The Autry Museum and Greenway Arts Alliance Present the Native Voices National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of HAUNTED 

By Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) 

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Autry Museum and Greenway Arts Alliance proudly present the Native Voices NNPN Rolling World Premiere of HAUNTED, a bold new play by Tara Moses (Seminole/Mvskoke). Haunted is now playing through October 26, 2025 at The Greenway Court Theatre. This groundbreaking production is co-directed by Delanna Studi (Cherokee) and Jennifer Bobiwash (Mississauga First Nation), two visionary Native artists bringing fresh direction and spirit to the Los Angeles stage. 

What does it mean to haunt—and to be haunted? 

The play introduces us to Ash and Aaron—two Native siblings whose spirits remain bound to their place of death, years after their deaths. But this is no ordinary ghost story. With biting humor, blistering honesty, and Britney Spears on full blast, Haunted confronts the audience with an uncomfortable truth: some ghosts aren’t fiction. They’re the legacy of colonization, displacement, and broken promises. 

This production marks a significant moment in American theatre—a Native-led creative team centering Native stories, voices, and aesthetics in an urban space historically devoid of them. As part of a Rolling World Premiere supported by the National New Play Network, HAUNTED will travel across multiple theaters, but it finds a powerful and poignant home in Los Angeles this fall. 

Artistic Director, DeLanna Studi, says “Haunted is more than a ghost story—it’s a reclamation of space, history, and identity. Tara Moses’s play challenges us to confront the truths that linger in our communities while celebrating the resilience of Native people. At Native Voices, we believe that art is an act of sovereignty, and bringing this story to life with an entirely Native-led creative team and cast is both historic and deeply moving. We are thrilled to share this powerful work with Los Angeles audiences as part of the Rolling World Premiere.”

About Native Voices: 

Native Voices is the country’s only professional theatre company devoted to developing and producing new works by Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations playwrights. For over 31 years, Native Voices has been committed to creating a supportive space for Native storytelling and expanding the canon of American theatre to include Native perspectives. 

About the Playwright: 

Tara Moses is a citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Mvskoke, director, award-winning playwright, Artistic Director of telatúlsa, and co-Founder of Groundwater Arts. As a playwright, her completed works include Sections, He’eo’o (Winner of the 2019 Native Storytellers Contest), Quantum (2020 Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference), Bound (2019 Winner of the Native American New Play Festival), the adaptation of Hamlet: El Príncipe de Denmark, Don Juan, Arbeka, and Patchwork, a 10-minute play. She holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Tulsa and is expected to attend Brown University/Trinity Rep as an MFA Directing Candidate in 2021. www.taramoses.com 

About the Directors: 

DeLanna Studii is the Artistic Director of Native Voices and an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and has more than twenty-five years of experience as a performer, storyteller, educator, facilitator, advocate, and activist. Her theatre credits include the first national Broadway tour of the Tony Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning play August: Osage County; off-Broadway’s Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theatre); Informed Consent (the Duke on 42nd Street); and regional theatres (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Cornerstone, and Indiana Repertory Theatre). DeLanna originated roles in more than eighteen world premieres, including fourteen Native productions. A pivotal moment in her career was writing and performing And So We Walked: An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears, which retraced her family’s footsteps along the Trail of Tears with her father. And So We Walked has been produced throughout the country and was the first American play chosen for the Journées Théâtrales de Carthage in Tunisia, Africa. Last year, it made its off-Broadway debut at Minetta Lane, where it was recorded for Audible. In film and television, DeLanna stars in the Peabody Award–winning Edge of America, Hallmark’s Dreamkeeper, Goliath, Shameless, and General Hospital. She is a 2022 USA Fellow and a recipient of the Butcher Scholar Award, a MAP Fund Grant, a Cherokee Preservation Grant, and the Doris Duke Performing Artist Fund. Since 2007, she has served as chair of the SAG-AFTRA National Native Americans Committee.

Jennifer Bobiwash is the Artistic Associate at Native Voices and continues to create and perform work that amplifies Native Americans on stage and screen. She is an Ojibway actor, playwright, and director and is enrolled with the Mississauga First Nation. Selected regional credits include Between Two Knees at McCarter Theatre and Seattle Rep, Fake It Until You Make It at Arena Stage and Manahatta at Yale Rep. She has appeared in World Premieres of Fairly Traceable and Bingo Hall at Native Voices and Devilfish and Whalesong at Perseverance Theatre. On screen, she has appeared in Magnum P.I. and Rutherford Falls. She was part of the inaugural class at the National Institute for Direction and Ensemble Creation at Pangea World Theatre. Bobiwash was also a National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist and a Season 21 Volt Lab writer with Company One Theatre as well as an Artist in Residence at UC San Diego’s Thurgood Marshall College. She continues to explore stories of First Nations people and identity, as well as to inspire youth to realize their full potential through the performing arts, believing in performing as a way to promote conversation and elicit action. 

Meet the Cast 

GiGi Buddie is a Tongva and Mescalero Apache artivist originally from the Bay Area on Coast Miwok land. She is an Elliot Norton Award-nominated actress, most recently seen in the New England premiere of Where We Belong at The Umbrella Stage Company. This past June, GiGi earned second place at the Sparkfest’25 Acting Competition presented by Amphibian Stage. Outside of acting, she works with an environmental arts nonprofit where she helped bring frontline climate stories to the United Nations Climate Summit. In 2023, GiGi received her BA from Pomona College in theatre performance and environmental analysis. Previous credits include; Auntie 2 (Antíkoni, World Premiere with Native Voices); Anna (If Nobody Does Remarkable Things); Feste (Twelfth Night), Ruby (Daphne’s Dive); and Marty (Circle Mirror Transformation). 

James William Evans, Cherokee and Choctaw from Oklahoma, is an award-winning writer, director, and performer. He has worked with theaters all over the country, including Cherry Lane Theatre, the Playwrights Collective, Chashama, Open Fist Theatre Company, The Other Side, Boston Court Pasadena, Ohio Theatre, Blue Heron, HERE, and The New Mexico Repertory. He’s elated to work with Native Voices finally. James was recently a fellow at the Native American TV Writers’ Lab and has an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. 

Jen Olivares is a member of the Acjáchemen Nation (Juaneño Band of Mission Indians). They are an actor, director, choreographer, and commissioned playwright with Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles. Her recent acting credits include Off-Broadway: The Pirate La Dee Da (Atlantic Theatre Company); Regional: Between Two Knees, Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theatre), Oklahoma!, The Way the Mountain Moved, Off the Rails (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); National Tour: Rock of Ages, Where We Belong, Ajijaak on Turtle Island (Dir.); Television: Bull (CBS) and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime). 

Maddox Pennington is a Cherokee playwright and actor. He has worked with Native Voices as a performer (Antíkoni), a director, and a playwright. He is currently a member of the LA Writer’s Workshop and a commissioned playwright with Generation Now. In May, he performed in White 

Rabbit Red Rabbit at The Fountain Theater. His play, Central Standard Time (the second play in The Muldrow Cycle), was developed at the 2023 Native Voices Playwrights Retreat. His work has also been read in the 2023 T/GNC Reading Festival, Off-Off Broadway NYC’s FRIGID Queerly Festival, the Moving Arts MADLab, and the Creative Nations First Storytellers Festival. Maddox teaches writing at the University of Southern California, where he is currently an assistant professor. 

Kholan Studi is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. His select credits at Native Voices include the roles of Edward in Bingo Hall by Dillon Chitto, Anthony in Where the Summit Meets the Stars by Frank Kaash Katasse, Haemon in Antíkoni by Beth Piatote; Pale Face/William in Between Two Knees by The 1491s (Yale Repertory Theatre); Isaiah/Eddie (Seattle Rep); and Ensemble (Perelman Performing Arts Center). Kholan recently played Actor Four in The Other Children of the Sun by Rhianna Yazzie (TYA at the Kennedy Center). 

Brent Charles is an Oklahoma native from the Chickasaw Nation and a recipient of the Tim Disney Prize for Excellence in Storytelling, whose work spans the stage, screen, and voiceover. Brent’s recent stage credits include Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost, several roles in Dr. Faustus, Oliver in As You Like It, and Victor in Private Lives. His other recent films include Unicorn Diaries, The Love for the Game, All the Way to the Bank, and Killers of the Flower Moon, as well as voiceover roles in Echo and Ironheart. 

The Greenway Court Theatre (544 North Fairfax Avenue, LA 90036)

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