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Hi, I'm Talya—a storyteller, experience designer and producer working across theater, narrative change and photography. I’m based in NYC but have had the privilege of calling Melbourne and Cape Town home too. As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors and a teenager during South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy, my work has centered on themes of intergenerational memory, history and cultural identity. I love to create immersive projects that bring people together in unexpected ways often in unexpected locations. Whether that’s creating fifteen-foot puppets at the Border Wall, designing interactive “choose your own adventure” experiences inside IKEA, or designing meaningful events for PopShift, a narrative change nonprofit where I help Hollywood storytellers imagine more empathetic, inclusive future narratives. I get to collaborate with partners like WarnerMedia and Amazon to foster storytelling that shows our world as kinder and more complex. |
My work’s been described by No Proscenium as “a playful, tasteful, and profound invitation to” Culturebot once wrote that Port Cities NYC “pulls off the major undertaking of traversing four hundred years of history — beautifully,” while Realtime noted that In Other Words let us “comprehend the poetry of trauma, as well as the trauma itself.”
I’m also lucky enough to have had my work supported by grants and residencies around the globe-from Melbourne, Minneapolis and New York to Hamburg, Dublin, Cape Town and Buenos Aires and hold a MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University where I was the Deans Fellow.
When I'm not directing, producing or designing, you'll probably find me with a camera in hand (my photos have been published in The NY Times, American Theatre Magazine, Critical Dance, Theatermania and on a bunch of theater websites), biking around for the best coffee, or getting into my new obsession: pottery.
Thanks for stopping by—I'm excited to connect!
I’m also lucky enough to have had my work supported by grants and residencies around the globe-from Melbourne, Minneapolis and New York to Hamburg, Dublin, Cape Town and Buenos Aires and hold a MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University where I was the Deans Fellow.
When I'm not directing, producing or designing, you'll probably find me with a camera in hand (my photos have been published in The NY Times, American Theatre Magazine, Critical Dance, Theatermania and on a bunch of theater websites), biking around for the best coffee, or getting into my new obsession: pottery.
Thanks for stopping by—I'm excited to connect!
