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Tomi Endter
She/Her

Tomi Endter is a Nehithaw playwright and actor based in Manahatta.

TOMI ENDTER is a transgender nehithaw actor and playwright from the lands of the Suquamish on the Key Peninsula and Ho-Chunk land in Wisconsin, and a 2020 graduate of The New School of Drama.

Currently the resident writer at the Four Directions Native Writer Residency, her work has been seen at The Public Theater as a part of the Emerging Writer’s Group Spotlight Reading of Into Your Hands in May of 2025., Tomi has also been featured by the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program as one of the winners of the 7th annual competition in 2022 for her play Built on Bones

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Essay

All Together: Native Theatre in Fifty Years

21 November 2025

Playwright Tomi Endter imagines a future fifty years from now when American theatre has finally centered Native voices. She looks back at how the industry transformed from exclusion to the celebration of Native stories and artists.

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