Sayet’s work as a playwright has been produced at The Public Theater, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Goodman Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Portland Center Stage, Folger Theater, and more. She also writes scholarly and critical work about theatre, indigeneity, and performance.
Creative work
"Where We Belong"
Available from Methuen Drama (Bloomsbury 2022)
Available from Broadway Licensing/Dramatists Play Service (2024)
“What We Give Back”
A short play published as part of The Future is Not Fixed: Short Plays Envisioning a Global Green New Deal (Rowman & Littlefield)
”Blood on the Leaves”
Published as part of the Anthology of 2019 Climate Change Theatre Action Plays (The Arctic Cycle, 2020)
"Could You Love Me?"
A short play published as part of After Orlando Theater Action (NoPassport Press 2016)
Up and Down the River
Five radio plays, comissioned by Hartbeat Ensemble. The Up and Down struggles of Mohegan leaders from 17th-20th centuries, along the river we call home. (co-written with Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel)
"When the Whippoorwill Calls"
Short story published as part of Dawnland Voices: Writing from Indigenous New England (University of Nebraska Press 2014)
Articles
“Interrogating the Shakespeare System” - Howlround 2020
“America’s obsession with killing Indians hasn’t died” - High Country News 2019
“Decolonizing Theatre/La Descolonización del Teatro: an Introduction/Introducción” - Howlround 2018
“Native Women Rising” - American Theatre 2018
“Finding a Rock and Gaining an Audience” - Howlround 2017
“The Fellowship of the TED” - Howlround 2016
“What Sort of Bridge Will You Build?” - Howlround 2015
Book chapters
“Imagining Forward"
Published as part of The Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance (Bloomsbury 2020)
"The Shakespeare Problem"
A Conversation with Madeline Sayet, Dawn Monique Williams, Mei Ann Teo, and Sarah Enloe. Published as part of Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US (Routledge 2022)
Toward a Future Theatre: Conversations during a Pandemic
Available from Bloomsbury (December 2021)
"The Dreams We Make"
Published as part of Audience Revolutions: Dispatches from the Field (Theatre Communications Group 2016)
“You Ask Too Many Questions"
Published as part of Stages of Resistance (NoPassport Press 2018)