Talya Kingston- Co-Creator and Co-Director (she/her) is a playwright, dramaturg and educator who is inspired by the live interactions between artists and audiences and how these can be a catalyst for social change. Current Role with WAM Theatre: Co-Creator and Director for the cabaret, Associate Artistic Director. Selected WAM Theatre Credits: dramaturgy (What The Constitution Means to Me, Roe, Lady Randy), direction (The Thanksgiving Play, Paradise, Swallow), playwright (Port of Entry, Campus Unrest). Selected Dramaturgy Credits Elsewhere: Hartford Stage (Necessary Targets), New York Fringe Festival (Helmet), Ko Festival (Seriously..  What Did You Call Me? Written and performed by Onawumi Jean Moss), UMass, Amherst (Gum, Christmas Carol, Bovver Boys, The Last Five Years, Life is a Dream, Late Style).  Playwriting: Circling Suspicion (commissioned by Plays In Place), Port of Entry, Campus Unrest  (finalist in the 2019 Bechtel Test Fest), Wave Goodbye (2020 PLAYground TYA Festival at NorthWestern University, semi-finalist for Provincetown Playhouse’s New Plays for Young Audiences), Sheryl Addresses the PGO (The New England Monologues Project), Wishing on Satellites, Anxiety Overdrive (upcoming Play by Play Festival). Training: MFA University of Massachusetts, Directing Fellow at Julliard. Memberships/Affiliations: proud member of the Northampton Playwrights Lab, the Play Incubation Collective, the Dramatists Guild and LMDA Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.