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How the ‘Reservation Dogs’ Writers Brought Signature Humor to Their First Play, ‘Between Two Knees’


Sterlin Harjo talks his new play 'Between Two Knees'

When Sterlin Harjo, the co-creator of “ Reservation Dogs,” started writing his first play with the other members of The 1491s, the sketch comedy troupe of which he was member, he and the group began working on the project in the same way they would have brainstormed one of their comic YouTube shorts: “The first day of working, we sat around and drew dicks on a dry-erase board for half the day,” he said. Harjo recalled the process in a conversation with Bobby Wilson, another one of the five members of The 1491s, during the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast. While the “Reservation Dogs” co-creator has a number of screen projects in the works, he wouldn’t mind writing another play.

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