White Earth Nation

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Mixed Blood Theatre: Gloria, Red Ink, Autonomy; Pangea World Theater: Returning to Haifa, Sueño; History Theatre: Tales Along the Minnesota Trail; Native Voices at the Autry: The New Adventures of Super Indian; Park Square Theatre/Girl Friday Productions: The Skin of Our Teeth; Turtle Theater Collective: What Would Crazy Horse Do?, Our Town, This Way Yonder; Artistry: Noises Off; Children’s Theatre Company: Jackie and Me; Sidekick Theatre: Ripcord. THEATER DIRECTION Mixed Blood Theatre: 12x12. FILM/TELEVISION Downtown Owl, Sold Out, Nina of the Woods, Homemade, To Say Goodbye, The Jingle Dress, Thin Ice; “Atarax” (web series). AWARDS 2022 Warner Bros. Discovery Access Fellow. TRAINING M.F.A., University of Florida; B.A., University of St. Thomas. www.ernestbriggs.com

Cherokee Nation

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Urban Rez by Larissa FastHorse (world premiere), Wild Indian, God of Vengeance, Mädchen in Uniform; Tour: Mystic Voices (Native American Theater Group). FILM/TELEVISION Selected: Allies, Shouting Secrets, Oliver Stone’s U Turn, Naturally Native, Secondhand Hearts, Crazy Horse, Coyote Waits; “Rutherford Falls” (with Native writer/producer Sierra Teller Ornelas), “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix), “House” (Fox). VOICEOVER Narration for the Emmy-nominated “Great Performances” PBS special featuring American Indian Dance Theatre; Several characters in “Spirit Rangers” (Netflix). OTHER Board Member, American Indian Registry; Founding Trustee, First Americans in the Arts. AWARDS Emmy Award consideration (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”); First Americans in the Arts Award for Best Supporting Actress (U Turn) 

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Yellow Tree Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire; Mixed Blood Theatre: Hooded, Or Being Black for Dummies; University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program: The American Clock (Dowling Studio); Old Log Theatre: Charlotte's Web, Jack and the Beanstalk; Minnesota Centennial Showboat: Under the Gaslight. TRAINING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; British American Drama Academy. www.kendallkent.com 

Native Hawaiian and Blackfeet Descent

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Goodspeed Musicals; Arena Stage; Trinity Rep; Mark Taper Forum; Wilma; Ordway. FILM/TELEVISION Oscar-nominated The New World, Slow West (Sundance Grand Jury Prize); Emmy-winning “Into the West,” “Trickster,” “Jamestown,” “Fear the Walking Dead,” “Mad Men,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Saints & Strangers,” “Bones.” AWARDS Ancestor Eyes (writer/director) played at 40 festivals and won 14 awards; His musical Missing Peace is the recipient of the Native Voices Playwrights Retreat, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Johnny Mercer Writers Grove, NAMT Festival and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat’s Triple R. UPCOMING Writer/Composer: “When You Miss Aloha” (TV), Stored and Safe (film), The Mainlanders (musical). @kalaniqueypo (IG), www.kalaniqueypo.com 

Cherokee and Chickasaw Descent

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Native Voices at the Autry: Desert Stories for Lost Girls (world premiere); The A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre School (MXAT): Assistance, Our Town, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, The Seagull; A.C.T.: Riot (world premiere); A Guthrie Experience 2017: Incurable: A Fool’s Tale. FILM/TELEVISION 2021 Disney Television Discovers Talent Showcase. TRAINING M.F.A., Acting, Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre School (MXAT). www.katieanvilrich.com 

Cherokee Nation

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER More than 30 years in countless theater roles. FILM/TELEVISION Selected: Dances With Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans, Geronimo: An American Legend, Heat, Avatar, Hostiles, Mystery Men, A Love Song, Mending the Line, The Only Good Indian (producer); “Penny Dreadful” (SHOWTIME), “Reservation Dogs” (FX), Tony Hillerman mysteries on PBS. AWARDS First Native American actor to receive an Academy Award (2019); First Americans in the Arts Awards; Santa Fe International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award; Golden Boot Award. TRAINING Northeastern State University. www.wesleystudi.com 

Ho-Chunk Nation

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Guthrie Theater: Essential roles in A Christmas Carol (2022) and The Tempest; New Play Exchange at the Playwrights’ Center: K'é by Blossom Johnson 

Citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Turtle Theater Collective: This Way Yonder, Our Town; History Theatre: Say Their Names; Guthrie Theater: Stories From the Drum; Oyaté Hotanin: Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration; Raving Native Productions: Bring the Children Home; Bedlam Theatre: You Are My Sunshine; New Native Theatre: 2012: The Musical! FILM/TELEVISION An Opera Theatre: Mináǧi Kiŋ Dowáŋ: A Zitkála-Šá Opera. UPCOMING Continuing work with Mináǧi Kiŋ Dowáŋ: A Zitkála-Šá Opera as it moves from film to stage. @adrienne.zimiga (FB, IG)  

Citizen of Anishinaabe and Oneida Nations

GUTHRIE Water Is Sacred, Stories From the Drum. THEATER Interdisciplinary artist based in New York City; Selected works at The Momentary-Crystal Bridges, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall and Park Avenue Armory; Co-Founder of Indigenous Direction. PUBLICATIONS Routledge Press; Bloomsbury. AWARDS Grammy Award; Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and Jonathan Larson Award (for book and lyrics); Fellowships from Robert Rauschenberg, MacDowell, Sundance, First Peoples and The Kennedy Center’s Next 50. FILM/TELEVISION “Spirit Rangers,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix). TEACHING Professor, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University. TRAINING M.F.A.,Goddard College and NYU Tisch School of the Arts; B.F.A., CalArts. www.tydefoe.com, www.allmyrelations.earth 

Sicangu Lakota Nation

GUTHRIE Water Is Sacred, Stories From the Drum. THEATER The Thanksgiving Play, which made her the first known female Native American playwright on Broadway; Selected Plays: The Democracy Project, Peter Pan (national tour), What Would Crazy Horse Do?, Landless, Cow Pie Bingo, Average Family, Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: A Class Presentation; Numerous productions of The Thanksgiving Play, making it one of the most-produced plays in America; Trilogy with Michael John Garcés and Cornerstone Theater Company: Urban Rez, Native Nation and Wicoun; Co-Founder of Indigenous Direction. FILM/TELEVISION Creator for NBC, Disney Channel, DreamWorks, Muse, Netflix and others. TEACHING Arizona State University.  2020 MacArthur Fellow. www.hoganhorsestudio.com

GUTHRIE Wrestling Jerusalem, The Falls. THEATER Playwright, director and former Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles where he served for the past 17 years; Plays by Larissa FastHorse, including Urban Rez, Native Nation and Wicoun; Regional (selected): The Rivers Don’t Know (City Theatre); The Play You Want (The Road Theatre Company); The Royale (Arizona Theatre Company); The Just and the Blind (Carnegie Hall/The Kennedy Center); Epic (Great Plains Theatre Commons); What Happens Next (La Jolla Playhouse); The Arsonists (Woolly Mammoth); Executive Vice President for the SDC. AWARDS Doris Duke Artist Award; Princess Grace Statue Award; Alan Schneider Director Award 

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER International: Angels in America (Mexico premiere); Regional: King of the Yees (Signature Theatre); American Mariachi (Alley Theatre); The Heart Sellers (Milwaukee Rep); Stew (Pasadena Playhouse); Fefu and Her Friends, Poor Yella Rednecks (A.C.T.); We the Peoples Before (The Kennedy Center); Somewhere Over the Border (Syracuse Stage); Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (Marin Theatre Company); Justice, Private Lives (Arizona Theatre Company); The Heath (Merrimack Repertory Theatre). AWARDS Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award; Princess Grace Special Project Grant. OTHER Member, Wingspace Theatrical Design; Organizing Member, La Gente: The Latinx Theatre Production Network. TRAINING M.F.A., CalArts. @tanya-orellana (IG), www.tanyaorellana.com 

Pequot and Choctaw Descent

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Broadway: The Thanksgiving Play; Off-Broadway/New York: The Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit); On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages); 53% Of (Second Stage Uptown); Songs About Trains (Radical Evolution/Working Theater/New Ohio Theatre); Eureka Day (Colt Coeur); Ajijaak on Turtle Island (IBEX Puppetry/The New Victory Theater); Regional: The Wizard of Oz (Geva Theatre); Between Two Knees (OSF/Yale Repertory Theatre/McCarter Theatre Center/Seattle Rep); Espejos: Clean (Hartford Stage/Syracuse Stage); Lear (Cal Shakes); Kim’s Convenience (Westport Country Playhouse/TheatreSquared); Yoga Play, Ragtime (PlayMakers Repertory Company); I and You, Annapurna (Syracuse Stage). TRAINING M.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts. @luxhaac (IG), www.luxhaac.com

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATERBroadway: The Thanksgiving Play; Off-Broadway/New York: The Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit); On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages); 53% Of (Second Stage Uptown); Songs About Trains (Radical Evolution/Working Theater/New Ohio Theatre); Eureka Day (Colt Coeur); Ajijaak on Turtle Island (IBEX Puppetry/The New Victory Theater); Regional: The Wizard of Oz (Geva Theatre); Between Two Knees (OSF/Yale Repertory Theatre/McCarter Theatre Center/Seattle Rep);Espejos: Clean (Hartford Stage/Syracuse Stage); Lear (Cal Shakes); Kim’s Convenience (Westport Country Playhouse/TheatreSquared); Yoga Play, Ragtime (PlayMakers Repertory Company); I and You, Annapurna (Syracuse Stage). TRAINING M.F.A., NYUTisch School of the Arts. @luxhaac(IG),www.luxhaac.com

Citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Off-Broadway: Confederates (Signature Theatre); In the Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Theater); Regional: Dial M for Murder (Westport Country Playhouse); Trouble in Mind (Hartford Stage); Peter Pan and Wendy (KCRep); On the Far End, Jennifer Who Is Leaving (Round House Theatre); Jane Eyre (Geva Theatre); BAKKHAI (Baltimore Center Stage); Three Sisters (Two River Theater); Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theatre); Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Fisher Center; Court Theatre; Goodman Theatre; Steppenwolf; Northlight Theatre; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Member, USA 829. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. @emma.e.deane (IG), www.emmadeane.com 

GUTHRIE 25 productions since 1996. THEATER Over 300 productions; Children’s Theatre Company: Resident Music Director/Composer, 130 productions since 1989; Regional (selected): BAM; SITI Company; Playwrights Horizons; The Joyce Theater; The Acting Company; The New Victory Theater; South Coast Repertory; Mixed Blood Theatre; San Diego Rep; La Jolla Playhouse; Missouri Rep; Berkeley Rep; The Kennedy Center. INTERNATIONAL Productions in China, Japan, Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand and England. OTHER Original theme music on NPR; Numerous choral and orchestra compositions. AWARDS Two Drama-Logue Awards; Two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards; Three-time McKnight Fellow; Bush Fellow; Ivey Award. EDUCATION Master’s degree, Music Composition, University of California, San Diego. www.victorzupanc.com

GUTHRIE More than 80 productions since 1996, including The Importance of Being Earnest, Into the Woods, Hamlet, The Little Prince, A Christmas Carol, Sally & Tom, Sweat, The Tempest, Noura, Cyrano de Bergerac, As You Like It, Frankenstein – Playing With Fire, West Side Story, Familiar, Sunday in the Park With George, King Lear, The Lion in Winter, Disgraced, The 39 Steps, Peer Gynt, His Girl Friday and Sweeney Todd. THEATER Dramaturgy for The Acting Company (The Comedy of Errors, Henry V); University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Hammerstein Center; NYU Tisch School of the Arts; Augsburg University (Cymbeline directed by Darcey Engen). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). TRAINING M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Augsburg University

GUTHRIE For the People, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shane, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, Noura, The Great Leap. THEATER Theater Latté Da: Chicago, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Five Points, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Six Degrees of Separation, Peter and the Starcatcher, Ragtime, Lullaby, Sweeney Todd, All Is Calm; Jungle Theater: Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, Is Edward Snowden Single?, The Wickhams, Miss Bennet, Lone Star Spirits, Le Switch, Constellations; Penumbra Theatre: benevolence, Wedding Band; Minnesota Opera: The Fix. TRAINING Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; Viterbo University

GUTHRIE Over 20 productions, recently including Into the Woods, Murder on the Orient Express, Vietgone and Sweat. THEATER Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Pirates of Penzance; Minnesota Opera: Carmen; Park Square Theatre: Hamlet; Commonweal Theatre Company: Deathtrap, The Three Musketeers; Ballet Co. Laboratory: Carmen in the 1920s; Red Bird Theatre: A Bright Room Called Day, Buried Child, Time To Burn; Gremlin Theatre: Dial M for Murder; Theatre Pro Rata: The Illusion, Henry V; Lyric Arts: The Girl on the Train, Superior Donuts, Leading Ladies; Exposed Brick Theatre: Muyehpen; Theatre in the Round: The Three Musketeers; Old Log Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong. FILM/TELEVISION Stunt Coordinator: Bitcon, Profile of a Killer; Utility Stunts: Marmalade, Body Language, Christmas Break-In, Thin Ice. TRAINING Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; Society of American Fight Directors. www.fakefighting.com

GUTHRIE Stage Manager: Into the Woods, The Little Prince, Vietgone, Guys and Dolls; Assistant Stage Manager: A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Broadway: Fosse, The Best Man, Holiday; Off-Broadway: Head of Passes with Phylicia Rashad (The Public Theater); Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre for a New Audience); The Legend of Georgia McBride (MCC Theater); Gloria (Vineyard Theatre); Incident at Vichy, Big Love (Signature Theatre); Into the Woods, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare in the Park); Fiction, Talley’s Folly (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Shaggs, The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons); The Good Times Are Killing Me (Second Stage Theater/Minetta Lane Theatre); A Civil War Christmas (NYTW/Long Wharf Theatre); The Wolves (New York Stage and Film/The Playwrights Realm); Regional: Shout, Sister, Shout! (Ford’s Theatre); The Age of Innocence (Hartford Stage/McCarter Theatre Center); Sousatzka (Toronto); Joseph… (Ordway); Alley Theatre; Trinity Rep; KCRep. OPERA Minnesota Opera; Indianapolis Opera; Opera Memphis; New York City Opera (two seasons). TRAINING B.A./B.S., Bemidji State University

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Dallas Theater Center; Alliance Theatre; Hartford Stage; Children’s Theatre Company; Arena Stage; Triad Stage; Musical Theatre West; Circle Theatre; Casa Mañana Theatre; Theatre Arlington; Kids Who Care Performing Arts; Trinity Shakespeare Festival; Texas Shakespeare Festival; Second Thought Theatre; Proud AEA member. TRAINING M.F.A., Stage Management, University of California, Irvine. @dinosaur.stage.manager (IG), www.annabaranski.com 

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Lakhota, and Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Dakota

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Rap artist, producer and sound designer; Cornerstone Theater Company: Wicoun (written by Larissa FastHorse and directed by Michael John Garcés). MUSIC Soundscapes for the Oscar Howe exhibition at the University of South Dakota and the “RELATIVE” exhibition with Dyani White Hawk and Leya Hale at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Manager of Wicahpi Olowan Music Program/Recording Studio that provides free access at the Oglala Lakota Artspace in Kyle, South Dakota; Hip-Hop Albums: DOPA, WCWW. www.baztk.com 

GUTHRIE Artistic Team member since 2003; More than 70 productions, workshops and readings since 2015, including For the People, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shane, Into the Woods, Murder on the Orient Express, Hamlet, The Little Prince, Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Dickens’ Holiday Classic, Noura, Floyd’s, West Side Story, Familiar, Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens and Disgraced. FILM/TELEVISION Master Servant (Casting Consultant). TEACHING Audition master classes for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Other universities in MN and the U.S. TRAINING B.A., Theatre, MSU Moorhead

Enrolled Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Dakota/German Descent

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Director: Hands on a Hardbody, Be More Chill, High Fidelity (Minneapolis Musical Theatre); The Three Snow Bears (Stages Theatre Company/New Native Theatre); Men on Boats (University of Minnesota); Company (Lakeshore Players Theatre); Songs for a New World (St. Olaf College); Assistant Director: The Unplugging (New Native Theatre). OTHER Native Advisory Council Member (Guthrie Theater); Consulting Scholar: Women of the Fur Trade (Stratford Festival). TEACHING University of Minnesota, Morris; St. Olaf College. TRAINING Ph.D. Candidate, Theatre Historiography, University of Minnesota; M.F.A., Theatre, Minnesota State Mankato