Script Tag: dramedy

ORPHAN CHILD (UNADANIYADV DINIYOLI)

Set in the late 1980’s fresh off the establishment of the Indigenous Children’s Act, this live-action dramedy in the tone of I MAY DESTROY YOU and HAPPY unpacks foster care and abuse from the eyes of a 4-year-old half-Cherokee little girl, Nina (N-eye-nuh) Hensley, as she fights her way through a broken system accompanied by… Read more »

Life Without

The two biggest life-defining moments for me happened when I was 10: My mother died of cancer, and, afterward, my Camel-smoking, Vegas-slots-playing maternal Choctaw grandmother moved in to help my dad raise me and my younger siblings into adulthood. Granny both delighted and tortured me until her death at the age of 90. I write… Read more »