Sierra Rosetta

Sierra is motivated to bring a culturally grounded, research-driven approach to both new play development and production dramaturgy, with a focus on supporting Indigenous and BIPOC storytelling in theatrical spaces. Her work emphasizes community-centered process, reciprocal collaboration, and deep listening to the histories embedded in text and performance. Sierra has served as a dramaturg with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (The Matriarchs), La Jolla Playhouse (Indian Princesses), Goodman Theatre (Inherit the Wind), Native Voices (2024 Short Play Festival), and Northwestern University (As It Is In Heaven, The Wong Kids, Clean House, Frida Libre). She is passionate about nurturing stories that honor ancestral knowledge and expand the future of Indigenous theatre.

Sierra is the literary associate at Native Voices Theatre, the only equity theatre in the US that solely produces Native work. Her main focus is to foster an environment that values Indigenous voices and helps their stories reach broader audiences. Engaging collaboratively with playwrights, Sierra offers feedback, support, and resources for script development. Through careful curatorial work, she aims to dismantle barriers for Native stories in theatre. Sierra was trained in her literary work at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center summer fellowship.

Rosetta’s work explores themes of cultural memory, land, and intergenerational resilience, centering Native voices and women’s experiences in contemporary theatre. Her debut full-length play, From the Old Wood Forest, received the 2024 Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program’s “Young Native Playwright” award and was presented in sold-out staged readings at both Yale University and the Newberry Library in Chicago. Her second play, A Century of Sparrows, was developed through multiple national platforms, including readings at the Storyknife Writers Retreat in Alaska and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Los Angeles. It later received a workshop and staged reading with Native Voices at the Autry and La Jolla Playhouse in 2025. Rosetta’s earlier works include The Things That We Know and Remember, both staged at Northwestern College. Across her growing body of work, she is committed to expanding space for Indigenous narratives and writers on international stages.