young Indigenous woman lived for almost two decades without human contact. And then she was “rescued” in 1853 by an American sailor with a bounty. After living as an exotic at the Santa Barbara Mission for seven weeks, rich food, fleeting fame, and the excess of the West killed her. This is a dirge for her last two months alive.

Juana Maria is a recipient of the 2024 Ojai Playwright Conference Fall Playwright Residency.

Juana Maria is Part Three of Roger Q. Mason’s Califas Trilogy, a trio of genre-obliterating plays about the beauty and the underbelly of ambition in America’s West.

Opening May 2025