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Robert I. Mesa    

Indigenous Writer, Actor, Artist, and Photographer

Robert I. Mesa is an actor and writer, known for "Devon's Forrest" (2018), "Grey's Anatomy" (2005) and "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series" (2000).

Mesa studied filmmaking at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He had an exhibition at the Ningbo Museum of Art in Ningbo, China (2016), where he was an artist-in-residence. While there he completed Fort Defiance, a documentary that followed a creative exchange between Native American and Chinese traditions, viewpoints, and histories, instigating new cultural dialogue between distant peoples. As an actor, he recently traveled to New Zealand to play the esteemed role of Tecumseh in an upcoming mini-series titled Frontiersman (2017), executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.

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