Hiawatha Project explores the experiences of living in Pittsburgh and connects these experiences to regional, national, and global social questions.  In this way, we strive to illuminate human connections by discovering the universal and infinite in the ordinary and specific.

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With its first barrier breaking work, Camino, Hiawatha Project was founded in 2011 “with scenes of imagination and poetic insight." (Pittsburgh Post Gazette) For 10 years Hiawatha Project has produced original professional theatre with a heart for social justice, and a rich and layered aesthetic to present theatre which “will alternately rouse you and break your heart.” (City Paper for JH: Mechanics of a Legend) Hiawatha has received funding awards from AER Capacity Building, The August Wilson Center Legacy Fund, August Wilson Center Programing, Brooks Foundation, Heinz Small Arts Initiative, Opportunity Fund, Spout Fund, PA Council of the Arts, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and PNC Charities. Hiawatha’s latest work, My Traveling Song, sold out its first run in 2019, in which "both young children and their adult minders were captivated.” (Pittsburgh Tatler) The company is proud to present a reading of its newest work in development, In Our Time/ Stories from the Front Lines of the Medical Fields in partnership with the Pittsburgh Cultural and in accordance with the national TCG conference in June of 2022.

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