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Ashley Tata makes multi-media works of theater, contemporary opera, performance, cyberformance, live music and immersive experiences. These have been presented in venues and festivals throughout the US and internationally including Theatre for a New Audience, LA Opera, Austin Opera, The Miller Theater, National Sawdust, EMPAC, PS21, The Crossing the Line Festival, the Holland Festival, The Prelude Festival, The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and the Fisher Center at Bard. Tata’s work has been called “fervently inventive,” by Ben Brantley in the New York Times, “extraordinarily powerful” by the LA Times and a notable production of the decade by Alex Ross in the New Yorker. Tata earned an MFA in directing at Columbia University and has taught, guest taught or been a guest artist at Harvard University, MIT, Marymount Manhattan College, Colgate College, Bard College and LIU Post and is currently on faculty at Mannes School of Music and the College of the Performing Arts at The New School. Member of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s inaugural residency cohort, the Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors’ Lab, recipient of a MAP Grant, Lotos Foundation's Emerging Artist Award in Arts and Sciences and a winner of the Robert L. B. Tobin Director/Designer grant. For more info including how to contact for future collaborations: www.tatatime.live ig/twitter/twitch: @tatatime_