Waylon Lenk is a Karuk theatre artist and educator whose family hails from the villages of Taxasufkára and Ka’tim’îin on the Klamath River in northwest California. His work exploring the intersections between Indigenous and Western performance styles has been seen from the Sycuan Band’s San Diego US. Grant Hotel to the Piggyback Fringe Festival on unceded Algonquin land in Wakefield, Quebec. He holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Stony Brook University.
Waylon Lenk