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.
Tasha is a recipient of the Dramatist Guild Fellowship, the Playwrights Realm Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation Grant, and an AFO Solo Collective Residency. She has received residencies at Barrington Stage Company, The Millay Colony, Bethany Arts Community and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a member of the Theater Now Musical Theater Writers Lab and BMI Advanced Musical Theater Workshop, and an alumna of the Ars Nova Playgroup, Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group, and Project Y Playwrights Group. She has been commissioned by Actors Theater of Louisville and Project Y Theater.
Tasha’s teaching credits include the NYU Department of Dramatic Writing, NYU Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts, Curious New Voices Festival (Master Playwright), Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Educational Theater Festival, Interlochen Arts Camp, LEAP Onstage and Girls Write Now. Tasha also works privately as a writing coach and script consultant. She has worked with writers on novels that have been published, articles that have been printed in places like the New York Times, and plays at all stages of development.
Tasha’s writing has appeared in Dramatist Magazine, American Theatre Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and The Huffington Post. She received her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU and attended the National Theater Institute. She is a proud 52nd Street Project Volunteer.