Madeline Sayet | 2021 Native Launchpad Artist

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Tribal Affiliation: Citizen of the Mohegan Tribe

Artistic Discipline: Theater

Hometown: Norwich, CT

Madeline Sayet is a citizen of the Mohegan Tribe, Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, and an Assistant Professor at ASU with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. For her work as a writer, director, and performer, she has been honored as a Forber 30 Under 30, TED Fellow, Native American 40 under 40, and recipient of the White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama.

Her play Where We Belong, first shown in London at Shakespeare's Globe is currently on tour produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in association with The Folger Shakespeare Library. Current tour stops include: The Goodman Theatre (Chicago), The Public Theater (New York), Seattle Rep, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Portland Center Stage. Where We Belong is now also published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama.

Her other plays include: Up and Down the River (HartBeat Ensemble) and Antigone or And Still She Must Rise Up (Butler University). Recent directing work includes: Tlingit Christmas Carol (Perseverance Theatre), Henry IV (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), Whale Song (Perseverance Theatre), As You Like It (Delaware Shakespeare), Poppea (Krannert Center), The Magic Flute (Glimmerglass), Miss Lead (59e59). Sayet also voiced Young Super Indian/Hubert Logan in the audio series of Arigon Starr’s The New Adventures of Super Indian from Native Voices at the Autry.