Tanya Shaffer

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Tanya Shaffer
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Born1966 (age 57–58)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation
  • Playwright
  • Author
  • Essayist

Tanya Shaffer (born 1966) is an American playwright, author, essayist and host of the podcast, Off-Leash Arts: Conversations on Creativity. She is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Berkeley, California. She is the author of the book Somebody's Heart is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa (Vintage, 2003), and the plays Miss America's Daughters, Brigadista, Let My Enemy Live Long!, Baby Taj, and The Fourth Messenger (a musical collaboration with Vienna Teng).[1][2] [3][4]She has also written for the Tony-Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe.[5] She is a former Playwright's Foundation resident playwright and a founding member, with Giovanni Rene Rodriguez, of Remote Theatre, an online theatre born of the pandemic. [6]

References

  1. "Tanya Shaffer | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
  2. "Playwrights Foundation | Interview with a Playwright: Tanya Shaffer". Retrieved 2023-09-15.
  3. "Baby Taj". Concord Theatricals. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
  4. Trevenon, Stacy (2013-02-18). "Bay Area Theater Review: THE FOURTH MESSENGER (Ashby Stage in Berkeley)". Stage and Cinema. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
  5. Rodriguez, Giovanni René. "How Stars Are Born? The SF Mime Troupe Shows Us How". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
  6. Wild, Stephi. "Tanya Shaffer Joins Pioneering Theater As First Resident Artist". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2023-09-15.

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