CURRENT PROJECTS
Good Mother: Playwright
—Coming Soon!—
What does it mean to be a "good mother?" Anne has given her adopted daughter everything imaginable, except the truth about how she came to find her in the first place.
A deep, messy, epic love story—as most love stories are. When these two women of color met 20 years ago, there had oceans to cross. In the wake of her partner’s death, Abbie tries to restitch their fractured history, tracing across time & space. Along with some bumps and bruises, she discovers the poetry and dissonance that was their relationship.
A & Bea: Playwright
PAST PROJECTS
Dead Black Man
A black man dies. But who was he when he was alive? And why was he robbed of a dignified death? His death is dissected, his body studied, vilified, defiled, and dehumanized. Through a series of vignettes, A Dead Black Man attempts to unravel this cruelty, envisioning a world that uplifts and promises a secure passage for the dead – a world in which black men are full of light, joy, and peace.
Moonhaven: Staffwriter
AMC+ Dystopian Sci-fi series, set 100 years in the future. Bella Sway, a lunar pilot & smuggler finds herself a victim of a crime & marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community built on the moon to find solutions to problems that will soon end civilization.
Rhode Island Red: Developed
This 1-hour, neo-noir serialized crime drama with eight episode seasons based on Charlotte Carter’s character & books. Each week, we find Nanette’s piece of an unsolved mystery, while she discovers how capable she is!
Company Man: Developed
Based on the Joe Finder’s New York Times best-selling book, the series is a tense, character driven, cat-and-mouse chase, with strong Fugitive and No Way Out vibes, asking ‘Does everyone deserves a shot at redemption?’
BIO
Tanya Everett hails from Mass, but grew to adulthood in Brooklyn. Her plays have been performed all over NY: including the Public, Cherry Lane, and HERE Arts Center.
Her work has seen many rounds of competitions, and most recently she was a 2019-20 Playwrights' Realm Fellow. And The Gods Walk Among Us was named Semi-Finalist for the Princess Grace Award and Finalist for the Lark Development Week. A Dead Black Man, was a Finalist for the Dramatist Guild Fellowship in 2019. She graduated in 2019 from Brooklyn College, under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney. She won the AAUW Career Development Grant, the Truman Capote Scholarship, & the 2018 MFA in Playwriting Awards to support her academic pursuits. She was named Alternate for the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in California. Her short play Thousand Miles, is nominated for a 2019 for a Drama League Award with the AFO Shorts Festival. She is working on several projects in development for Film & TV. Some of her teachers and mentors include: Stephen Adley Guirgis, Ellen McLaughlin, Maggie Flanigan, & Julia Jordan. She is represented by Tim Phillips & Jamie Kaye-Phillips of UTA, & Dan Halstead of Manage-ment.
She is grateful to her family, earth and chosen, for their dedication and love. A sweet rest to Linda, John, Ken, Nikki, Gloria, and Thelma.
When she is neither acting nor writing, Tanya enjoys homemade food, live performances, working with youth, cuddling and communing with artistic spirits.
