Talya Kingston
Talya Kingston (Production Dramaturg) is a playwright, dramaturg and educator who is inspired by the live interactions between artists and audiences and how these can be a catalyst for social change. Selected WAM Theatre Credits: dramaturgy (What the Constitution Means to Me, Roe, Lady Randy), direction (Me & the Sky, The Thanksgiving Play, Paradise, Swallow), playwright (Port of Entry, Campus Unrest). Selected Dramaturgy Credits Elsewhere: Hartford Stage (Necessary Targets), New York Fringe Festival (Helmet), Ko Festival (Seriously.. What Did You Call Me? Written and performed by Onawumi Jean Moss), UMass, Amherst (Gum, Christmas Carol, Bovver Boys, The Last Five Years, Life is a Dream, Late Style) Playwriting: Port of Entry, Circling Suspicion (Plays In Place at Historic Northampton), Campus Unrest (finalist in the 2019 Bechtel Test Fest), Wave Goodbye (2020 PLAYground TYA Festival at NorthWestern University, semi- finalist for Provincetown Playhouse’s New Plays for Young Audiences), Sheryl Addresses the PGO (The New England Monologues Project), Wishing on Satellites, Anxiety Overdrive. Publications: Journal of American Drama and Theater, Scene Magazine, Theater Journal, The Moving Voice, European Stages, Howlround and The Valley Advocate. Selected training: MFA in dramaturgy, University of Massachusetts. Memberships/affiliations: proud member of the Northampton Playwrights Lab, the Play Incubation Collective, the Dramatists Guild and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.