The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Nora Montañez – Nora Montañez is an Afro-descendent Indigenous Peruvian playwright, director, actor, and educator based in Mni Sota Makoce, on the ancestral lands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe. She was raised in Paterson, NJ and holds a BFA from Florida Atlantic University. In Minneapolis, Nora has performed at Theatre Latte Da, Pillsbury House Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, The Guthrie Theater, Theatre Mu and Mixed Blood to name a few. Nora has directed various productions for Minneapolis Public School’s, Saint Paul for the Conservatory Performing Artists, Chicago Avenue Project with Pillsbury House Theatre’s, Project Opera with Minnesota Opera and Exposed Brick Theater. She is the creator of the pedagogy Decolonizing the Artists which has been facilitated at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, where she was a part of the founding faculty for the Greenroom fellowship, Center for the Performing Artists and Exposed Brick Theater. Currently, Nora is a Minneapolis Public School teacher, a Project Manager with Upstream Arts and the Founder/Executive Director of ALMA (Alliance of Latine Minnesota Artists). Nora’s work has been recognized as a 2018 Next Step Grant recipient, a 20/21 Many Voices Mentee at the Playwrights Center, a 21/22 Creative Support Grant recipient, the 21/22 Artist-in- Residence with the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota and a Avanzando Liderazgo Fellow with LatinoLead. Nora’s extensive work has been honored in the Yo. Un Latino en Minnesota by MLatino Media