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Ryan Tacata

Ryan Tacata, Ph.D., is a performance maker and scholar based in San Francisco.

Erika Chong Shuch’s THEATERTHEATER

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Ryan Tacata’s Lolas at Asian Art Museum

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Love is The Fullest Education (Euripides #91) on Slacker Hill

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Artist Weather – Pray For Rain

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Cloud Talk, Artist Weather television

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Romeo and Juliet

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Jean Genet’s The Balcony at The Old Mint

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Performance Studies international

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Franconia Performance Salon

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Angrette McCloskey’s Building Score 101b

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Princess Ivona

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Ryan has a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007) and received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Stanford University. His recent projects include dancing in Doggie Hamlet (2015–ongoing) by Ann Carlson; For You with Erika Chong Shuch (2016–ongoing); The Magical Order of … (2014) with Julie Tolentino for YBCA in Community; and Séance (forthcoming). His academic research investigates alternative methods of archival research, performance art historiography, and experimental spatial practice. He has been a visiting faculty member in the Department of History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Art Institute as well as in the M.F.A. Program in Theatre and Performance Making at the California Institute of Integral Studies/University of Chichester (U.K.).  He is currently an Assistant Professor of Performance at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University

Ryan Tacata