Meet the Native family. Richard, our patriarch, is a cross dressing politician. His wife Azalea is best known as a big game hunter. Daughter Lulu likes to blow things up. Grandma has a big heart and an even bigger addiction to painkillers. Big brother Adam thinks he's a monkey. But it's the eldest child, Jewel, who has a secret that will shock this family.

Life Among the Natives was developed through a Scene Herd Uddered (SHU) workshop process in the Fall of 2007.

"The actors are all very funny and fill out their colorful roles with great gusto. The direction (by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer) is very clear, bold, and keeps everything moving swiftly....In fact, I both laughed and cried. I got a good gnawing guilt trip about keeping my parents at a distance. I tried to call my Grandmother on my way out of the theatre. I also got to hear some pretty unforgettable lines and got treated to some hilariously comic images. And in the end I took heart that as crazy as my own family seems at times, it still has nothing on the Natives." - nytheatre.com

"Like good wine, this play will leave a taste in your mouth you’ll remember for a long time to come. Erasing the many stereotypes behind stories of this type, it forces you to look at the people involved in the situation and not the situation itself." - ReviewFix.com