Tanya Kane-Parry received her BFA from NYU (Circle-in-the-Square, Experimental Theater Wing) and her MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Originally from NYC, Tanya has worked in Europe and Russia as a performer, director, choreographer and teacher. NYC directing credits include Richard Foreman’s The Cure as part of the first annual Foreman Fest at Todo con Nada; the world premiere of Arthur Sainer’s Jews and Christians in the End Zone (Theater for the New City); The Trojan Women (Westside Rep); Gun in Mouth, Pen in Hand (Ontological-Hysteric Theater).

In the fall of 2002, after unveiling Paul Outlaw’s Berserker as a work-in-progress at Highways Performance Space in Santa

Monica, she directed the world premiere of Richard Foreman’s Supreme Being as part of Los Angeles’ Edge of the World Theatre Festival at Stages Theater. Other LA credits include the world

premiere of Christmas Past by Monica Trasandes as part of "Christmas Is Queer" at Celebration Theatre and Romeo and/y Juliet(a) at the Noho Actors Studio with Quantum Theatre Company, which recently named Tanya its artistic director.

Currently, Tanya is collaborating with Rosanna Gamson/World Wide and Mexican choreographer Cecilia Appleton on a new bilingual dance-theatre piece based on Carlos Fuentes’ book Aura. Tanya is also co-coordinating a Viewpoints Intensive Workshop with creator Mary Overlie and renowned theatre director Anne Bogart as part of CSU Summer Arts in June/July 2004 in Fresno. Tanya Kane-Parry is a full-time faculty member at CSU Los Angeles, where she teaches Acting, Voice and Movement (Viewpoints).