Ty Defoe is an Ojibwe and Oneida performance artist, activist, and writer living in New York.
[6] He works with indigenous populations such as the Alaska Native Heritage Center and the Hawaiian Playwrights Initiative, among others.
DeFoe has written, produced, and performed in many theatre productions, including Clouds are Pillows for the Moon, In the Cards, Heather Henson's Flight: A Crane’s Story, Tick, Tick, and Honor +Family.
Additionally, he collaborated on the Grammy Award-winning album, Come to Me Great Mystery, featuring the work of several Native American musicians.
Beginning in June 2018, he, with Kate Bornstein, portrayed stage versions of themselves as "interlocutors of indeterminate gender" in the Broadway premiere of Young Jean Lee's play Straight White Men.