TANYA BIRL-TORRES

Director|Choreographer

Tanya is a New York City based Creative Director, Choreographer, Movement Director, Systems Change facilitator and Mother. In addition to her decade long Broadway performance career, she has served as the Choreographer/Movement Director on productions such as: The World Premiere of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theater), The Domino Effect (The People’s Theater/A.R.T), Chaplin (Broadway), How I Learned What I Learned (OSF), Twelfth Night (The Public Theater), The Red Letter Plays (The Signature Theater), Comedy of Errors (Classic Stage Company), As You Like It (The Guthrie Theater), Peter and the Starcatcher (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Cotton Club Parade (City Center Encores!). As a systems change facilitator, she has worked closely with National Arts Strategies, Illuminate Network and Systems Sanctuary through her own company SoHumanity to bring embodied liberatory practice into the world of social innovation, bridging conversations across differences. She has created workshops with world renowned Educator, Chris Emdin on Reality Pedagogy as Presencing and co-teaches ‘Creativity and Communication’ at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Tanya is the recipient of the 2024 MAP fund grant, Hi-Arts Critical Breaks Residency and NoMAA Grantee for her original choreo-play “A Play in Three Movements” . She served as the artistic director of the Washington Heights Womanist Arts Festival and the 2023 recipient of the NewYorker 4 NewYork award from the Citizens Commitee of NY named as a 'women breaking glass ceilings in NYC and beyond'. Next up, Tanya is working on ‘The Zora Project’ as The Shed’s 2025 Social Practice Artist in Residence.

Resume/CV

@sohumanity