Larissa, an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, grew up in South Dakota and began
her career as a professional ballet dancer, however she always loved to write.
A published and produced playwright, Larissa is currently working on new plays with the Tony
Award winning Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Cornerstone Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Arizona Theatre Company and Cherokee Historical Association. She is a member of the 2011/12 Center Theatre Group Writer’s Workshop.
She has had scripts in development with Fox, TeenNick and the Sundance / Ford Fellowship.
Larissa’s plays may be found with Plays for Young Audiences, the Native American Women Playwrights Archive at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and in the Alexander Street Press North American Indian Drama Database.
Click on the links below to learn more about individual scripts.
Click on the photo below to read the Los Angeles Times feature article on Larissa.
