谭雅巴菲尔德

谭雅巴菲尔德’s play 光明半衰期 has been seen at multiple theaters around the country since premiering at WP Theater Off-Broadway; it also received a Lambda Literary Award. 她玩 调用 premiered as a co-production between Playwrights Horizons 和 Primary Stages. It was the first play that Tanya wrote after an absence from theater in which she took time off to raise two children.

In 2016, the Profile Theatre devoted its entire season to Barfield’s work. Previously, Tanya's play, 蓝色的门, was produced by Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory 和 Berkeley Repertory.

她玩 同等的 was performed at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles 和 nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Other work includes: 闲谈，聊天 (New 戏剧tists’ Playtime Festival), 和 快速 (纽约舞台) & 电影). 短剧包括: 大奖章 (co-writer, Women’s Project/Antigone Project), 不公平的比赛 (Royal Court Theatre, Cultural Center of Brazil), 狼 和 希望北 (Guthrie Theatre Lab, named best 10-minute play of the year), 和 盛宴 (co-writer), which opened in London as a co-production between the Young Vic 和 Royal Court.

The recipient of a Lilly Award 和 the first inaugural Lilly Award Commission, a Helen Merrill Award, Honorable Mention for the Kesselring Prize for 戏剧, 和 a Lark Play Development/NYSCA grant. Barfield has twice been a finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She participated in the Lark Play Development Center’s delegation of artists to Romania 和 was part of the PBS documentary Legacy: Being Black in America, which was hosted by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American 历史 和 Culture. Her residencies include the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, the Ucross Foundation, New York Stage 和 Film, the Royal Court International Residency 和 Seattle Rep’s Women Playwrights Festival at Hedgebrook. She’s also an alumna of New 戏剧tists 和 the 戏剧tist Guild Council.

Before becoming a playwright, Tanya appeared in her solo show Without Skin or Breathlessness at the Public Theater’s New Work Now festival, Performance Space 122, 跳舞 Theatre Workshop, 和 the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris. 作为一名独唱演员, she received funding 和 recognition from the New York Foundation of the Arts 和 the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art. 除了, she was part of a performance collective, creating the devised multimedia theater pieces How to Get By 和 Be Easily Understood 和 闲庭信步, 在P处运行.S. 122 和 the Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis.

Barfield also writes for television (HBO, FX, Showtime) 和 shares a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on FX电视台第四季 美国人. A proud alumna of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, Tanya served as the Juilliard 戏剧 Division’s literary manager from 2009 until 2014.