Sheila Tousey

Sheila Tousey

출생 : 1960-06-04, Keshena, Wisconsin, U.S.

약력

Tousey is a Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee Native American, raised on both the Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee reservations. A professional dancer and actress, Tousey began doing pow wows as a small child but did not perform on stage until she attended the University of New Mexico. She initially entered the university's law program, planning to specialize in federal contracts and Native American law, but later changed her major to English, and began taking theater arts courses. After graduation, Tousey enrolled in the graduate acting program at New York University's Tisch School of Arts.

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Sheila Tousey

참여 작품

Manahatta
Bobbie / Mother / Ensemble
In this timely world-premiere drama by celebrated playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, past and present intertwine. Nagle’s story illuminates the tragic consequences of commercial exploits, including the removal of Native people and the attempted eradication of their culture, that gave rise to the America we know today. Securities trader Jane Snake is torn between worlds. Her return to Wall Street in 2008 brings her to Manahatta (“island of many hills” in Lenape), the homeland her ancestors were violently forced to leave in the 1600s. Meanwhile, her family in Oklahoma struggles to save their language, their culture and their over-mortgaged home. Jane Snake’s return to Manahatta defiantly demonstrates that the Lenape are still here.
Julius Caesar
Cicero / Plebeian / Ensemble
This muscular 2017 production features the signature physical storytelling of director Shana Cooper and choreographer Erika Chong Shuch. Shakespeare's political thriller shows what happens to powerbrokers—honorable and not—when their motives and means lead to unexpected consequences they cannot control.
Johnny Tootall
Agnes
Discharged from Bosnian war, Johnny carries the weight of this war on his shoulders. He left the war with a dark and frightening secret, the murder of a young boy that haunts him. But Johnny carries many demons. The death of his father, running from his destiny as Chief of the Band and abandoning the love of his life. Nevertheless, Johnny must return home, the wolf spirit has called. Upon his return, he finds a new war. His estranged brother is leading his people in a revolt to save their sacred land. Johnny faces a dilemma; does he fight to save his people, or does he save himself? His journey will guide him to realizing that they are the same. In a blink, his world changes and in death, his brother guides him on a spirit walk to meet his destiny as leader of his people.
Dreamkeeper
Janine
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic.
This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs
Chonchella
Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."
Skinwalkers
Emma Leaphorn
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
Christmas in the Clouds
Mary
A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Backroads
Grace Nelson
A lawyer returns to her Cree reservation to defend her sister against murder charges.
블러드 솔저
Martha
1847년의 아메리카. 개척과 야욕의 시대에 일확천금을 꿈꾸는 사람들은 금광을 캐기 위해 서쪽으로 영역을 넓혀가면서 전쟁을 일으키고 미국은 곳곳에서 살인과 약탈이 빈번한 암흑의 세월을 맞는다. 미국과 멕시코간에 벌어진 전쟁에서 존 대위는 전방의 한 전투지에서 그의 대원들과 고립된다. 존과 대원들은 네바다 산맥의 추위와 허기에 시달리고 있을 즈음, 어느날 정체 불명의 사나이 콘 혼이 그들의 기지로 찾아온다. 대원들은 콘 혼과 함께 식량 조달을 위한 여행에 그를 동참시키지만, 동료가 흘리는 피를 보는 콘 홀의 반응이 심상치 않음을 느낀다. 이를 의심한 대원들은 콜 혼의 결박하고 그가 생활했던 동굴을 찾아간다. 조사중 동굴 속에서 사람들의 시체와 식인의 흔적을 본 존 대위는 경악하고 동굴밖으로 나오지만 이미 콘 혼의 손에 대원 모두가 생명을 잃은 후다. 죽음의 위기를 넘기고 가까스로 콜 혼의 손아귀로 부터 빠져나온 존은 마을에 도착하고 몇일동안 계속해서 사람의 생살을 먹는 콜의 악몽에 시달린다. 그러던 어느 날 새로운 사령관이 부임해오고 그를 맞으러 나간 존은 새로운 대위가 바로 살인마 콜이라는 것을 알고 경악하는데...
Sparkler
Hurricane
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on their trip.
All the Winters that Have Been
Irene (as Sheila M. Tousey)
Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win her back and slowly re-enters her daily life. But Helen has a secret, and unless Dane can forgive her and understand the powerful feelings that motivated her to keep it from him, their fragile relationship will not survive.
Song of Hiawatha
Nokomis
This adaptation of an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of Hiawatha (Litefoot), a brave Native American Indian, and his love for the beautiful Minehaha (Irene Bedard)
Grand Avenue
Mollie
When Mollie's boyfriend Jack dies on the reservation, she is asked to leave the reservation by her boyfriend's sister for not being one of their own, aside from Mollie's son. Mollie is forced to pack up her belongings and her children and move to northern California, right into a gang infested neighborhood.
일루젼
Jennifer Desiderio
환상가인 닉스는 수제자인 스완을 무척이나 신뢰하며 자신의 모든 능력을 전수해 함께 세상을 자신의 손아귀에 넣으려 하나 스완은 그런 그의 뜻에 동조하지 않는다. 결국 스완의 마음을 돌리려 닉스는 한 소녀를 납치하고 이를 찾으러 온 스완과 친구들은 닉스와 대결을 벌인다. 전혀 상대가 되어 보이지 않던 순간 소녀가 닉스에게 총을 쏘고, 스완은 친구들과 닉스를 단단히 봉해 땅속 깊은 곳에 묻어버린다. 그리고 13년 후... 유능한 사립탐정 해리 다모어는 보험사기사건을 해결하러 로스앤젤레스에 온다. 휴양 삼아 느긋한 마음으로 범인을 쫓고 있던 다모어는 점성술사의 집에서 온몸에 칼이 꽂힌 채 고문당하는 흑인 남자를 발견한다. 퓨리탄과 닉스란 이름을 들먹이며 흑인남자를 괴롭히던 괴한들은 유리파편이 몸에 박히고 높은 건물에서 떨어져도 끄덕 없다. 게다가 세계적인 마술사 필립 스완의 아내도로시아는 다모어에게 알 듯 모를 듯한 제안을 해오는데...
Silent Tongue
Awbonnie / Ghost
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't bury her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with Roe.
Slaughter of the Innocents
Agent Lemar
A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a new Noah.
붉은 사슴비
Maggie Eagle Bear
FBI 요원 레이 르보이는 인디언 문제에는 베테랑인 프랭크 쿠텔을 도와 삶인범을 체포하다록 사우스 다코타로 파견된다. 인디언 혈통인 레이가 사건해결에 도움이 되리라는 상관의 판단 때문. 레이는 처음에는 인디언을 다루는데 능숙한 쿠텔을 잘 따랐으나 파인리치 인디언 보호구역에서의 권력남용과 쿠텔이 지목한 용의자 '지미 두번 보다'가 조작극의 희생양이라는 사실을 알고는 그를 의심하기 시작한다.