tamara tunie
director
TAMARA TUNIE Broadway Producer: Spring Awakening (TONY AWARD), August Wilson's Radio Golf (TONY Nomination), and Magic vs Bird. Off-Broadway: The Dutchman (The Cherry Lane Theater), Frog Kiss (Virginia Stage Company).
Ms. Tunie had the honor and pleasure of directing FEELIN’ GOOD!, TONY AWARD- winner LaCHANZE’S autobiographical, one-woman show. She produced and directed the feature film SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER, and NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP (a Pandemic/ZOOM film short featuring Patina Miller), directed and co-wrote the world premiere of JAZZLAND at The Harlem School of the Arts, and is directing two new musicals in development, MARIAN, about the life of the world changing Opera Diva, and DOROTHY DANDRIDGE: the Musical, about the life of the first Black Movie Star. Acting credits include but not limited to Theater: THE 47TH (The Old Vic, London), Julius Caesar, Dreamgirls, Oh Kay!, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (Broadway); Building the Wall (New World Stages); Familiar – Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actor (Playwrights Horizons); American Son – Berkshire Theater Award Best Actor (Barrington Stage Company); 42nd Street (The Ordway), Prospero in The Tempest (Pittsburgh Public Theater), The Library (The NY Public Theater); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theater Virginia).
Television: Cowboy Bebop, SEE, Black Earth Rising, Dietland, The Red Road, Law & Order: SVU, Almost Family, Better Call Saul, Blue Bloods, Billions, 24, to name a few. Film: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, A Journal for Jordan, Flight, The Devil’s Advocate, City Hall, The Caveman’s Valentine, and more.
She is Chair Emerita of the Board of Directors of Figure Skating in Harlem, serves on the Board of Directors at Harlem Stage/The Gatehouse, and The City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh. She, also, serves on the Advisory Board of Hearts of Gold, and is a founding member of BLACK THEATRE UNITED. Ms. Tunie is an acclaimed vocalist, and her debut album “Dreamsville” launched at the 2019 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival.
In 2005, Mayor Bloomberg awarded her the "Made in New York Award" from the City of New York, for her support and commitment to Film, Television and Theater. Ms. Tunie has a BFA in Musical Theatre from Carnegie-Mellon University, and now serves on its Executive Board of Trustees. She is a Pittsburgh native (GO STEELERS!), but calls Harlem “home”.