Tana Sirois

Tana holds a BA in Acting from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and an MSc in Creative Arts & Mental Health from Queen Mary University of London. She is a member of the international movement theatre collective, The How, and of the feminist musical comedy troupe, Broad Comedy, which tours the country raising money for Planned Parenthood, The ACLU, and other progressive organizations. She is co-founder of the non-profit arts & culture center, Culture Lab LIC in NYC, and Artistic Director of Dirt [contained] Theatre Company, where she writes and produces socially conscious theatre with an absurd twist. Her original play Crushing Baby Animals played at The IRT theatre in NYC, and her movement theatre piece, My Favorite Person ran in NYC at HERE Arts, and at Thuafier in Istanbul.

Tana utilizes improvisation to devise movement-based work that strives for eloquence in absurdity and authenticity in chaos. The research she has undertaken at the intersection of art and mental health has inspired her to create work centered around issues of equality and the ever-changing nature of the self. Tana believes in the efficacy of art for social justice, and holds a deep respect for the profound healing power of the theatre. Her academic research has been published in the journal Applied Theatre Research: Socially Engaged Performance, and her theatrical work has been supported by The Queens Council on the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the US Embassy in Türkiye.

Her one-woman show UnTethered, which is about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, queerness and demisexuality has played at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, DasDas in Istanbul, The Tank in NYC, and at Camden People’s Theatre and The Glitch in London, where it was nominated for a Fringe Theatre Award.

UnTethered will play at BCN Studio in Barcelona on October 10th & 11th.