Shyla Lefner

Shyla Lefner

Biography

Recent credits include Between Two Knees (PAC NYC, Yale Rep, McCarter, Seattle Rep, OSF); Bulrusher (McCarter & Berkeley Rep); The Cymbeline Project, Alice in Wonderland, Henry V, The Way the Mountain Moved and Manahatta (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Door You Never Saw Before (Geffen Playhouse); Fairly Traceable, Off the Rails, The Frybread Queen (Native Voices at the Autry). Readings and workshops: Sovereignty (TFNA); Wonderland (Dramatists Guild); (w)holeness (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Film/TV: credits include Whatever It Takes, Woo, Lies & Alibis, Fashion House.

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