Executive Director Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, Forbes 30 Under 30, TED Fellow
Madeline Sayet (she/her) is a Mohegan director, writer, and performer who currently serves as clinical associate professor at Arizona State University with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), and the executive director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). For her work as a director, writer, and performer she has been honored as a Forbes 30 Under 30, TED Fellow, MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and a recipient of the White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama. A national tour of her play Where We Belong was recently produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with Folger Shakespeare Library.
