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DeLanna Studi | 2018 AIP Fellow

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Tribal Affiliation: Cherokee

Artistic Discipline: Theatre

Winston-Salem, NC

DeLanna Studi (Cherokee) was in the first national Broadway tour of August Osage County, the NY Times Critic’s Pick Informed Consent and spent two seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her film and television credits include Edge of America, The Only Good Indian, Blessed, General Hospital, Z Nation, and Shameless. Her play And So We Walked based on retracing her family’s footsteps along the Trail of Tears with her father was produced at Triad Stage and Portland Center Stage. And So We Walked received the 2016 MAP Fund Grant, the Cherokee Preservation Foundation Grant and the Autry’s Butcher Scholar Award.