---
name: "Rhiana Yazzie"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rhiana-yazzie"
fi1m_id: "rhiana-yazzie"
imdb_id: "nm6290979"
tmdb_id: 1588915
wikidata_id: "Q52451388"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T22:54:55.132459+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Rhiana Yazzie

## Identity

Rhiana Yazzie

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rhiana-yazzie
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rhiana-yazzie
- **IMDb ID:** nm6290979
- **TMDB ID:** 1588915
- **Wikidata ID:** Q52451388
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhiana_Yazzie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52451388, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6290979/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1588915

Writer. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhiana_Yazzie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52451388, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6290979/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1588915

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dark Winds*](https://film.one/tv/dark-winds.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Rhiana Yazzie is a Navajo Nation citizen (Ta’neeszahnii dóó Táchii’nii), playwright, director, television writer and filmmaker. She founded New Native Theatre in Minneapolis in 2009 and serves as its artistic director. She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and holds a master’s degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California.

Yazzie has received the Lanford Wilson Award, Steinberg Award, Sally Ordway Award for Vision and a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship. Her plays include *Nancy* (2023 Kilroys List), which premiered on the East Coast at Mosaic Theater Company, and *The Other Children of the Sun*, which she wrote and directed for the Kennedy Center in 2025. She wrote, produced and directed the feature film *A Winter Love*.

She wrote on AMC’s *Dark Winds* for seasons 2 (2023) and 3 (2025), serving as staff writer and executive story editor. She is working on a second feature film, an adaptation of her play *Wounspaye Wankatya, A College Education*.

*Sources: rhianayazzie.com, newnativetheatre.com, directories.wga.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dark Winds* (2022), Fi1m 79, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/dark-winds.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dark Winds* (2022), series, Writer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/dark-winds.md)
- *A Winter Love* (2021), as Blue · Director, Writer
- *Good Posture* (2019), Production Coordinator
- *A Stray* (2016), Actor

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/rhiana-yazzie