Ida Aronson is a Two-Spirit citizen of the Houma Nation of Louisiana, founding Board President of Bvlbancha Public Access, a founding contributing member of the Bvlbancha Collective, the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Southeastern Indigenous gardening collective project, and the Nanih Bvlbancha monument collective, plus a contributing member of the Houma Language Project, Bvlbancha Liberation Radio, and a board member for Imagine Water Works. They are a multi-medium artist: from lighting design and event production for the stage and event realm, to visual arts and crafts such as basket weaving and drawing. They hold an AA in Liberal Arts at Cape Cod Community College, and a BA in Communications from Bridgewater State University. They were previously the Traditional Plant/Farm Initiative Manager and Founder for the UHN's Yakani Ekelanna Community Garden and Food Forest. They now do all the things, including stewarding Raccoon Oak Farm. rynufe.carrd.co
Jorden Charley-Whatley is a member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, a NYC-based director, and an associate member of SDC. Select directing credits include STUPID FUCKING BIRD (City Gate Productions) MY STORY IS GLUSKABE (Penobscot Theatre Company), BOTTLENOSE: A MODERN MYSTERY (The Gaze Presents). Focusing primarily on new works and adaptations, his work spans from New York to San Francisco, the midwest, and Ireland. He will be pursuing his M.F.A in Directing at the University of Alberta in the city of Edmonton, Canada. www.jordencw.com/
Madeline (Maddie) Easley is a New York–based Wyandotte writer and playwright. Her work tells epic stories to offer frameworks for living in decolonial futures. She is a 2025–2027 Venturous Playwriting Fellow at the Playwrights Center, in partnership with the Venturous Theater Fund and Soho Rep; a 2025 First Peoples Fund Performing Arts Fellow; a 2025 American Indian Community House (AICH) Governor’s Island Artist-in-Residence; and the inaugural Four Directions Playwright Fellow. Her plays and films have been presented at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Native Voices at the Autry, the American Indian Community House, REACH at the Kennedy Center, the TCL Chinese Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and elsewhere. Past residencies, fellowships, and writers’ groups include the New Harmony Project, Peacedale Global Arts, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellowship. Madeline is a graduate of the University of Evansville and a citizen of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. Her play Feast for the Dead will world-premiere Off-Broadway at Soho Rep in the 2026-2027 season. www.maddieeasley.com/
Daniel Leeman Smith is a proud hatukiklanna (two-spirit) citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a New York City–based director, playwright, and dramaturg whose work centers Native joy through new plays, adaptations, and ensemble-driven performance. A recipient of the 2025 Democracy Cycle commission at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, Daniel is currently developing Proclamation to the Great White Father and All His People, a documentary play about the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz, in collaboration with Blossom Johnson (Diné). Their directing and development work has been seen at PAC NYC, Playwrights Horizons, Perseverance Theatre, Native Voices, Center Theatre Group, the Playwrights’ Center, The Public Theater, Woolly Mammoth, Long Wharf Theatre, and others nationwide. Their play Perhaps the World Ends Here, a Choctaw sci-fi epic, was adapted for the stage during their residency at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Daniel teaches periodically at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Marymount Manhattan College and is a doctoral candidate at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where their research explores Indigenous approaches to equitable theatre-making. Professional affiliations include the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Dramatists Guild of America, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.
Bradley Lewis is New York City-based actor and an enrolled member of the the Acoma Pueblo. He’s been grateful to originate roles in new Native-written pieces in theatre spaces across the country. Recent credits include: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Off-Broadway Original Cast), Distant Thunder (Off-Broadway Original Cast), Audrey: A New Musical (Off-Broadway Original Cast), Aida (Metropolitan Opera), Pueblo Revolt at Santa Fe Playhouse (World Premiere Cast; Broadway World Award for Best Performer in a Play, New Mexico Entertainment Award Top Actor in a Play), Haunted (World Premiere Cast at Company One in Boston), Flying Bird’s Diary (Long Wharf Theatre), The Picher Project (Off-Broadway Original Cast), Ajijaak on Turtle Island (National Tour). New play readings (NYC): Sneaky (Roundabout Theater), Into Your Hands (Public Theater). Screen: Meet Cute in Manhattan (Amazon), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Resurrection (IFC Films). Dawa'eh! // Thank you! bradleylewisactor.co
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo is a Two-Spirit Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) writer, performer, and activist who has done her fair share of storytelling in different mediums, including television, books, and stage musicals. Recent credits include Rutherford Falls (Kim) and writing for TBS’ Miracle Workers, Netflix’s Spirit Rangers, Adult Swim’s Final Space, and Dungeons and Dragons Candlekeep Mysteries. Her musical, Starry, beside her co-writer Matt Dahan, is set to run on London’s West End in 2024-5. You can also catch her on various online platforms as a professional Dungeon Master for Dungeons & Dragons, Geek & Sundry, College Humor, Buzzfeed, and more. Awarded “Writer of The Year” at the 2019 LA Skin’s Fest Annual Gala and listed on BroadwayWorld as one of the “Top 100 Twitter Accounts to Follow in 2021,” Kelly is also a proud Selection Committee member for Outfest’s Screenwriter Lab as well as Mentor and Coach for Creative Lab Hawai’i’s Ideation Program for Indigenous Storytellers. kellylynnedangelo.com/
Tara Moses (she/her) is a citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Mvskoke, award-winning director, multi award-winning playwright, and co-Founder of Groundwater Arts. Her work has been seen coast to coast, and she is the first Native writer to win a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere for her play Haunted. She is the recipient of the Achievement in Artistic Excellence Award from CompanyOne Theatre (2025); on the Advisory Board of Broadway for Racial Justice; Cultural Capital Fellow with First Peoples Fund; the Native Storytellers winner with the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program; fellow with the Intercultural Leadership Institute; member of the Directors Lab at Lincoln Center; Senior Artistic Director Fellow, Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship at Arena Stage; recipient of the Thomas C. Fichandler Award; Management Fellow, Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship at Arena Stage; associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society; and Dramatists Guild member. She holds a M.F.A. in Directing from Brown University/Trinity Rep and holds a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Tulsa. She is from the Muscogee Creek Reservation and currently based on Narragansett Land or what is colonially known as Providence, RI. www.taramoses.com
Chingwe Padraig Sullivan (she/they/he/nákum) is a Northeast based two-spirit actor and activist (Shinnecock and Montaukett Nations). As an Indigenous artist raised in New England, she seeks projects that challenge the ways in which Indigenous peoples continue to be erased in the narratives told by colonial definitions of “place”. After studying for three years at the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Acting Program, she left due to tensions between the University and the program’s students of color. Since, she’s pursued work grounded in community, and has since been seen onstage across the country, including Rhode Island, Chicago, New York, and world premieres in Boston and San Francisco. Born to activists and justice-seekers, he’s been part of the organizing effort that has become the Native Theatre Movement since its seed was planted at the Safe Harbors NYC Reflections of Native Voices conference in 2023. www.chingwepadraigsullivan.com
Quita Sullivan (Montaukett/Shinnecock) (Nákum/They/She) is Senior Program Director for Theater at New England Foundation for the Arts where nákum directs the National Theater Project. They hold degrees in Theatre from Knox College and SUNY Stony Brook, as well as a Juris Doctorate from Wayne State University Law School. Before law school, nákum worked as a Stage Manager at ETA in Chicago and was the stage manager for ETA’s production of Checkmates directed by Woodie King, Jr. After law school, they practiced Environmental Justice law for 10 years in Detroit and Boston. Quita is a 2016 alum of the artEquity Facilitator Training. They are also a former Associated Grant Makers Diversity Fellow, the mission of which was to identify, recruit and cultivate emerging practitioners of color who represent the next generation of philanthropic leaders, offering them training, support and strong community. Quita is currently the chair of the Grantmakers in the Arts Board of Directors, a founding Steering Committee member of Western Arts Alliance’s Advancing Indigenous Performance program, and a frequent speaker on supporting Indigenous Artists and Racial Equity. Nákum continues to work to support equity at all levels of theater and grant making. Outside of work, they continue to develop their own artistic talents as a beadwork artist. Nákum is part of a group of community language researchers working to restore Long Island Algonquin to spoken language status. Quita has achieved the rank of Shodan (first degree) in Ueichi Ryu karate.
Becca Worthington is a NYC-based actor from Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a proud member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma with Choctaw ancestry. From Native Voices in Los Angeles to The Kennedy Center in D.C., Becca has worked coast-to-coast in both theatre and film. Selected credits: Hairspray at Four Corners Musical Theatre (Tracy), The Other Children of the Sun at The Kennedy Center (Actor 1&3 u/s), and the film Everything to Me by Kayci Lacob with the Cherokee Film Commission (Jess). Becca co-wrote and directed Channeling Our Ancestors by collaborating with Indigenous Oklahoman artists at the TPAC in for the Imagination Series. Represented by Resolute Artists Agency, NTA, and Reel Talent Studio. www.becca-worthington.com