Allison Hudson Hicks

I'm an actor, specializing in Native stories. My focus is on Native stories as I endeavor to portray our humanity, our diversity and our continued resilience in contemporary life, with humor and Native joy. I am an enrolled member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and am also of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. My television credits include Rutherford Falls (NBC/Peacock) and High Desert (Apple+TV). My theater credits include The Mvskoke Project directed by Tara Moses, Devilfish (world premiere) by Vera Starbard, Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Return to Niobrara, (world premiere) and Bingo Hall (world premiere) by Dillon Chitto. Other credits include Flying Bird’s Diary by Melissa Tantaquideon at the Long Wharf Theatre, numerous appearances at The Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program Play Festival, and also at The John F. Kennedy Center . I hold a B.A. in Dance from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine.