Quick tip: Native Voices at Playhouse

Native Voices at the Autry opens its La Jolla Playhouse residency this weekend with Frank Henry Kaash Katasse’s new play "They Don't Talk Back," which traces what happens when a troubled teen is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote Alaskan fishing village.

Native Voices co-founder and producing artistic director Randy Reinholz directs the piece, which is being produced in association with Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre.

The cast features Jennifer Bobiwash (Ojibway) as Linda, Duane Minard (Yurok, Piaute) as Paul Sr., Kholan Studi (Cherokee) as Edward, Brian Pagaq Wescott (Athabascan, Yup’ik) as Tim, and Román Zaragoza (Pima) as Nick.

Native Voices also is poised to present its 18th annual Festival of New Plays, taking place first at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles (June 4-5), and subsequently at the Playhouse.

The lineup for the festival’s Playhouse run takes in “Fairly Traceable” by Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee), 7 p.m. June 7; “And So We Walked” by DeLanna Studi (Cherokee), 7 p.m. June 8; and “Bears and Black Sheep” by Jason Grasl (Blackfeet), 7 p.m. June 9.