Hi, I'm Talya—a storyteller, experience designer and producer working across theater, narrative change and photography.


I’m based in Brooklyn NY but have the privilege of calling Melbourne and Cape Town home too. My creative journey started as a theater-maker, creating immersive projects exploring intergenerational memory, cultural identity, and social justice—themes that resonate deeply, shaped by my family’s Holocaust history and my own experiences growing up during South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy.

I love to bring people together in unexpected ways, 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 narratives. I get to collaborate with partners like Netflix and Amazon to foster storytelling that shows our world as kinder and more complex.

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. When I'm not 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.
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Thanks for stopping by—I'm excited to connect!

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