tanya Palmer

Tanya Palmer is a dramaturg, creative producer, educator, and playwright who currently serves as the Assistant Dean and Executive Artistic Director at Northwestern University’s School of Communication, overseeing programming at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. Prior to joining Northwestern, she served as the Director of New Play Development at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago for 14 seasons and at Actors Theatre of Louisville for 5 seasons. Originally from Calgary, Canada she holds an MFA in Playwriting from York University in Toronto and an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia in Montreal. She currently lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband Jim and their two teenagers, Harper & Theo.