Embers Borne West

by Maddox K Pennington

Director Amber Kay Ball

First Storytellers Festival, Boulder CO 2024

Finding BigFooot

by Amber Kay Ball

Director Real Vargas Alanis

Fertile Grounds PDX New Play Festival, Barbies Vilage, Portland, OR. 2024

Tipi Tales From the Stoop

by Murielle Borst-Tarrant(Kuna/Rappahannock)

Director Amber Kay Ball

Reflections of Native Voices Festival 2022, New York Theatre Workshop

Dracula Spectacular!

by Dylan Thomas Elwood

Director and Teaching Artist Amber Kay Ball

Red Eagle Soaring Native Youth Theatre

ACT Theatre Seattle and Daybreak Star Culture Center

Tipi Tales From the Stoop

by Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna/Rappahannock)

Co Director Amber Kay Ball with Henu Josephine Tarrant

Short Film Adaptation

Reflections of Native Voices Festival 2021

Tipi Tales From The Stoop,
by Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna/Rappahannock)

This story is about my matriarch blood ties to the soil of our ancestral house on Degraw St. in Brooklyn, New York. This story is about my family’s triumph of will, intergenerational dysfunction & historical trauma through laughter. My personal recollection of the family’s foundation. Step into the storybook of one Tipi Tales of the city…” - Murielle Borst-Tarrant

New American Theatre Festival, 

Panel Series sponsored by HowlRound

Creative Producer and Curation by Amber Kay Ball

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The New American Theatre Festival
B Street Theatre and In the Margin come together to present the inaugural New American Theatre Festival (NATF). The NATF focuses on embracing intersectional new works as the default for the American Theatre canon by inspiring change, demanding proactive action in pursuit of justice, and welcoming a new renaissance.
— In the Margin

Decolonization Celebration,

Indigenous Variety Show!

Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland OR 2019

Creative Director and Producer

Event Coverage, Click Here

In downtown Ashland, the town known as a theater destination, costumes worn by native cast members were on display at the Black Swan Theatre. Inside a stark room the exhibit ranged from brightly patterned textiles to rawhide dresses. According to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Amber Ball, the display was meant to show the variety of native identity in theater.
— Jefferson Public Radio

Press and Appearances

Awards

  • Miller Foundation Spark Awardee, 2025

  • PICA PDX Precipie Fund Co-Awardee, 2024

  • Fertile Grounds PDX, Grow Grant Recipient. 2024

  • Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Indigenous Place Keeping Artist Fellowship. 2024

  • National New Play Network, Inaugural Bridge Program Cohort Member 2021

  • Community Mentor Award presented by Southern, Oregon University’s Native American Studies Department. 2020