Liz Stephens

Liz Stephens is a Los Angeles-based enrolled member of the Choctaw tribe of Oklahoma. A performer in early versions of The Moth series, she’s now the author of memoir THE DAYS ARE GODS on University of Nebraska Press, and contributor to a number of anthologies. Her writing often examines themes of memory and identity, in… Read more »

Brian Young

Author and filmmaker, Brian Young is a graduate of both Yale University with a Bachelor’s in Film Studies and Columbia University with a Master’s in Creative Writing Fiction. An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, he grew up on the Navajo Reservation but now currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.  As an undergraduate, Brian won a… Read more »

Andrina Smith

Andrina Smith is a storyteller, writer, and performer who graduated from Emerson College with a theatre degree in a pre-Hamilton world. She knew if she wanted to see stories like hers, she’d have to write them. Growing up Shinnecock in the Hamptons (where her tribe is located), her work frequently explores identity, race, and the experience of 1%-adjacent life. She trained… Read more »

Diego Moreno

Diego (Pascua Yaqui) is a screenwriter from Tucson, Arizona. He received his BA in Film and Media Studies from Dartmouth College in 2018. His Native Horror script, My-A-Knee, won the Laing Memorial Screenplay Award in 2016. His most recent television project, Casino Coyote, is a sixty minute family crime drama set on an Indian reservation near the Arizona/Mexico border. Diego is… Read more »

Glenís Hunter

Glenís Hunter (Shinnecock) is a New York actress, writer and filmmaker based in LA. From a young age she discovered the performing arts as a way of self-expression. Growing up in the Dominican Republic and then moving back to New York in 2001, she got the opportunity to embrace her diverse multicultural (Black, Latinx and… Read more »

Alex Nystrom

Alex Nystrom is an Ojibwe writer, director and producer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. After sound-mixing indie films, he moved to New Orleans to pursue filmmaking full-time. He worked his way up the camera department on films such as TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT, LOGAN, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, 22 JUMP STREET, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, OUR… Read more »

Native American Actors Virtual Panel – Recap

A Panel Discussion about the Native American Actor Experience This Event Took Place March 22, 2021, 7:00 P.M. PST Outside the Box [Office], Our Voices, USC Visions & Voices, and LA SKINS FEST Present A Panel Discussion about the Native American Actor Experience Featuring MorningStar Angeline, Sheri Foster Blake, Kiowa Gordon, Martin Sensmeier and CARA… Read more »

Native American TV Writer Experience 

Outside the Box [Office], Our Voices, USC Visions & Voices, and LA SKINS FEST Present Native American TV Writer Experience  Featuring Shelley Dennis, Tom Hanada, William Jehu Garroutte, and Karissa Valencia RECAP The Native American TV Writers Experience was an incredible panel thanks to our partners, panelists and awesome moderator! Panelists discussed their background, writing… Read more »

Native American Youth Virtual Anime Workshop – Recap

The Native American Youth Anime Workshop was an incredible two day event that hosted youth from California, Colorado, Illinois, and New Mexico! The interactive and educational workshop opened with a guest speaker from a new indigenous anime series on Crunchyroll. The show’s executive producer joined the youth to discuss her path to drawing for animation… Read more »

6th Annual NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB Call for Applications – Closed

The 6th Annual NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB call for applications is now closed. This year’s lab is sponsored by A+E Networks, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Cherokee Nation Film Office, Kung Fu Monkey Productions and Snowpants Productions. The NATIVE AMERICAN TV WRITERS LAB is a five week intensive scriptwriters program that prepares Native Americans for writing… Read more »