Esther Almazán (Yoeme/Yaqui) is a Tucson Native who earned her MFA in dramatic writing from her home institution, Arizona State University. As a theatre artist, she has received the Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award for Distinguished Achievement, the ariZoni Theatre Awards of Excellence, is a Eugene O’Neill NPC semi-finalist, and a recipient of the Gammage Theatre Scholar Award. At University of Galway, Esther will conduct her research project, A Yaqui & Béaloidis: Yoeme and Irish in Conversation, exploring the mutual understanding of overcoming adversity between Native Irish and Native Americans. Her Fulbright performing arts project, presented at University of Galway’s O’Donoghue Theatre, will memorialize the Irish/Native American connection of generosity and mutual support in a devised theatre production incorporating family legends of surviving hardships through difficulties such as the COVID-19 pandemic, colonization, and mass migration.