About
Tanisha Taitt
Tanisha Taitt is a writer/director/actor, producer and artist-educator. She has worked with YPT, Obsidian, NAC, Acting UpStage, Buddies In Bad Times, Nightwood, and is Director of the Peace Camp program at Children's Peace Theatre--an organization that teaches young people about creating a culture of peace through theatre. Also a singer and songsmith, she is a winner of the Canadian Music Publishers' Award for excellence in songwriting. Tanisha's other plays include Violent Be Violet, which received favourable reviews at the 2012 SummerWorks Festival and Admissions, a play for high schools. An ardent anti-VAW activist, Tanisha is a two-time YWCA Woman of Distinction nominee for her commitment to anti-violence and social justice. Keeper is her first published play.