Kendra Mylnechuk (Lummi) is an actor, theatre artist, teaching artist, director and producer. She currently lives in Missoula, MT. Her film performances have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, and other festivals around the world. Best actor in NBC/Universal Pictures Short Cuts Film Festival (2013). Her theatrical work in NY has been seen at Off and off off Broadway venues. She performed in a national tour as Shelby in Steel Magnolias with MT Rep, and has worked regionally in LA, OR, and Montana. She's worked as an actor with renown playwrights (including Samuel D. Hunter, William Yellowrobe, Jessica Goldberg, and James McLure) at the annual Missoula Colony, a conference and reading series. She recently helped develop a theatre program at N'Kwusm, a Salish language immersion school on the Blackfeet Reservation, created and implemented 2017 curriculum for elementary schools in Montana on Native American Studies utilizing theatre in education (TIE) techniques. In 2015, she co-founded MT+NYC Collaborative, a theatre company with producers rooted in both NY and MT. Ms. Mylnechuk is currently working on a documentary about her adoption, search for her biological mother, and her Native heritage.