Hanay Geiogamah was born on 1945 and is a Native American playwright, television and movie producer, and artistic director.
18 Facts About Hanay Geiogamah
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Hanay Geiogamah is a professor emeritus of the school of theater, film, and television at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Hanay Geiogamah served as the director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center from 2002 to 2009.
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Hanay Geiogamah is a widely known Native American playwright and one of the few Native American producers of both television and film in Hollywood.
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Hanay Geiogamah was born in Lawton, Oklahoma to a Kiowa father and a Delaware mother.
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Hanay Geiogamah is an enrolled citizen of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.
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Hanay Geiogamah graduated from Anadarko High School and studied journalism at the University of Oklahoma.
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Hanay Geiogamah graduated in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in theatre with a minor in journalism.
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In late 1971, Hanay Geiogamah formed a theater company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City's East Village.
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Hanay Geiogamah later formed the widely acclaimed American Indian Dance Theatre, which gave its first public performance in 1987 with Hanay Geiogamah as director and Barbara Schwei as producer.
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Barbara Schwei and Hanay Geiogamah were producers and Phil Lucas and Geiogamah were directors.
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Hanay Geiogamah served as producer and co-producer for the TBS multimedia project, The Native Americans: Behind the Legends, Beyond the Myths, aired on TNT from 1993 to 1996.
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Hanay Geiogamah was co-producer on "The Broken Chain", which told the story of the Iroquois Confederacy during colonial times, and for "Geronimo".
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In 1996, Hanay Geiogamah was producer for TNT's "Crazy Horse," about the war leader of the Oglala Lakota.
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Hanay Geiogamah was co-executive producer for The Only Good Indian, an independently produced Western starring Cherokee actor Wes Studi.
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In 2010, Hanay Geiogamah joined co-host Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies for "Race in Hollywood: Native American Images on Film", a series that looked both positive and negative depictions of the Hollywood Indian.
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Hanay Geiogamah serves on the National Film Preservation Board established in 1988 as an advisory body to the Librarian of Congress' National Film Registry.
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Hanay Geiogamah was a founder and co-director of "Project HOOP", a national, multidisciplinary initiative to establish Native American theater in tribal colleges, Native communities, K-12 schools, and mainstream institutions.