Tanya Everett

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. Writing plays that make some sense of all the madness that is the human experience, especially exploring the experience of love and loss.

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, and the 2018 MFA in...

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. Writing plays that make some sense of all the madness that is the human experience, especially exploring the experience of love and loss.

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, and the 2018 MFA in Playwriting Awards to support her academic pursuits. . She was named an 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 and TV. Some of her teachers and mentors include: Stephen Adley Guirgis, Ellen McLaughlin, Maggie Flanigan, and Julia Jordan. She is represented by Tim Phillips and Jamie Kaye-Phillips of UTA, and Dan Halsted 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 and Thelma.

When she is neither acting nor writing, Tanya enjoys homemade food, live performances, working with youth, cuddling and communing with artistic spirits.

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Scripts

Anthracite: A Shadow Play

by Tanya Everett

Cast Size
8—12
Genre
drama,
political,
science fiction

Synopsis: This exists at the end of civilization as we know it, and the sun's rays have
been diminishing. Many have left, in pursuit of dwelling on another planet, which they
call the "Anthracite." It boasts of a utopian existence the likes of which we have never
seen. Will they be able to cobble together a new existence??

Synopsis: This exists at the end of civilization as we know it, and the sun's rays have
been diminishing. Many have left, in pursuit of dwelling on another planet, which they
call the "Anthracite." It boasts of a utopian existence the likes of which we have never
seen. Will they be able to cobble together a new existence??

Dead Black Man

by Tanya Everett

Cast Size
6—8
Genre
drama,
immersive

A black man dies. But who was he when he was alive? And why was he robbed of a dignified death? His death is dissected, his body studied, vilified, defiled, and dehumanized. Through a series of vignettes, an omniscient Dead Black Man narrator attempts to unravel this cruelty, envisioning a world that uplifts and promises a secure passage for the dead – a world in which black men are full of light, joy, and peace...

A black man dies. But who was he when he was alive? And why was he robbed of a dignified death? His death is dissected, his body studied, vilified, defiled, and dehumanized. Through a series of vignettes, an omniscient Dead Black Man narrator attempts to unravel this cruelty, envisioning a world that uplifts and promises a secure passage for the dead – a world in which black men are full of light, joy, and peace.

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A & Bea

by Tanya Everett

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
tragedy

A and Bea is an epic love story—as most love stories are—that explores the messy, fractured, and ultimately deepest and most meaningful partnership of these women’s lives. In the wake of her partner’s death, Abbie attempts to mend the fractures of their past together, through shifts in time and space. We will construct their lives-how and why they grew apart and together, and discover how Abbie tumbled through...

A and Bea is an epic love story—as most love stories are—that explores the messy, fractured, and ultimately deepest and most meaningful partnership of these women’s lives. In the wake of her partner’s death, Abbie attempts to mend the fractures of their past together, through shifts in time and space. We will construct their lives-how and why they grew apart and together, and discover how Abbie tumbled through life with her Bea—and how she might continue on in the wake of her absence.

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