Virlana Tkacz

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Full Name	Virlana Tkacz
Occupation	Theatre Director
Date Of Birth	Jun 23, 1952(1952-06-23)
Age	72
Birthplace	Newark
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Gemini

Virlana Tkacz Biography

Virlana Tkacz is one of the most popular and richest Theatre Director who was born on June 23, 1952 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. With Yara she has created more than thirty original pieces of theatre which combine fragments of contemporary poetry as well as folk songs and chants and legends and stories from the East in an evocative performance that tells a story. In their design and core, they use videos, projected images and intricate musical scores to examine our relationship with the present and our consciousness. Recent Yara works, “Underground Dreams” and “Hitting Bedrock,” were made from interviews with refugees and urban youth and “1917-2017: Tychyna Zhadan & the Dogs” was a play about the horrors of war, and was awarded the two New York Innovative Theatre Awards. [2]

10 Years of Poetry From the Yara Theatre Workshops in Harvard twenty of the most acclaimed Ukrainian poems written during the Yara Workshops, with winning translations by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. The book was created by hand by Carmen Pujols in 1998. Every book is numbered and is signed by the person who made it.

Yara’s work with Buryat artists led Tkacz and Phipps to collaborate with Sayan Zhambalov on Buryat Mongolian translations. Their work on shaman chants was recognized by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Translation Award and led to the publication of their book Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman by Parabola Books in 2002. The book was published in paperback as Siberian Shamanism: The Shanar Ritual of the Buryats in 2015 and in French as Chamanisme Siberien: Le Rituel du Shanr des Bouriates” in 2017.

Ms. Tkacz was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Theatre Institute in Kyiv in 2002 and in Bishkek in 2008, and at the Kurbas theatre Center in Kyiv (2016). She has conducted theatre workshops for Harvard Summer Institute for eleven years and has lectured at Yale School of Drama and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She has assisted such directors as Andrei Serban, Ping Chong, George Ferencz and Wilford Leach at La MaMa, as well as Sir Peter Hall on Broadway and Michael Bogdanov at the National Theatre in London.

In 1996, she started working in collaboration with native Buryat artist from Siberia. They created six original pieces of theatre. The material was based on traditional materials including shaman chants, rituals, and rituals the pieces were staged in La MaMa, in Ulan Ude at the Buryat National Theatre, as well as in the Aga-Buryat region. They include Circle which was added to into the program of Buryat National Theatre, and then after its 330-performance, it was named the company’s top-performing show. The Village Voice wrote: “A stunningly beautiful work, Circle, rushes at your senses, makes your heart pound, and shakes your feeling loose.”

Virlana Tkacz Net Worth

Virlana Tkacz is one of the richest Theatre Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Virlana Tkacz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Virlana Tkacz (born on June 23rd 1952, in Newark, New Jersey) is the director who founded the Yara Arts Group, a resident company of the famous La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. She studied at Bennington College and Columbia University and earned the degree of Master of Fine Arts in theater as well as directing.

Since 1989, she has collaborated with the African-American poet Wanda Phipps on translations of Ukrainian poetry. Their work is the basis of numerous Yara productions and has appeared in a variety of American literary magazines as well as anthologies, CD inserts. The translations they utilized for Yara productions were released in 2008 in a bilingual anthology In the Light of a Different Light. Together, they’ve received an award of the Agni Translation Prize and seven NYSCA Translation grants, and The National Theatre Translation Fund Award for their work on the poetry play Forest Song. Tkacz as well as Phipps have also committed their time to translating material from the past like folk stories, songs epics, incantations, and folk tales. In 2005, Tkacz was given an NEA Poetry Translation Fellowship for research on contemporary poetry from Serhiy Zhadan. Recently, Yale University Press published What We Live For/What we Die for: Selected Poems of Serhiy Zhadan translated by their translators. The reviewer of Times Literary Supplement called Zhadan “a world- class poet” and their translations “masterful.” The book has been nominated to win a PEN Poetry Translation Award.

Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman by Virlana Tkacz, with Sayan Zhambalov and Wanda Phipps, photographs by Alexander Khantaev, New York: Parabola Books, 2002.

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Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation, edited by Irena R. Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

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What We Live For/What We Die For: Selected Poems, by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phippps, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.