Here’s the 2016 interview Brian did with playwright Larissa FastHorse, before The Thanksgiving Play and her MacArthur “genius” grant, but after she’d worked with Cornerstone Theater and director Michael John Garcés on Urban Rez and had written the play What Would Crazy Horse Do? for Kansas City Rep. (Brian’s latest check-in with FastHorse is here.)

Brian and Larissa talk about Los Angeles traffic, about the Indigenous roots and resonances of Urban Rez, about growing up Lakota, about working as a professional ballerina, about faking it till you make it in Hollywood (which would give her title of a play years later), and about a new play she’s working on, about white folks trying to stage a politically correct play about Thanksgiving (sound familiar?).