Native Voices Presents: The New Adventures of Super Indian

Sheri Foster Blake (Cherokee Nation), originally from Texas, has long been active in Los Angeles’s entertainment community. She provided narration for the Emmy-nominated PBS special Great Performances/ Dance in America , featuring the American Indian Dance Theater. As an actress, she appeared in the world premiere of Bill Yellow Robe’s

The Independence of Eddie Rose and numerous Los Angeles theatrical productions, including Death of a Miner . Blake toured with the Native American Theater Group’s presentation of Mystic Voices . Films include Oliver Stone’s U Turn , Naturally Native , Second-Hand Hearts , and Shouting Secrets . First Americans in the Arts honored Blake with a Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in U Turn . Television appearances include House , TNT’s Crazy Horse , and PBS’s Coyote Waits . Blake served on the board directors of the American Indian Registry, founded by Will Sampson, and was a founding trustee of First Americans in the Arts. Most recently, she appeared in Duplass Brothers Productions’ Allies , directed by Barret O’Brien, and Wild Indian directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. She is honored to be working with Native Voices at the Autry.

Jason Grasl (Blackfeet) is an actor, playwright, director, and ensemble

member at Native Voices at the Autry.

Theatre credits include Fairly Traceable , Native Voices; Laughter on the 23rd Floor , Garry Marshall Theatre; Cherokee , Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; The Blame of Love , Sliver of a Full Moon (touring); Urban Rez , (assistant director); and Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding . Film/ TV credits include Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 9-1-1 , White Collar , Hot in Cleveland , Cassidy Red , and The Seminarian . Playwright credits include Lying With Badgers , Emergency Management , and The Blame of Love . Currently, he is writing a commissioned play called The Normal Force for San Diego Rep.

Jake Hart (Cherokee/ Chicano) works across the country: onstage, onscreen, and in sound studios. He started off in the Bay Area in California, and then Seattle, before resettling in Manahatta. He voices everything from cartoons and video games to national commercials. Currently, he is recording Spirit Rangers (Netflix). He is a SAG-AFTRA Native Americans Committee member, the Indigenous development director of Nevada’s Cordillera International Film Festival, and a Red Eagle Soaring board member. Prayers up to his family for dealing with him.

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