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Founders
Spiderwoman Theater was founded by sisters Muriel and Gloria Miguel and Lisa Mayo (born Elizabeth Miguel). They are of Kuna and Rappahannock ancestry and were born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. The sisters' mother and maternal grandmother also grew up in Brooklyn, but their father, a Kuna Indian, was a born in the San Blas Islands near Panama. According to Muriel, their father struggled to provide for his family via conventional means, and so the family would preform dances and snake oil shows for money. The three sisters were embarrassed by these performances and decided they would rather associate with more professional types of theater as opposed to being "spectacles of cliché."

Muriel Miguel taught theater at Band College. In addition to Spiderwoman Theater, she was a founding member of Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater.

Gloria Miguel went to Oberlin College. Gloria is the mother of Monique Mojica, another playwright and actress.

Lisa Mayo was trained as a mezzo-soprano at the New York School of Music. Mayo also studied dance and musical comedy.