Resume
Director. Playwright. Artistic Producer. Citizen Artist.
Photo by Juan Rebuffo
Affiliation
Associate Member, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
Member, Dramatists Guild
Education
M.F.A. Candidate in Directing
Brown University / Trinity Rep
B.A. Theatre Performance, Directing, and Stage Management; Musical Theatre Performance
University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Cum Laude
Director
Representatives for Those at Peace*
by Madeline Easley
Kansas City Repertory Theatre
2023
by Sam Shepard
Brown/Trinity Rep
Pickup Truck Opera: Volume 3 Romeo and Juliet
As We Are/As We Have Been*
Listen to Sipu
Cashed Out (World Premier)
by Vincenzo Bellini
Mixed Precipitation
by Drew Woodson
Eagle Project (NYC)
by Mwalim
New Repertory Theatre
by Claude Jackson, Jr.
San Francisco Playhouse
Listen to Sipu
by Mwalim
New Repertory Theatre
Billie*
by Tara Moses
Groundwater Arts + First Peoples Fund
Arbeka*
Snag*
by Tara Moses
Groundwater Arts + First Peoples Fund
by Tara Moses
Groundwater Arts + First Peoples Fund
Othello (World Premier)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
by William Shakespeare, adapted by Tara Moses
South Dakota Shakespeare Festival
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask
Book by John Cameron Mitchell
Brown/Trinity Rep
Becoming Muhammad Ali: The Musical
various
Manton Avenue Project
mtlk terr*
The Thanksgiving Play*
by Seayoung Yim
Brown/Trinity Rep
by Larissa FastHorse
Princeton University
Killer Whale and the Black Rush*
by Dylan Thomas Elwood
Red Eagle Soaring + ACT Theatre
The Past, Present, and Future
devised
Red Eagle Soaring
Menil and Her Heart*
by Isabella Madrigal
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program
Queen Cleopatra and Princess Pocahontas*
by Rhiana Yazzie
Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective (NYC)
Don Juan (World Premier)
Three Sisters*
The True Story of Pocahontas (World Premier)
Bound (World Premier)
by Tara Moses
telatulsa
by Carolyn Dunn
Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company
by Kara Morrison
by Tara Moses
Serenbe Playhouse
Amerinda (NYC)
Hamlet: El Principe de Denmark (World Premier)
by William Shakespeare, adapted by Tara Moses
telatulsa
Oklahoma Value
Oklahoma Bombing
by Tara Moses
#BingeTheatreCompany
by Lucy Wang
#BingeTheatreCompany
The Moon is My Neighbor (World Premier)
by Shadia Dahal
Heller Theatre Company
He'eo'o*
The Prisoner
Colored Water*
Events in Row K, or The Other (World Premier)
Shelter*
Our Orlando*
by Tara Moses
#BingeTheatreCompany
by Seamus Lucason
by Cynthia Veal Holm
Echo Theatre Company
Echo Theatre Company
by Kelley Friedberg
Echo Theatre Company
by Lauren Redmond
Arena Stage
by Freddy Mancilla
Arena Stage
Medusa's Tale
Commedia Rapunzel
Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
Stories of Our Land
by Carol Lashoff
The University of Tulsa
by Lane Riosley
San Miguel Middle School
by William Shakespeare
Brooker T. Washington High School
by William Shakespeare
Brooker T. Washington High School
various
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
2023
2023
2023
2023
2022
2022
2022
2022
2022
2022
2022
2021
2021
2021
2021
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
2018
2018
2018
2018
2017
2017
2017
2016
2016
2015
2014
2014
2014
2023
True West
2013
Assistant Director
Moby Dick
Snow Child*
The Pirates of Penzance Jr.
dir. David Caitlin
Arena Stage
dir. Molly Smith
Arena Stage
dir. Machele Miller Dill
Carver Middle School
2016
2016
2014
Digital Theatre
Court Cafe by Dillon Christopher Chitto
As it Has Always Been by Kinsale Drake
Handling Verbs by Reed Bobroff
OklaHOME by Tara Moses
Homeward by Drew Woodson
Count Yourself Among the Lucky
by Alicia Margarito Olivo
Water Song by Oogie Push
Who We Are Molded From Clay
by Kalea Catherine Salvador
The Longhouse Pagent by Ty Defoe
Your Friend, Jay Silverheels by Drew Woodson
Fraction of Love by Reed Bobroff
The Longhouse Pagent by Ty Defoe
Bingo Hall by Dillon Christopher Chitto
On the Wings of a Mariposa by Alvaro Saar Rios
Never Be Afraid by Jaisey Bates
Post-Pre-Continued Contemporary Colonial Genocide by Mary Kathryn Nagle
Choreomania!
Music and Lyrics by Josh Kight
Book by Annette Storckman
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program
Company One Theatre
San Francisco Playhouse
Spectrum Theatre Ensemble
Director
Director
Groundwater Arts
Red Eagle Soaring
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
American Indian Community House (NYC)
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program
telatulsa
American Indian Community House (NYC)
American Indian Community House (NYC)
telatulsa
Say Their Names Honor Roll
Arena Stage
Director
Self-Produced
2022
2022
2022
2022
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2020
2020
2020
2020
2020
2020
Short Plays on Decolonization by Annalisa Dias
Site Specific Dramaturgy
by Tara Moses and Freddy Mancilla
Director and Sound Designer
Director
Groundwater Arts
#BingeTheatreCompany
2020
2018
Playwright - Full Length Plays
Sections
Fringe Production, dir. Zach Rice
Reading, dir. Rebecca Ungerman
Furnace Fringe Festival
Echo Theatre Company
2017
2017
He'eo'o
Workshop, dir. Jocelyn Clarke
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program
2019
Quantum
Workshop Production, dir. Nicole Limón
Reading, dir. Maddie Easley
Reading, dir. Julie Beckman
Reading, dir. Ed Bourgeois
Reading, dir. Jake Hart
Selections: Indigenous, dir. Amanda Levie
Reading and Residency, dir. Elizabeth Francis
Reading, dir. Everett Ray George
Matriarchy Theatre +Teatro Espejo
Primary Stages (Off-Broadway)
Sound Theatre
Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective (NYC)
American Indian Community House (NYC)
No Peeking Theatre
Native Voices at the Autry
Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company
2022
2022
2020
2020
2020
2020
2019
2019
Bound
Equity Showcase Production, dir. Tara Moses
Reading, dir. Sarah D'Angelo
Amerinda (NYC)
Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company
2019
2019
Hamlet: El Principe de Denmark
Reading, dir. Tamanya M.M. Garza
Production, dir. Tara Moses
Delaware Shakespeare
telatulsa
2022
2018
Don Juan
Production, dir. Tara Moses
telatulsa
2019
Arbeka
Reading, dir. Tara Moses
Reading, dir. Jacob Patterson
Selections: Indigenous, dir. Amanda Levie
Workshop, dir. Madeline Sayet
Groundwater Arts + First Peoples Fund
telatulsa
No Peeking Theatre
First Peoples Fund
2022
2021
2020
2020
Snag
Reading, dir. Tara Moses
Groundwater Arts + First Peoples Fund
AlterTheatre Ensemble
2022
2021-2022
Residency
Billie
Reading, dir. Tara Moses
Workshop, dramaturg Naysan Mojgani
Groundwater Arts + First Peoples Fund
Groundwater Arts + Kennedy Center REACH
2022
2022
Sugar
Reading
Reading, dir. Kateri Cale
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Kitchen Dog Theater
2022
2021
This is the New World
Music by Marisa Carr
Workshop + Reading, dir. Maddie Easley
Workshop Presentation, dir. Sophia Skiles
Red Eagle Soaring + First Peoples Fund
Brown/Trinity Rep
2023
2022
Artistic Leadership
Artistic Director
Co-Founder
Co-Producing Artistic Director
Convening Producer
Producing Artistic Director
Affiliated Artist
Red Eagle Soaring
Seattle, WA
Groundwater Arts
National
#BingeTheatreCompany
First Nations Performing Arts
telatulsa
Unsettling Dramaturgy - Literary Managers and
Dramaturgs of the Americas
Washington, D.C.
U.S. and Canada
Tulsa, OK
U.S. and Canada
2021 - 2023
2018 - present
2016 - present
2021 - 2022
2019 - 2021
2018 - 2022
Founding Member
10 Names of Note
National
2018 - 2020
Performer
This is the New World
by Tara Moses
Music by Marisa Carr
Solo Show
Workshop + Reading
Red Eagle Soaring + First Peoples Fund
dir. Maddie Easley
2023
Workshop Presentation
Brown/Trinity Rep
dir. Sophia Skiles
2022
Quantum by Tara Moses
Tamara/Ramona
Reading
Primary Stages (Off-Broadway)
dir. Maddie Easley
2022
OklaHOME by Tara Moses
Hokte
Digital Presentation
Company One Theatre
dir. Tara Moses
2022
Warrior's Blood by Joseph Valdez
Angie
Reading
The Vagrancy
dir. Elizabeth Francis
2021
The Bone Picker by Carolyn Dunn
Liliana Rodriguez
Reading
Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company
dir. Sarah D'Angelo
2018
Neechie-Itas by Jo MacDonald
Maggie Dunning
Reading
Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company
dir. Candice Byrd
2018
Teaching
Guest Lecturer Native American Theatre & Dramaturgy NYU Tisch 2023
Guest Lecturer Native American Theatre & Dramaturgy Marymount Manhattan College 2023
Lead Teaching Artist Native Theatre (youth) AlterTheatre Ensemble 2022
Teaching Assistant Native American Theatre: Traditional Brown University 2022
Prof: Murielle Borst-Tarrant Storytelling to the Modern Theatre Movement
Lead Teaching Artist Native Theatre Southern Oregon University 2021
Lead Teaching Artist Native Theatre (youth) AlterTheatre Ensemble 2021
Teaching Artist Decolonizing Playwriting (6-week course) Momentum Stage 2021
Teaching Artist Playwrighting Momentum Stage 2021
Teaching Artist Social Justice and Theatre AlterTheatre Ensemble 2021
Teaching Artist Introduction to Playwriting (youth) Red Eagle Soaring 2021
Teaching Artist Playwriting Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program 2020
Guest Lecturer Native Theatre and Scenic Design University of Arkansas 2020
Teaching Artist Directing Culturally Specific Work telatúlsa 2019-20
Teaching Artist Creative Drama (youth) Imagination Stage 2017
Teaching Artist Greek Theatre (youth) Imagination Stage 2016
Theatre Program Coordinator, Theatre Performance (youth) San Miguel Middle School of Tulsa 2014-2015
Lead Teaching Artist
Guest Teaching Artist Musical Theatre (youth) Owasso High School 2014
Guest Teaching Artist Shakespeare and First Folio (youth) Union High School 2014
Guest Teaching Artist Shakespeare (youth) Brooker T. Washington High School 2014
Publications
Moses, Tara. “Hamlet: El Príncipe de Denmark.” The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1. Edited by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos, Edition 1, ACMRS Press, 2023.
Dias, Annalisa; Lathrop, Anna; Moses, Tara; Penoi, Ronee. “What Is Theatre Invested In? A Vision for a Regenerative Future.” American Theatre Magazine, 15 March 2021.
Moses, Tara. “Thanksgiving is full of myths. Here’s how to acknowledge Native peoples’ realities.” The Lily by The Washington Post, 26 November 2020.
Moses, Tara. “A step toward justice: The pandemic is opening the theatre to BIPOC audiences.” Fortune Magazine, 20 June 2020.
Moses, Tara. “I Imagine a Just Theatre.” The Flashpaper: Theatre’s Thoughts on Right Now, Issue 1 . Edited by Mark Blankenship, Edition 1, Lulu, 2020.
Awards & Distinctions
Celebration Theatre IndigQueer Identity Award Committee Member (2022); Advisory Board Member, Broadway for Racial Justice; Barbara Whitman Award Finalist (2021); Participant, New York Stage and Film’s inaugural NYSAF NEXUS project (2021); Finalist, Eugene O’Neil Playwright’s Conference for Quantum (2020 and 2021); First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellow (2020); Invited Playwright, HBMG Foundation National Winter Playwrights Retreat (2020); Winner of the Yale Young Storytellers Contest (2019); TCG Conference Committee on Climate Member (2019); SDC Observership Class (2018/19); Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow (2018/19); DirectorsLabChicago (2018); Berkshire Leadership Summit Attendee (2017); Directors Lab: Lincoln Center (2017); Allen Lee Hughes Senior Artistic Director Fellow (2016/17); Allen Lee Hughes Management Fellow (2015/16); Thomas C. Fichandler Award (2016); Chair’s Award for Excellence over an Undergraduate Career (2015); Excellence in Stage Management (2014); Excellence in Theatre (2013).
Special Skills
Theatre for Youth; Programming: Magic Q/EOS, iMovie, Beamwright; Shakespeare First Folio; Acting Training; Singing Training; Dance Training; Can Read Music; Grant Writing; Conversational Spanish (14 years of formal instruction); Conversational Mvskoke; Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion training; Valid OK Driver’s License; Valid US Passport; Citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; Celebrity Impressions
For reference information or to request a PDF copy of Tara's resume, please visit the contact page.
*Workshop and/or Reading