DeLanna Studi (she/her/hers)

DeLanna Studi is a Cherokee actor/playwright whose TV credits include Dreamkeeper, Edge of America, Shameless, General Hospital, Z Nation, Goliath, Reservation Dogs, and Disney’s The Roof. Her theater credits include the First National Broadway Tour of August: Osage County, Off-Broadway’s Informed Consent, and Gloria: A Life. She retraced her family’s footsteps along the Trail of Tears with her father and wrote her play And So We Walked. Recently, it made its Off-Broadway debut at Minetta Lane, where it was recorded for Audible. She has created plays for Theatre for One, The Theatre Center, and Period Piece. She chairs SAG-AFTRA’s National Native Americans Committee. She is the Artistic Director of Native Voices at the Autry, the only Equity Theatre in the country developing and producing plays written by Native American playwrights. DeLanna is a 2022 United States Artists Fellow and an Advance Gender Equality’s Arts Legacy Playwright Grant Recipient.