Welcome to the world of Rhiana Yazzie, a Navajo playwright and author of audio theater, articles, plays for young audiences and other dramatic media.

This site is a place where Native American philosophy and theatre go supernova…!

* New News! *

7/9-25/10 ~ Ady begins its run!  Produced by Pangea World Theater, performed at the Minneapolis Playwrights’ Center.

7/1/10 ~ Rhiana has been named a Playwrights’ Center 2010-2011 Jerome Fellow!  This is the second time she won the award, the first was 2006-2007.

2/1-3/21 ~ La Jolla Playhouse production of Chile Pod tours to San Diego County schools!  The tour ends with four public performances March 20 & 21, 2010 at the La Jolla Playhouse.

10/09 ~ Check out the trailer for Rhiana’s new play Ady created by the Playwrights’ Center here.

6/09 ~ Rhiana is now a Playwrights’ Center Core Member and has also just been jointly commissioned by the Ashland Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater to write a play for American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle.