Raised on a small farm in Southern Minnesota with nothing to do but play pretend, Sierra Rosetta (she/her) learned to translate imagination into stories from a young age. She is an Indigenous theater artist and scholar (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Nation) whose work focuses on Ojibwe stories, Indigenous archives, public humanities, dramaturgy, and decolonizing theatre.

Named one of Theatre Communication Group’s “Rising Leaders of Color” in 2024, Sierra wears many hats in her dramaturgy, playwriting, acting, and academic practices. As both a production and new-play dramaturg, she has worked with La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Northwestern University, Native Voices, Hedgepig Theatre Ensemble, and various individual sessions with playwrights. Her research and passions focus on incorporating Indigenous dramaturgy methodologies into theatrical practice. She is the founder of the dramaturgy mentorship program at Native Voices Theater in LA, where she also works as the Literary Associate and pairs emerging Native dramaturgs with career dramaturgs for one-on-one mentorship at Native Voices’ various festivals. Her literary work began at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in 2023, where she served as a Literary Fellow after winning the Kennedy Center American Collegiate Theatre Festival's national dramaturgy award. As a playwright, Sierra was the winner of Yale University’s Indigenous Performing Arts Program Young Native Playwright award in 2024 with her play “From the Old Wood Forest.” She was then accepted into a competitive writing residency at Storyknife Writers Retreat in Homer, Alaska, in 2024, where she finished her second play, “A Century of Sparrows.”

Sierra is also a PhD Candidate in Theatre and Drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Her research focuses on Indigenous resistance in assimilation performances of pageants and plays at Native American boarding schools. She spends her days reading, writing, and navigating archives, often presenting at conferences across the country, including, but not limited to, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, SIX Symposium, and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.

In her limited free time, Sierra enjoys reading, cooking, singing karaoke, “beaching,” and playing with her Holland Lop bunny, Siro.