Talya is a playwright, dramaturg and educator based in Western Massachusetts, who is inspired by the live interactions between artists and audiences and how these can be a catalyst for social change. She is a producer and commissioned writer for Plays in Place, and an Artistic Advisory for the Play Incubation Collective. Her plays include: Circling Suspicion, Port of Entry, Campus Unrest (finalist in the 2019 Bechdel Test Fest), Wave Goodbye (2020 PLAYground TYA Festival, semi-finalist for Provincetown Playhouse’s New Plays for Young Audiences), Sheryl Addresses the PGO (The New England Monologue Project) and Wishing on Satellites. As a dramaturg, Talya has worked at WAM Theatre, Central Square Theater, Hartford Stage, New York Fringe Festival, New Conservatory Theatre Center and the Ko Festival. Talya has an MFA in dramaturgy and has taught at UMass, Hampshire College, and Capitol Community College. She is a proud member of the Northampton Playwrights Lab, the Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

British and Irish drama, feminist theatre practices, documentary drama, Staging history, Jewish theatre.

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