Lecturer PT, Adjunct
tcaria1@umbc.edu
Tara is a Filipina-American, Baltimore-based theatre educator with an emphasis in physical theatre practice, a director, devisor, performer, administrator, mask maker, and founder of Waxing Moon Masks Education and Fabrication Company. Tara received her MFA from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, her BA from the University of Maryland. She is a collective member of Submersive Theatre in Baltimore, artistic associate of Baltimore Asian Pacifika Arts Collective (BAPAC), and consulting committee member of the Baltimore League of Theatres (BLOT). Formerly the Director of Inclusion and Community and Director of The Dogs of Art political theatre ensemble, (under the umbrella of the company, Guerrilla Theatre Front), Tara teaches is adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Community College of Baltimore County (Essex and Catonsville), and has yearly residencies at the Pig Iron school of Physical Theatre in Philadelphia. Notably, her ongoing work with non-profit B4 Youth Theatre, using masks for social justice play-making, has led to the development of a new drama pedagogy in use in West Africa for the last 4 years.