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Tara
Ayres has been involved in theater since her first role as
Sally in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown when she was
in 6th grade. For many years Tara focused on music rather than
theater, singing with a variety of bands from DykeAppella to
the Murder Sisters. She has also been on-air at WORT-FM since
1981, with Her Turn, Her Infinite Variety, Queery, and Better
Living Through Show Tunes.
Tara returned to the theater in
1999, as Harriet in the Flaming Dykasaurus musical comedy, Oblivia. Since then, she has worked with a variety of
theater companies, acting, directing, stage managing and doing
tech for Mercury Players Theater, StageQ, Strollers, TapIT!/New
Works and the Madison Theater Guild. She directed the original
work, Smash the Beautocracy for NOW, and has produced
and directed several drag king reviews for SPRAWL and Scrawl.
She also produces concerts and dances for SPRAWL. Her original
play, Loving More, co-written with Doug Holtz, was
produced by Mercury Players Theater in 2003.
Outside of the theater, Tara has a long history of activism
on social justice issues, including anti-violence, lesbian and
gay rights, environmental, anti-racism and anti-poverty
initiatives.
Tara is grateful to Tom McClurg for creating and nurturing
StageQ through its first five years.
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