An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears
Written and Performed by DELANNA STUDI
A frank, heartwarming and inspiring story of a contemporary Cherokee woman and her father who embark on a 900-mile journey along the Trail of Tears to understand her identity and the conflicts remaining for this nation and the Cherokee nation.
This live performance is a powerful, multi-faceted dramatic memoir that conveys the complexities and conflict with which the Cherokee wrestle.
DeLanna Studi’s (Cherokee) Off-Broadway Debut in Informed Consent, at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, which described her performance as “moving gravity”. She was a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she was one of only 10 Native people to have done so.
LEAD UNDERWRITING SPONSOR
THE SJ AND MILDRED WHALEN FOUNDATION
PATRICIA WHALEN HAWLEY
AND JOHN HAWLEY
LEAD IN-KIND SPONSOR
Jay Grodin Foundation
Indigenous Language Institute
Maura Dhu and Wes Studi
Jeffrey and Darlene Anderson
