Mohegan theater artist Madeline Sayet believes that stories have power; they can do harm or they can heal. And her aim is to use story medicine: to serve people by sharing stories in ways that heal communities. Sayet is an award-winning director whose many honors include a TED Fellowship, an MIT Media Labs Directors Fellowship, and a White House Champion for Change Award. She is a playwright, a performer, and a director of new plays, classic work, and opera. First and foremost. Sayet is an advocate for and participant in Native theater, championing Native playwrights, directors, and performers. She grew up with traditional Mohegan stories and Shakespeare, and it’s this intersection that informs her current exhilarating and intimate one-woman show Where We Belong. Sayet both wrote and performs in the play, which is presented by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library and is streaming through July 11. Where We Belong is Sayet's journey examining her time living in London while working on a PhD in Shakespeare and becoming increasingly uncomfortable in a country that doesn’t recognize its colonial past. Yet, when she returns to the United States, to Mohegan in Connecticut where she lives, she’s finds it difficult to feel grounded again. In this podcast, Sayet talks about the impulse behind Where We Belong, the challenges of performing a one-woman show during the pandemic, the enormous growth in Native theater and the possibilities it offers, and the centrality and potency of story to her life.