Tanya Barfield

Tanya Barfield’s plays include Of Equal Measure (Center Theatre Group), Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory, Berkeley Repertory and additional theaters), Dent, The Quick, The Houdini Act and 121º West. She wrote the book for the Theatreworks/USA children’s musical: Civil War: The First Black Regiment.  Tanya was a recipient of the 2003 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, 2005 Honorable Mention for the Kesselring Prize for Drama, a 2006 Lark Play Development/NYSCA grant, and she has been twice been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Primary Stages and Geva Theatre Center. She is a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild Council. (As of January 2013)

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• “CRITIC'S PICK. THOUGHTFUL AND ENGROSSING. Smart, natural, sparkling dialogue by Tanya Barfield, incisively directed by Leigh Silverman. Kerry Butler gives a nuanced and affecting performance. ”

  — Charles Isherwood, New York Times

• “TOUCHING, INTELLIGENT, TART and GROUNDED. Eisa Davis is simmering and sharp. Kelly AuCoin is innately charming. Russell G. Jones is wonderfully moving. Crystal A. Dickinson is fiercely funny. ”

  — Jennifer Farrar, Associated Press

• “RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES. A fine production. ”

  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Post