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Cochise Anderson
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ABOUT COCHISE
M. COCHISE ANDERSON, from the CHICKASAW and CHOCTAW Nations of OKLAHOMA, who grew up in North Torrance ~ LA, Calif. & Portland, OR, is a musician, actor, poet, spoken word performance artist, playwright, storyteller, and educator. He studied THEATRE ARTS and PHILOSOPHY at Portland (OR) State University and at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in NYC, and has been working in the upper Midwest and across the country as a Native American cultural arts educator and traditional musician for the past seventeen years. Cochise received the Jerome Fellowship for playwriting (The Education of Benjamin Franklin) and the Bush Artist Fellowship for Storytelling/ Performance Art (The Only Good Poet is a Read Poet).
As a musician, Cochise has performed at Mashantucket Pequot Museum, The National Museum of the American Indian twice and The Open House Arts Festival at the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He has also been a repeat performer at the Lincoln Center Outdoors Series in New York City. Cochise, a former member of the group Pura Fe (now known as Ulali), has shared the stage and bill with many great Native artists including Bill Miller, John Trudell, and Annie Humphrey.
Cochise
ABOUT COCHISE
M. COCHISE ANDERSON, from the CHICKASAW and CHOCTAW Nations of OKLAHOMA, who grew up in North Torrance ~ LA, Calif. & Portland, OR, is a musician, actor, poet, spoken word performance artist, playwright, storyteller, and educator. He studied THEATRE ARTS and PHILOSOPHY at Portland (OR) State University and at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in NYC, and has been working in the upper Midwest and across the country as a Native American cultural arts educator and traditional musician for the past seventeen years. Cochise received the Jerome Fellowship for playwriting (The Education of Benjamin Franklin) and the Bush Artist Fellowship for Storytelling/ Performance Art (The Only Good Poet is a Read Poet).
As a musician, Cochise has performed at Mashantucket Pequot Museum, The National Museum of the American Indian twice and The Open House Arts Festival at the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He has also been a repeat performer at the Lincoln Center Outdoors Series in New York City. Cochise, a former member of the group Pura Fe (now known as Ulali), has shared the stage and bill with many great Native artists including Bill Miller, John Trudell, and Annie Humphrey.
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