Talya Kingston

Talya Kingston is a playwright, dramaturg and theater educator with a particular interest in new play development and theatre for social change. Her plays include: Circling Suspicion (commissioned and produced by Plays In Place/Historic Northampton); Port of Entry(shortlisted for the 2025 Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize, Silverthorne Theatre, WAM Theatre); Campus Unrest (finalist in the 2019 Bechdel Test Fest); Wave Goodbye (PLAYground TYA Festival at Northwestern University and semi-finalist for Provincetown Playhouse’s New Plays for Young Audiences); Sheryl Addresses the PGO (The New England Monologues Project); Wishing on Satellites; and Anxiety Overdrive. As a dramaturg Talya has worked with WAM Theatre, Hartford Stage, Central Square Theater, Capital Rep, Berkshire Theater Group, New York Fringe Festival, and the Ko Festival. She is a producer and commissioned writer for Plays in Place and an Artistic Advisor for the Play Incubation Collective. Talya has previously held the positions of Associate Artistic Director at WAM Theatre, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater at Hampshire College, Education Director at Hartford Stage, and Educational Programs Coordinator at the New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. She has an MFA in dramaturgy from UMass/Amherst and has published writing on theater in the Journal of American Drama and Theater, Scene Magazine, Theater Journal, The Moving Voice, European Stages, Howlround and The Valley Advocate. Talya is a proud member of the Northampton Playwrights Lab, Dramatist Guild, and LMDA