Writer, Director, Actress, and definitely overthinking this.
Sabrina Saleha is a Diné (Navajo)/Bengali director, screenwriter and actress.
She is making her directorial debut with Legend of Fry-Roti: Rise of the Dough, a comedy about a biracial niece caught between her Navajo and Bengali aunties in a high-stakes birthday bread battle—Frybread vs. Roti—in search of dough-mestic harmony. Her film has been supported by the Vision Maker Media Creative Shorts Fellowship, the Georgia Film Impact Grant, and the First Peoples Fund Fellowship.
Sabrina is a 2025 SUNDANCE NATIVE LAB ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, developing her feature Grief Camp—a fantasy-adventure about a rebellious Navajo teen sent to a grief camp that turns out to be a bridge between the living and the dead. inspired by the loss of her younger brother and honors Native kids who’ve lost a sibling.
She is a 2024 graduate of the NYU Tisch Directing Intensive for Indigenous Voices, a 2023 imagineNATIVE Screenwriting Feature Lab fellow (Netflix), a 2023 Native American Animation Lab fellow (Sony Animation), and a 2022 Native American Media alliance TV Writer’s Lab fellow (LA SkinsFest).
She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in May 2023, receiving 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, Single Drunk Female, Station 19, the cleaning lady, Panhandle, and Echoes. She also starred as the lead in the theater production Diné Nishłį (I Am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play. Her voiceover work is featured in the PlayStation video game The Foglands.
