Hope & Hudson
www.lilyhudson.com

Lily Hudson (www.lilyhudson.com) was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska. Lily's Tlingit name is Wooshkindein Da.aat. She is Raven from the T'akdeintaan (black-legged kittywake) clan, of the Snail House. As a Perseverance Theatre Company Actor and award-winning storyteller in Alaska, she performs annually nationwide. Lily is a multimedia artist, and teacher. She a gratuate of University of Alaska Southeast and San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater Summer Training.

Ishmael Hope (Inupiaq/Tlingit) is the son of the late Elizabeth Freda Hope from the Goodwin family in Kotzebue, Alaska, and Andrew Hope III from Sitka, Alaska, a Tlingit of the Siknax.adi clan. His Inupiaq name is Analook and his Tlingit name is Kaa Kwaask'. He has experience as a storyteller all over
Alaska and the United States. He is currently the Director of Outreach at Perseverance Theatre. He started and directed the annual festival of Beyond Heritage, a celebration of contemporary and traditional Alaska Native
culture, now heading into its ninth year. He took his play, GUNAKADEIT, to the Smithsonian Museum for the American Indian in Washington, D.C.. He co-wrote, with PJ Paparelli, RAVEN ODYSSEY, based on Raven stories from across Alaska. Recently, he published a comic book entitled STRONG MAN, based on a Tlingit legend (www.alaskaice.org), and in March 2008, he opened his play, BROTHER, about a modern American family. Upcoming projects include
RAVEN AT THE HEAD OF THE NASS, a play for Perseverance Theatre’s summer theatre youth program, and LOUIS SHOTRIDGE, based on the early 20th century Tlingit leader and artifact collector, for Casper College in Wyoming.

Their new addition to their repetoire of talents is their daughter Elizabeth Deanna Hope.