Tanya Everett hails from Mass, but grew to adulthood in Brooklyn. Her plays have been performed all over NY: including the Public, Cherry Lane, and HERE Arts Center.
Her work has seen many rounds of competitions, and most recently she was a 2019-20 Playwrights’ Realm Fellow. And The Gods Walk Among Us was named Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace Award and Finalist for the Lark Development Week. A Dead Black Man, was a Finalist for the Dramatist Guild Fellowship in 2019. She graduated in 2019 from Brooklyn College, under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney. She won the AAUW Career Development Grant, the Truman Capote Scholarship, & the 2018 MFA in Playwriting Awards to support her academic pursuits. She was named Alternate for the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in California. Her short play Thousand Miles, is nominated for a 2019 for a Drama League Award with the AFO Shorts Festival. She is working on several projects in development for Film & TV. Some of her teachers and mentors include: Stephen Adley Guirgis, Ellen McLaughlin, Maggie Flanigan, & Julia Jordan. She is represented by Tim Phillips & Jamie Kaye-Phillips of UTA, & Dan Halstead of Manage-ment.
She is grateful to her family, earth and chosen, for their dedication and love. A sweet rest to Linda, John, Ken, Nikki, Gloria, and Thelma. When she is neither acting nor writing, Tanya enjoys homemade food, live performances, working with youth, cuddling and communing with artistic spirits.
