DeLanna Studi

DeLanna Studi is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation with twenty-five years of experience as a performer, storyteller, playwright, and activist. Her theater credits include the First National Broadway Tour of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning play August: Osage County, Off-Broadway's Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theatre), Informed Consent (Duke Theater on 42nd Street), and performances in regional theater (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Cornerstone, and Indiana Repertory Theater). Her first play, And So We Walked: Along the Trail of Tears, retells her journey when she retraced her family's footsteps along the Trail of Tears with her father. And So We Walked has toured throughout the country and was the first American play chosen for the Journées Théâtrales in Tunisia, Africa. Recently, it made its Off-Broadway debut at Minetta Lane, where it was recorded for Audible. As a playwright, she has been commissioned by The Theatre Company, Theatre for One (New York and Chicago), and a new play for Period Piece. In film and television, DeLanna starred in the Peabody Award–winning Edge of America, Hallmark's Dreamkeeper, Goliath, Shameless, General Hospital, Reservation Dogs, and Disney's Launchpad series. She has served as a cultural liaison and the Artistic Director of Native Voices at the Autry, the only Equity Theater in the country developing and producing plays written by Native American playwrights. DeLanna is a 2022 United States Artists Fellow.