Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is a playwright, director, and co-founder of the Chukalokoi Native Theater Ensemble alongside Cochise Anderson, Irene Bedard, and Steve Elm. In 2009, she became the first Indigenous playwright to join the Emerging Writer's Group at New York's Public Theater. Vickie was also part of the Inaugural Indigenous Writer's Collective at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Her works have been showcased at renowned venues such as The Public Theater, Native Voices at the Autry, and Pershing Square Signature Center. She received honorable mentions from Kilroy's for Standoff at Hwy#37 in 2015 and Pure Native in 2019. Pure Native was also a semi-finalist at The Eugene O'Neill Center's National Playwright's Conference in 2018 and the Bay Area's Playwright's Conference in 2019.
Vickie's current commissions include The Ally Project for Seattle Rep and Apple for Alter Theater. In 2020, she won the NNPN's Smith Prize for Political Theater for Yuchewahkénh (Bitter), and she is co-producing Yuchewahkénh in 2025 with Pia Wilson and Mona Mansour as part of Pool Plays 4.0. Most recently, her play, Pure Native, made its East Coast premiere at Geva Theatre.
As an educator, Vickie played a crucial role in developing Alter Theater’s Arts Learning Project and has guest lectured at the University of Rochester. She has also directed for the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Project, The American Indian Community House at Carnegie Hall, and Amerinda at Theater For A New City.
Partnering with TDEP Productions, Vickie wrote and directed Glen Reige 20 WP. She is currently adapting Standoff at Hwy#37 into a feature film and Pure Native as a TV series with TDEP. Vickie also consulted on Amazon's Outer Range.
Her work appears in various publications, including Monologues for Actors of Color: Women, Monologues for Actors of Color Men, Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, TRW's Short Plays, and Broadway Publishing's Smoke.
Vickie is a member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN USA.