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 work has been developed or produced at The Public Theater, Native Voices at the Autry, and Pershing Square Signature Center, Labyrinth Theater Company, Thunderbird Theatre, The Eagle Project, New Native Theatre, The Flea, Missoula Writers’ Colony, Roundabout Theater’s Different Voices Program, and The 52nd Street Project. 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 Six Nations: One Fire for the Inaugural Democracy Cycle Commission for PAC NYC. In 2020, she won the NNPN's Smith Prize for Political Theater for Yuchewahkénh (Bitter), and she is co-producing Yuchewahkénh in 2027 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, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and PEN USA.