Blue, a 35 year old, Navajo, singer-songwriter has lost her creative spark to a series of bad relationships and to the harsh Minneapolis winter.
But when she meets a younger guy, Eddie, a 25 year-old, Lakota, law school dropout, she feels like she’s regained her edge only to find it slip away from her again when she discovers Eddie’s love was never his to give in the first place.
A WINTER LOVE is modern day, inter-tribal, love story that shows true love is found in the season you love yourself.
Rhiana Yazzie
Rhiana Yazzie is a 2025 United States Artist Fellow. She is also a Lanford Wilson and Steinberg Award winning playwright, a director, and filmmaker. A Navajo Nation citizen (Ta’neeszahnii dóó Táchii’nii), she is the Artistic Director of New Native Theatre, which she started in 2009 as a response to the lack of connection and professional opportunities between Twin Cities theaters and the Native community and it is the recipient of a 2023 Headwaters Bush Prize for social justice. Rhiana has been a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow and was recognized with a Sally Ordway Award for Vision. She’s been a Playwrights’ Center Fellow multiple times and last year she made her East Coast premiere with Nancy (2023 Kilroys) at Mosaic Theater Company. Nancy is the second play in a series about Pocahontas and her family, originally co-commissioned by The Public Theater and The Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the American Revolutions: United States History Cycle. She is currently writing plays for Washington, DC’s Solas Nua & Ireland’s Fishamble theaters (co-commission), Long Wharf Theatre & Rattlestick Theater (co-commission), and the University of New Mexico. In 2023, she directed the US premiere of Missing at the Anchorage Opera and is now working on her first libretto, Little Ones. She wrote, produced, and directed her debut feature film A Winter Love, currently seen in mainstream and Indigenous film festivals globally. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Masters of Professional Writing where she produced events featuring Stephen Hawking, Herbie Hancock, and Spalding Gray. Rhiana wrote on AMC’s Dark Winds seasons 2 & 3 and is working on her second feature film.
Director:
Rhiana Yazzie
Writer:
Rhiana Yazzie
Producer:
A Winter Love Productions LLC
Talent:
Rhiana Yazzie, "Blue" |
Brian Watson, "Eddie" |
Chris, "Trapper" |
Ryan Eddleston, Director of Photography (Prevenge, Good Posture, The Fight, Black Mountain Poets) |
Farrah Drabu, Editor (Ill Manors, Zohra)
