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Tanya Barfield's plays include: BLUE DOOR (Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory; Seattle Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, Harare International Festival of the Arts, Zimbabwe), DENT, THE QUICK, THE HOUDINI ACT and 121† WEST. She 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. Her new play, OF EQUAL MEASURE, will premiere at Center Theatre Group in 2008. She is a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists.
BLUE DOOR
Drama, 90 Minutes
2M (black; 50s, 20s)
Minimal Set
A successful black mathematician is visited by ancestors during a personal crisis. Two-character play spanning four generations from slavery to the present day. Men play a variety of roles; monologues and dialogue.
Productions: South Coast Rep; Playwrights Horizons (2006), Seattle Rep; Berkeley Rep (2007).Workshops: Sundance Theatre Lab; New York Stage & Film; the Lark Play Development Center.
THE QUICK
Drama, 90 Minutes
2M, 3W
Unit Set
A teenage girl's emotional problems are aggravated by her family's attempt to help.
Developed at New York Stage & Film.
121° WEST
Comedy/Drama, 110 Minutes
3M (1 Arab/Indian teen, 2 white), 3W (1 black teen, 2 white)
Unit Set
A woman arrives home to rural Oregon with her African-American daughter.
Developed at Seattle Repertory's Women's Playwright Festival.
DENT
Drama, 90 Minutes
5M (white), 3W (2 white, 1 black)
Minimal Unit Set
A woman arrives home to rural Oregon with her African-American daughter.
Read at Hartford Stage's New Voices Series.
"A provocative new play about the roots of violence and racism."--Connecticut Post
MEDALLION
Drama, 10 Minutes
1M (white), 1W (black)
Unit Set
A black laundry worker requests a medallion of honor for her slain brother during World War I.
Produced as part of the Women's Project's Antigone Project.