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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 121 Degrees WEST. She wrote the book for the Theatreworks/USA children's musical: Civil War: The First Black Regiment. Ms. Barfield 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 serves on the membership committee at The Dramatist Guild.
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Tanya Barfield's THE CALL premiered at Playwrights Horizons in co-production with Primary Stages. Her play BLUE DOOR was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and AUDELCO Award and was seen at numerous theaters around the country. Her play OF EQUAL MEASURE played at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Short plays include: MEDALLION (Women’s Project/Antigone Project), FOUL PLAY (Royal Court Theatre, Cultural Center Bank of Brazil), THE WOLVES and WANTING NORTH (Guthrie Theatre Lab, published in: Best 10-Minute Plays of 2003). Tanya wrote the book for the Theatreworks/USA children’s musical, CIVIL WAR: THE FIRST BLACK REGIMENT which toured public schools around the country. Barfield has been a recipient of a 2013 Lilly Award and the first inaugural Lilly Award Commission, a 2003 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a 2005 Honorable Mention for the Kesselring Prize for Drama, a 2006 Lark Play Development/NYSCA grant and she has twice been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She is a proud alumna of New Dramatists and a member of The Dramatist Guild Council.
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