“My work centers on grief, healing, and Native resilience, and Tulsa feels intrinsically connected to those themes. Oklahoma holds profound histories of relocation, boarding schools, and survival, and I’m interested in how art can help us reclaim and transform that legacy. I believe Tulsa will shape my practice by grounding my work in memory and collective healing.”
SCREENWRITING, FILM
SABRINA SALEHA (NAVAJO/BENGALI)
Sabrina Saleha is a Navajo/Bengali screenwriter and director, and currently a Staff Writer on AMC’s Dark Winds. She is a Tulsa Artist Fellow developing her debut feature, Grief Camp, which she has workshopped as a Sundance Native Lab Artist-in-Residence.
Her most recent short film, Legend of Fry-Roti: Rise of the Dough, won the Audience Award for Best Short at deadCenter Film Festival, the Best New Mexico Short Jury Award at the Santa Fe International Film Festival, and Achievement in Acting at LA Skins Fest, and has screened at festivals worldwide.
Sabrina is an alum of the NYU Tisch Directing Intensive for Indigenous Voices and has participated in several prestigious development programs, including the Stowe Story Labs x New Mexico Film Office Fellowship, the imagineNATIVE Screenwriting Feature Lab (Netflix), the Vision Maker Media Creative Shorts Fellowship, the First Peoples Fund Artist-in-Business Fellowship, the Native American Animation Lab (Sony Animation), and the Native American Media Alliance TV Writers Lab (Netflix).
She earned her MFA in Screenwriting from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), where she received scholarships from Warner Bros. Discovery, the American Indian Circle Fellowship, and the Navajo Nation.
As an actress, her recent credits include Barry, Marvel’s Echo, The English Teacher, Single Drunk Female, Station 19, The Cleaning Lady, Panhandle, and Damascus.
