Tasha Gordon-Solmon is a playwright, director and lyricist.
Her plays and musicals have been produced and developed at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Clubbed Thumb, Northern Stage, New Georges, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Zeiders American Dream Theater, The Playwrights Realm, Ars Nova, The Perry Mansfield New Works Festival, Dixon Place, INTAR, The Tank, The Flea and the 24-Hour Musicals. Tasha’s directing credits include EST, Dixon Place, The Tank, The Flea, INTAR, The Brick, Brooklyn Museum, Project Y, Pipeline, InViolet, Brooklyn Museum, HB Studios, Boomerang Theater, Fire This Time Festival, Columbia University and NYU Graduate Playwriting programs, ART-NY Theaters, and the Sound Bites Festival. Her writing has appeared in Dramatist Magazine, American Theatre Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and The Huffington Post and her plays are published by Playscripts and Smith and Krauss. Tasha received her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU and attended the National Theater Institute. She is a proud 52nd Street Project Volunteer.
AWARDS & AFFILIATIONS
Dramatist Guild Fellowship
Playwrights Realm Fellowship
Puffin Foundation Grant
New Georges Affiliated Artist
BMI Advanced Musical Theater Workshop
Directors Lab West
Ars Nova Playgroup
Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group
Project Y Playwrights Group
New Georges Jam
RESIDENCIES
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Bethany Arts Community
The Millay Colony
Barrington Stage Company
TEACHING
NYU Department of Dramatic Writing
NYU Playwrights Horizons Theater School
Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts
Curious New Voices Festival (Master Playwright)
New York Educational Theater Festival
Interlochen Arts Camp
LEAP Onstage
Girls Write Now