Resume
Director. Playwright. Artistic Producer. Citizen Artist.
Photo by Cynthia Cunningham
Affiliation
Affiliation
Associate Member, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
Member, Dramatists Guild
Education
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
Director
The Thanksgiving Play** | by Larissa FastHorse | Princeton University | upcoming |
Killer Whale and the Black Rush** | by Dylan Thomas Elwood | ACT Theatre and Red Eagle Soaring | 2021 |
The Past, Present, and Future | devised | Red Eagle Soaring | 2021 |
Menil and Her Heart** | by Isabella Madrigal | Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program | 2020 |
Queen Cleopatre and Princess Pocahontas** | by Rhiana Yazzie | Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective (NYC) | 2020 |
Don Juan | by Tara Moses | telatúlsa | 2019 |
Three Sisters** | by Carolyn Dunn | Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company | 2019 |
The True Story of Pocahontas | By Kara Morrison | Serenbe Playhouse | 2019 |
Bound | by Tara Moses | AMERINDA, Inc (NYC) | 2019 |
Hamlet: El Príncipe de Denmark | Adaptation by Tara Moses | telatúlsa | 2018 |
Oklahoma Value | by Tara Moses | #BingeTheatreCompany | 2018 |
Oklahoma Bombing | by Lucy Wang | #BingeTheatreCompany | 2018 |
The Moon is My Neighbor | by Shadia Dahal | Heller Theatre Company | 2018 |
He'eo'e** | by Tara Moses | #BingeTheatreCompany | 2018 |
Us/Them | by Machele Miller Dill | Echo Theatre Company | 2017 |
The Prisoner** | by Seamus Lucason | Echo Theatre Company | 2017 |
Colored Water** | by Cynthia Veal Holm | Echo Theatre Company | 2017 |
Events in Row K** | by Kelley Friedberg | Echo Theatre Company | 2017 |
Shelter* | by Lauren Jane Redmond | Arena Stage | 2016 |
Our Orlando* | By Freddy Mancilla | Arena Stage | 2016 |
Broadway Through the Ages | devised | Imagination Stage | 2016 |
Greek Tragedies | devised | Imagination Stage | 2016 |
Medusa's Tale | by Carol Lashoff | University of Tulsa | 2015 |
Commedia Rapunzel | by Lane Riosley | San Miguel Middle School | 2015 |
Midsummer Night's Dream | by William Shakespeare | Brooker T. Washington High School | 2014 |
Othello | by William Shakespeare | Brooker T. Washington High School | 2014 |
Stories of Our Land | various | Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma | 2013 |
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Moby Dick | dir. David Catlin | Arena Stage | 2016 |
Snow Child** | dir. Molly Smith | Arena Stage | 2016 |
The Pirates of Penzance Jr. | dir. Machele Miller Dill | Carver Middle School | 2014 |
Digital Theatre
Digital Theatre
Homeward by Drew Woodson | Director | San Francisco Playhouse | upcoming |
Count Yourself Among the Lucky by Alicia Margarito Olivo | Director | Spectrum Theatre Ensemble | 2021 |
Water Song by Oogie Push | Director | Groundwater Arts | 2021 |
Who We Are Molded From Clay by Kalea Catherine Salvador | Director | Red Eagle Soaring | 2021 |
The Longhouse Pageant by Ty Defoe | Director | American Indian Community House | 2021 |
Your Friend, Jay Silverheels by Drew Woodson | Director | Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program | 2021 |
Fraction of Love by Reed Bobroff | Director | telatúlsa | 2021 |
The Longhouse Pageant by Ty Defoe Bingo Hall by Dillon Christopher Chitto | Director Director | American Indian Community House American Indian Community House | 2020 2020 |
On the Wings of a Mariposa by Alvaro Saar Rios | Director | telatúlsa | 2020 |
Never Be Afraid by Jaisey Bates | Director | Say Their Names Honor Roll | 2020 |
Post-Pre-Continued Contemporary Colonial Germocide by Mary Kathryn Nagle | Director | Arena Stage | 2020 |
Choreomania! Music and Lyrics by Josh Kight Book by Annette Storckman | Director | Self-Produced | 2020 |
Short Plays on Colonization by Annalisa Dias | Director and Sound Mixer | Groundwater Arts | 2020 |
Site Specific Dramaturgy by Tara Moses & Freddy Mancilla | Director | #BingeTheatreCompany | 2018 |
Playwright
Playwright
Sections | Residency Fringe Production dir. Zack Rice Reading dir. Rebecca Ungerman | #BingeTheatreCompany Furnace Fringe Festival Echo Theatre Company | 2017 - 2018 2017 2017 |
He'eo'e | Residency Workshop dir. Jocelyn Clarke | #BingeTheatreCompany Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program | 2017 - 2018 2019 |
Quantum | Selections, Indigenous dir. Amanda Levie Playwright's Retreat & Reading dir. Elizabeth Frances Reading dir. Everett Ray George Reading dir. Julie Beckman Reading dir. Ed Bourgeois Reading dir. Jake Hart Selections, Indigenous dir. Amanda Levie | No Peeking Theatre
Native Voices at the Autry
Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company
Sound Theatre Company
Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective (NYC) American Indian Community House (NYC) No Peeking Theatre | 2018
2019
2019
2020
2020 2020 2020 |
Bound | Residency Equity Showcase dir. Tara Moses Reading dir. Sarah d'Angelo | #BingeTheatreCompany AMERINDA, Inc (NYC) Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company | 2018 2019 2019
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Hamlet: El Príncipe de Denmark adaptation | dir. Tara Moses | telatúlsa | 2018 |
Don Juan | dir. Tara Moses | telatúlsa | 2019 |
Arbeka | Reading dir. Jacob Patterson Workshop dir. Madeline Sayet Selections, Indigenous dir. Amanda Levie Reading dir. Madeline Sayet | telatúlsa Support by First Peoples Fund No Peeking Theatre Native Voices at the Autry | 2020 2020 2020 2021 |
Patchwork | Reading dir. Jen Olivares | Native Voices at the Autry | 2020 |
Artistic Leadership & Producer
Artistic Leadership & Producer
Convening Producer | First Nations Performing Arts | trans-national | 2021 - present |
co-Artistic Director in Residence | Red Eagle Soaring | Seattle, WA | 2021 - present |
Founding Member | 10 Names of Note | International | 2019 - present |
Co-Founder | Groundwater Arts | trans-national | 2018 - present |
co-Founder and Executive Producer | #BINGE | Washington, D.C. | 2016 - present |
Co-Producing Artistic Director | telatúlsa | Tulsa, OK | 2019 - 2021 |
Producer of New Play Series* | Arena Stage | Washington, D.C. | 2016 |
Producer of 25th Anniversary of the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship | Arena Stage | Washington, D.C. | 2015 - 2016 |
Producer of Native American Heritage Month Festivities and Pow-Wow | Cherokee Nation and the University of Tulsa | Tulsa, OK | 2013 - 2015 |
Classes, Talks, & Panel Discussions
Classes, Talks, & Panel Discussions
Climate Justice Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series | Guest Speaker | Drexel University | 2021 |
Native Theatre Workshop | Teaching Artist | Konaway Nika Tillicum + Southern Oregon University | 2021 |
Native Theatre Camp | Lead Teaching Artist | AlterTheatre Ensemble | 2021 |
"Visual Sovereignty" | Panelist and Commissioned Artist | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | 2021 |
"Climate Action and Environmental Justice" | co-Producer with Groundwater Arts and Panelist | TCG | 2021 |
Reunion Conversation | Panelist | Momentum Stage | 2021 |
Decolonize Playwriting - 6 week class | Teaching Artist | Momentum Stage | 2021 |
"Decolonizing Shakespeare" | Panelist | Delaware Shakespeare | 2021 |
Playwriting Workshop | Teaching Artist | Momentum Stage | 2021 |
Social Justice Theatre Workshop | Teaching Artist | AlterTheatre Ensemble | 2021 |
"No More 10 out of 12's - Impact on the BIPOC Community" | Panelist | USITT | 2021 |
Intro to Playwriting Workshop | Teaching Artist | Red Eagle Soaring | 2021 |
"Decolonize This: A Conference on Decolonizing Educational Spaces" | Keynote Speaker + Annalisa Dias | Broadway for Racial Justice | 2021 |
"Just and Thriving Governance: From the Roots" | Fall Forum Opening Plenary Session Panelist | TCG | 2020 |
"Undoing Settler Colonialism" | Workshop Presenter | AATE Leaders of Color Institute | 2020 |
"Correspondence Cocktail Hour" | Panelist | HERE Arts Center | 2020 |
"EDI Symposium: Centering Indigeneity in the American Theatre" | Panelist | Yale School of Drama + Yale Repertory Theatre | 2020 |
"Mobilizing Sovereign Movements: Native Treaties, Artistic Interventions, and Electoral Power" | Panelist | Tulsa Artist Fellowship + American Indian Community House | 2020 |
"Nothing Stays the Same" : Indigenous Perspectives on Arts and Sustainability | Panelist | Arts Midwest + Western Arts Alliance Conference | 2020 |
"Playwrights and Directors Discuss Virtual Theatre" | Panelist | Momentum Stage | 2020 |
Playwriting Class | Teaching Artist | Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program | 2020 |
"Decolonizing New Play Development" | Panelist | Bay Area Playwrights Festival | 2020 |
"Towards Climate Justice: An introduction to Green New Theatre" | Featured Speaker with Groundwater Arts | Pigfoot Theatre (UK) | 2020 |
"Creating Change" | Panelist | Momentum Stage | 2020 |
“Stories, Sovereignty, and Imagining Forward” | Panelist | Arts Council Greater New Haven | 2020 |
"MLK and Climate Justice: A Path Forward" | Keynote Speaker + Groundwater Arts | Bard College | 2020 |
Playwriting Discussion | Featured Panelist | Oklahoma Central University | 2019 |
Intercultural Theatre Alliance Directing Class | Lead Teaching Artist | telatúlsa | 2019 - 2020 |
Creative Drama: Star Wars (12 weeks) | Teaching Artist | Imagination Stage | 2016 - 2017 |
Legends of the Greeks (6 weeks) | Teaching Artist | Imagination Stage | 2016 |
After School Theatre Program | Coordinator and Teaching Artist | San Miguel School of Tulsa | 2014 - 2015 |
Musical Theatre: Auditions | Assistant Teaching Artist | Owasso High School | 2015 |
Shakespeare First Folio | Assistant Teaching Artist | Union High School | 2013 |
Theatre
Theatre
Dramaturg | Molly | Penobscot Theatre Company | 2020 - 2021 |
Dramaturg | Molly | Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program | 2020 |
Dramaturg | Carousel | Arena Stage | 2016 |
Dramaturg | Three Laws of Physics* | Arena Stage | 2016 |
Make-Up Artist | Manifesto on the Ledge | Rhymes with Opera of NYC | 2015 |
Production Manager | Manifesto on the Ledge | Rhymes with Opera of NYC | 2015 |
Lighting Designer | The Color Purple in concert | Spinning Plates Productions | 2015 |
Stage Manager | The Pirates of Penzance | Ohio Light Opera | 2014 |
Asst. Stage Manager | 36th Festival Season | Ohio Light Opera | 2014 |
Deviser and Performer | Fuck Polite | The New Theatre of Dublin | 2014 |
Stage Manager | Altar Boyz | University of Tulsa | 2014 |
Sound Designer | 34 Charing Cross Road | Spinning Plates Productions | 2013 |
Stage-Production Manager | Narrow View? Try a Broadway! | Spinning Plates Productions | 2013 |
Asst. Stage Manager | Much Ado About Nothing | Shakespeare in the Park | 2013 |
Related Experience
Related Experience
Committee Member | Dia de Los Muertos Celebration | Tulsa, Oklahoma | 2018 - 2020 |
Committee Member | Theatre for Youth | Southeastern Theatre Conference | 2015 - 2019 |
Distinctions & Awards
Distinctions & Awards
Advisory Board Member, Broadway for Racial Justice (2021 - present)
Barbara Whitman Award Finalist (2021)
Participant, New York Stage and Film’s inaugural NYSAF NEXUS project (2021)
Finalist (Quantum) National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Center (2020)
Cultural Capital Fellow, First Peoples Fund (2020)
Invited Playwright, HBMG Foundation’s National Winter Playwrights Retreat (2020)
Affiliated Artist, Unsettling Dramaturgy: Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (2018 - present)
TCG Committee on Climate Member (2019)
SPACE at Ryder Farm Residency, Groundwater Arts (2019)
Winner of the Young Storytellers Contest: Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (2019)
Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership Class (2018/19)
Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow (2018/19)
DirectorsLabChicago (2018)
Directors Lab: Lincoln Center (2017)
Berkshire Leadership Summit Attendee (2017)
Allen Lee Hughes Senior Artistic Director Fellow: Arena Stage (2016/17)
Allen Lee Hughes Management Fellow: Arena Stage (2015/16)
Thomas C. Fichandler Award: Arena Stage (2016)
Chair's Award for Excellence over an Undergraduate Career
Excellence Award in Stage Management
Excellence Award in Theatre
Special Skills
Special Skills
First Folio; Theatre for Youth; Microsoft Office Suite; Programming: Magic Q/EOS, iMovie; Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Google Analytics; Stage Makeup; Beamwright; Hang and Focus; Scenic Painting; Fabric Dyeing; Training and Experience in Performance, Musical Theatre Performance, Dance, Design, Stage Management; Can Read Music; Valid OK Driver's License; Passport; Peoples First Language; Conversational Spanish (14 years of formal instruction); Citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; Mvskoke; Celebrity Impressions
For reference information or to request a PDF copy of Tara's resume, please visit the contact page.
For reference information or to request a PDF copy of Tara's resume, please visit the contact page.
**Workshop and/or Reading