Arigon Starr's Biography

Starr’s music has taken her around the world. She has toured the United Kingdom, including stops in London and the famous West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, in addition to appearances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Milwaukee Indian Summer Festival, the Gathering of Nations Powwow, and at venues like Sky City Casino in New Mexico, Viejas Casino in San Diego, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, the Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and the University of Washington, Seattle.

 Starr has also gained fame as a talented actress. Native Voices at the Autry has featured her in several productions, including lead roles in the staged reading of Shirley Cheechoo’s Moose River Crossing and the West Coast premiere and Equity production of Drew Hayden Taylor’s The Buz’Gem Blues. She played Mother Goodeye in the Wells Fargo Radio Theater production of N. Scott Momaday’s The Indolent Boys, which was recently broadcast on the American Indian Radio On Satellite. She also starred in the Equity productions and world premieres of Please Do Not Touch the Indians in March 2004 and Kino & Teresa at the Autry National Center in 2005. Starr recently made her network television debut on Showtime’s hit comedy show, Barbershop: The Series and has also appeared on ABC's daytime drama General Hospital. Starr’s acting work has garnered two First Americans in the Arts Awards, the Maverick Award from the Los Angeles Women’s Theater Project, and a Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers Award.

Arigon Starr’s first play, The Red Road, is a wild, wacky comedy with music, which Native Voices at the Autry world-premiered at the Autry National Center on March 30, 2006. The play garnered rave reviews from the Los Angeles Times and Daily Variety. The Red Road will tour internationally, including stops at the prestigious National Museum of the American Indian in New York City and Washington, DC.

Native Voices at the Autry has commissioned Arigon Starr to create a 10-part radio comedy series called Super Indian which chronicles the adventures of Hubert Logan, a reservation Indian boy with uncanny powers. The series is being produced for the 2006 Native Voices at the Autry Festival of New Plays in November, in conjunction with the Native Radio Theater Project and the National Audio Theater. Super Indian was originally produced during the 2006 National Audio Theater Festival in West Plains, Missouri and was broadcast nationally on National Public Radio.

Starr continues to study acting at the prestigious Howard Fine Studio, improv with the Groundlings, and is represented by Kristene Wallis at the Wallis Agency. Starr is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

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