DeLanna Studi

DeLanna Studi (Cherokee Nation) is an actor, writer, and Artistic Director of Native Voices. Her credits include the Broadway tour of August: Osage County, productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, and Geva Theatre. Her play And So We Walked, based on retracing her family’s Trail of Tears journey, premiered Off-Broadway and was recorded for Audible. Film/TV credits include Edge of America, Dreamkeeper, Goliath, Shameless, General Hospital, Reservation Dogs and Disney’s The Roof. She is a 2022 United States Artists Fellow, a 2023 AGE Legacy Playwright, Geva Theatre’s Resident Artist, and the first Native American finalist for the 2026 Susan Smith Blackburn Award. She is a current NNPN Board Member.

DeLanna Studi (Cherokee Nation) is an actor, writer, and Artistic Director of Native Voices. Her credits include the Broadway tour of August: Osage County, productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, and Geva Theatre. Her play And So We Walked, based on retracing her family’s Trail of Tears journey, premiered Off-Broadway and was recorded for Audible. Film/TV credits include Edge of America, Dreamkeeper, Goliath, Shameless, General Hospital, Reservation Dogs and Disney’s The Roof. She is a 2022 United States Artists Fellow, a 2023 AGE Legacy Playwright, Geva Theatre’s Resident Artist, and the first Native American finalist for the 2026 Susan Smith Blackburn Award. She is a current NNPN Board Member.

Scripts

I is for Invisible

by DeLanna Studi

Synopsis

“I is for Invisible" is a play about the missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic and one family’s journey searching for a missing loved one while navigating a system that is set against them.

“I is for Invisible" is a play about the missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic and one family’s journey searching for a missing loved one while navigating a system that is set against them.

Flight

by DeLanna Studi

Synopsis

A daughter turns to her father's wisdom to ease her fears and bring her back to her true warrior nature.

A daughter turns to her father's wisdom to ease her fears and bring her back to her true warrior nature.