Dara is a writer and advocate with a background in leadership development and education. She graduated with honors from Columbia University, completing a degree in English and Comparative Literature focused on contemporary drama. While at Columbia, she was selected for the Oxbridge Scholars Program and a theatre education internship with The 52nd Street Project. Teach for America brought her to Oklahoma, where she was a founding member of the inclusion council at CAP Tulsa and co-founded the Gay-Straight Alliance at the high school where she taught English. She also worked in operations at a nonprofit organization that identifies and connects leaders in the greater Tulsa community. Dara currently works at the Good Food Institute, where she plans and writes donor communications to inspire GFI's global community of supporters. She is a member of the Sentient Media Writers' Collective and has mentored with Magnify Mentoring and the Odyssey Mentoring Program. Dara serves on the board of DC Veg Week, an organization working to increase compassion toward animals in Washington DC.
Favorite Stories:
- Review: FUN HOME at Studio Theatre - One of my favorite musicals, performed with extra heart.
- COME FROM AWAY: In Concert at the Lincoln Memorial - A one-night-only unforgettable experience.
- BWW Review: The Orbit Initiative's Hamlet - Shakespeare over Zoom during the early pandemic.
- BWW Interview: Theatre Tulsa's Jarrod Kopp - A conversation with the executive director Tulsa's oldest nonprofit theatre.
- BWW Review: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE at American Theatre Company - Sondheim in Tulsa.
BWW Review: HEISENBERG/LUNGS at American Theatre Company
August 21, 2018
August 21, 2018
'Do you find me exhausting but captivating?' This line, from American Theatre Company's production of Heisenberg/Lungs, encapsulates the experience of seeing two striking one-act masterpieces of modern drama back-to-back. With the production of this two-part two-hander, directors Meghan Hurley and Timothy Hunter have demonstrated that Tulsa is equipped with the dramatic chops to do justice to some truly intense pieces of theatre. The plays Heisenberg and Lungs, while separated by only a brief intermission in this production, are entirely discrete works and even have different casts and directors. However, both are by written by contemporary English playwrights and tell the stories of a man and a woman who explore the nature of their relationships and their own place in the world.
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