A play about rediscovering culture, reclaiming Indigenous identity, and learning what it means to be a Native woman in contemporary America.

Join Matriarchy Theatre’s inaugural production sponsored by Teatro Espejo. Matriarchy Theatre is a new theatre company based in Sacramento, California. Founded by Nicole C. Limón, Matriarchy Theatre aims to center women's voices and stories, with a focus on creating opportunities for women of color in theatre.

Ivy Johnson was adopted in the fall of 1998 to a Mexican American mother and an African American father. Although it's obvious that she's of color, she has never known where she comes from or her racial background - that is until she sorts through her mail at Thanksgiving. The following weeks come with major discoveries, but they only leave her with more questions. What makes someone Native? A blood quantum mandate demanded by the Federal Government? Culture, language, and pride? What does it mean when your identity is stripped away from you? Rediscovering culture, reclaiming Indigenous identity, and learning what it means to be a Native woman in contemporary America is the road Ivy must travel. Inspired by Tara Moses' maternal grandfather's story. Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 2020 and 2021.

Tara Moses (she/her) is a citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Mvskoke, director, award-winning playwright, Artistic Director of Red Eagle Soaring, and co-Founder of Groundwater Arts. As a playwright, some of her completed works include Sections, He’eo’o (Winner of the 2019 Native Storytellers Contest), Quantum (2020 and 2021 Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference), Bound (2019 Native American New Play Festival Winner), the adaptation of Hamlet: El Príncipe de Denmark, Don Juan, Snag, Sugar, and OklaHOME (a 10-minute play,) among others. She is associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society; and Dramatists Guild member and is currently a M.F.A. Candidate in Directing at Brown University/Trinity Rep.