Tanya Barfield is an American playwright whose works have been
presented both nationally and internationally.Barfield was raised in
Portland, Oregon and attended Metropolitan Learning Center. She
graduated from New York University and then attended the Juilliard
School Playwrights program, receiving an Artist Diploma. She taught
playwriting at Primary Stages School of Theater and Barnard College,
New York University and she served as the literary manager of the
Juilliard Drama Division from 2009â€"2014.Her plays include: Bright
Half Life, The Call, 121° West, Blue Door, Dent, The Houdini Act,
Medallion, Of Girl & Wolf and Wanting North, Pecan Tan and The Quick.
She authored a book for a children's musical entitled Civil War: The
First Black Regiment. She is also a solo performer, appearing in her
1996 one-woman show Without Skin or Breathlessness.Her play Blue Door
had its world premiere at the South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa,
California in May 2006. It was then produced at the Off-Broadway
Playwrights Horizons in September 2006 to October 2006, directed by
Leigh Silverman. The CurtainUp reviewer noted: "Barfield's play is
filled with words that spin into near poetic riffs and define the past
and the present philosophical and cultural attitudes of
African-Americans in a unique and refreshing way....The title refers
to a family memory and a tradition stemming from the days in the slave
quarters when the door was painted blue to "keep the bad spirits out
and the soul family in." It also was produced at the Seattle Repertory
Theatre in 2007, Berkeley Repertory and Harare International Festival
of the Arts, Zimbabwe (HIFA). Blue Door was developed at the Sundance
Institute Theatre Lab, Utah, in 2005.
presented both nationally and internationally.Barfield was raised in
Portland, Oregon and attended Metropolitan Learning Center. She
graduated from New York University and then attended the Juilliard
School Playwrights program, receiving an Artist Diploma. She taught
playwriting at Primary Stages School of Theater and Barnard College,
New York University and she served as the literary manager of the
Juilliard Drama Division from 2009â€"2014.Her plays include: Bright
Half Life, The Call, 121° West, Blue Door, Dent, The Houdini Act,
Medallion, Of Girl & Wolf and Wanting North, Pecan Tan and The Quick.
She authored a book for a children's musical entitled Civil War: The
First Black Regiment. She is also a solo performer, appearing in her
1996 one-woman show Without Skin or Breathlessness.Her play Blue Door
had its world premiere at the South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa,
California in May 2006. It was then produced at the Off-Broadway
Playwrights Horizons in September 2006 to October 2006, directed by
Leigh Silverman. The CurtainUp reviewer noted: "Barfield's play is
filled with words that spin into near poetic riffs and define the past
and the present philosophical and cultural attitudes of
African-Americans in a unique and refreshing way....The title refers
to a family memory and a tradition stemming from the days in the slave
quarters when the door was painted blue to "keep the bad spirits out
and the soul family in." It also was produced at the Seattle Repertory
Theatre in 2007, Berkeley Repertory and Harare International Festival
of the Arts, Zimbabwe (HIFA). Blue Door was developed at the Sundance
Institute Theatre Lab, Utah, in 2005.
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