Siena East is a Choctaw writer, comedian, and actress based in Los Angeles. As a writer she has worked on shows like HBOMAX’s upcoming Clone High. Siena was featured in llluminative's 25 comedians to follow, and ABC's Native American Heritage Month campaign where she spoke about the freedom to be flawed, but they cut the part about catching a barf with her hands. Or rather... failing to catch a barf with her hands. As a comedian, she has performed at the Hollywood Improv and all over LA as well as for the Association of American Indian Affairs and Good Medicine at the Oakland Museum.
Siena studied Film and Television Production at New York University where she was selected to produce her first short film. Her short film “Lycanphobic” was included in both the LA Skins Film Festival, where it was nominated in the Emerging Filmmaker category, and the NYU First Run Festival, where it won an award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2018, Siena was a part of the 3rd LA Skins Television Writers’ lab, a lab that works with Native American writers. Her original pilot “Mixed Up” was selected for a live reading at the LA Skins 12th Annual Film Festival. In 2019, she was in You're Welcome: A Pre-Thanksgiving All Native American Improv Show, the first all Native improv show at UCB. In 2020, she was a part of NAMA’s Native American Showrunner program where she was mentored by Owen Dennis.