Native Voices Presents 27th Festival of New Plays

Tanis Parenteau (Métis Nation of Alberta) is an actor/producer. She holds an MFA in acting from the New School for Drama. TV credits include Billions ; FBI: Most Wanted ; Designated Survivor ; and House of Cards . Theatre credits include the Public Theater, Signature Theatre in NYC, 59E59 Theaters, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Parenteau does voiceover work and narrates audiobooks for Penguin Random House, Audible, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster. She is on the Red House Studios team developing a series titled Red House and has a podcast called Not Invisible: Native Women on the Frontlines , Kenny Ramos (Barona Band of Mission Indians/Kumeyaay Nation) grew up on the Barona Indian Reservation before moving to Los Angeles, where he earned a degree in American Indian studies from UCLA. He is an ensemble member at Cornerstone Theater Company; an artist-in-residence at La Jolla Playhouse; a current Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow; and the recipient of the First Peoples Fund’s Cultural Capital Fellowship, the Theatre Communications Group’s Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, & Transnational Migration’s

which she co-hosts. Parenteau is on the SAG-AFTRA National Native Americans Committee and is the tribal liaison at Alter Theater. www.tanisparenteau.com

2021 Mellon Arts Practitioner Fellowship. Acting credits include the world premiere productions of Larissa FastHorse’s Urban Rez and Native Nation (Cornerstone); Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Return to Niobrara (the Rose Theater Omaha); Vera Starbard’s Devilfish (Perseverance Theatre); and Dillon Chitto’s Bingo Hall (Native Voices at the Autry). He has also performed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center, and the Kennedy Center, and he recently received his first commission from Diversionary Theatre’s Rising Tide New Play Commissioning Program. Ramos is passionate about creating theatre that centers Native perspectives, asserts tribal sovereignty, and challenges settler colonial realities of American society. Kholan Studi (Cherokee) was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ever since he was a child, he has loved entertaining folks and making them laugh and feel. In 2012, Studi moved to Los Angeles to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he completed his studies in 2015. Since then, he has worked in many productions with Native Voices at the Autry, including The New Adventures of Super Indian by Arigon Starr, They Don’t Talk Back by Frank Henry Kaash Katasse, and Bingo Hall by Dillon Chitto. Studi was also honored to play Elias Boudinot in a production of Sovereignty by Mary Katherine Nagle at Marin Theatre Company in 2019. During the pandemic, he took part in Perseverance Theatre’s production of Spirit of the Valley by Frank Henry Kaash Katasse. He would like to send his love and support to all those who suffered from the COVID-19 pandemic. The only way out of this is together.