Monique Mojica

Monique Mojica is a playwright, director and actor who was born in New York City and came to Canada as a founding member of Native Earth Performing Arts. She grew up in a theater family: her mother, Gloria Miguel, and her aunts Muriel Miguel and Lisa Mayo founded Spiderwoman Theater, and Mojica began acting training at age three. Her plays include Birdwoman and the Suffragettes, Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milkyway and Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots. She has worked with Floyd Favel on Native performance projects. Mojica was artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts from 1983 to 1985 and is artistic director of Chocolate Woman Collective. With Jani Lauzon and Michelle St. John she co-founded Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble. Her film work includes Smoke Signals (1998), and Native Americans in the Arts nominated her for best supporting actress for that role. In 2019 she performed in The Unnatural and Accidental Women at the National Arts Centre's Indigenous Theatre.