past events
2023
Awarded "Best Performer"
August 2023
SAFD NSCW, Ruston LA
Commended for exceptional storytelling through fighting
"Sad Green Milk" dir. Jake Rothman
May 2023
Tri-College Film Festival, Swarthmore PA
Awarded the Prize for Collaborative Filmmaking
Swarthmore Intercultural Center Awards
May 2023
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Awarded "Arts in Activism" award recognizing years of liberation-oriented creative work
"Eurydice"
March-April 2023
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Zivia Lichtenberg
"Fight Scenes Night"
February 2023
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Raya Tuffaha
"26th Annual Poetry Ink"
10 January 2023
Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia PA
Reading with 100 other poets
August 2023
SAFD NSCW, Ruston LA
Commended for exceptional storytelling through fighting
"Sad Green Milk" dir. Jake Rothman
May 2023
Tri-College Film Festival, Swarthmore PA
Awarded the Prize for Collaborative Filmmaking
Swarthmore Intercultural Center Awards
May 2023
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Awarded "Arts in Activism" award recognizing years of liberation-oriented creative work
"Eurydice"
March-April 2023
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Zivia Lichtenberg
"Fight Scenes Night"
February 2023
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Raya Tuffaha
"26th Annual Poetry Ink"
10 January 2023
Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia PA
Reading with 100 other poets
2022
"The Physicists"
December 2022
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Marie Inniss
"Virtual Evening with the Poets"
8 December 2022
Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia PA
Reading with Christopher Bullard, Cynthia Dewi Oka and Katie Zale
"apocalypse blues"
18 November 2022
The Spiral Bookcase, Philadelphia PA
Reading with Bitaniya Giday and Azura Tyabji
"apocalypse blues book launch"
28 October 2022
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Performed with Whitney Grinnage-Cassidy, Pablo Famodou, and Zivia Lichtenberg
"Bella Bateekh in: Out of Mind"
October 2022
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Sam Tower
"My fairy godkhalto visited me for the first time"
9 September 2022
Succarnochee Review, University of West Alabama
apocalypse blues published with Plan B Press
16 August 2022
"R3TURN"
April 2022
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Zaina Dana & Robi Hager
Teaching at Brooklyn New School
4 February 2022
Brooklyn NY
December 2022
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Marie Inniss
"Virtual Evening with the Poets"
8 December 2022
Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia PA
Reading with Christopher Bullard, Cynthia Dewi Oka and Katie Zale
"apocalypse blues"
18 November 2022
The Spiral Bookcase, Philadelphia PA
Reading with Bitaniya Giday and Azura Tyabji
"apocalypse blues book launch"
28 October 2022
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Performed with Whitney Grinnage-Cassidy, Pablo Famodou, and Zivia Lichtenberg
"Bella Bateekh in: Out of Mind"
October 2022
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Sam Tower
"My fairy godkhalto visited me for the first time"
9 September 2022
Succarnochee Review, University of West Alabama
apocalypse blues published with Plan B Press
16 August 2022
"R3TURN"
April 2022
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Zaina Dana & Robi Hager
Teaching at Brooklyn New School
4 February 2022
Brooklyn NY
2021
"Hippolytus"
December 2021
The Playground Theatre, London UK
Directed by Mojisola Elufowoju
"Wheel of Fortune"
December 2021
Button Poetry Video Contest
Collaboration with Bitaniya Giday took runner-up in the Emerging Artists category
"i do not spill blood"
December 2021
Voices, Swarthmore PA
Semi-personal essay dissecting the bystander effect in theatrical contexts
"Why Are You Killing Yourself?"
13 September 2021
Pig Iron Theatre Co, Philadelphia PA
Radio re-production of Zaina Dana's play
"Behind the Curtain"
July 2021
Foulplay Murder Mysteries, Seattle WA
Directed by Maddy Vonhoff
"Setting You Up For Success"
11 June 2021
Lavender Rights Project x YouthSpeaks Seattle, Seattle WA
PRIDE Convention day 1 led by QTPOC Seattle artists
"Why Are You Killing Yourself?"
May 2021
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Zaina Dana
Seattle University Cultural Resistance Festival
April 2021
Seattle University, Seattle WA
Collaboration with SUPER at Seattle U, WWU, UW and Falastiniyat
"I Know We Love Rodgers & Hammerstein, But..."
March 2021
The Next Canon Podcast, Seattle WA
Interviewed with Dani Rei
"The Diva Gap"
February 2021
Voices, Swarthmore PA
Essay on the dehumanization of women of color in the theatre industry
December 2021
The Playground Theatre, London UK
Directed by Mojisola Elufowoju
"Wheel of Fortune"
December 2021
Button Poetry Video Contest
Collaboration with Bitaniya Giday took runner-up in the Emerging Artists category
"i do not spill blood"
December 2021
Voices, Swarthmore PA
Semi-personal essay dissecting the bystander effect in theatrical contexts
"Why Are You Killing Yourself?"
13 September 2021
Pig Iron Theatre Co, Philadelphia PA
Radio re-production of Zaina Dana's play
"Behind the Curtain"
July 2021
Foulplay Murder Mysteries, Seattle WA
Directed by Maddy Vonhoff
"Setting You Up For Success"
11 June 2021
Lavender Rights Project x YouthSpeaks Seattle, Seattle WA
PRIDE Convention day 1 led by QTPOC Seattle artists
"Why Are You Killing Yourself?"
May 2021
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Zaina Dana
Seattle University Cultural Resistance Festival
April 2021
Seattle University, Seattle WA
Collaboration with SUPER at Seattle U, WWU, UW and Falastiniyat
"I Know We Love Rodgers & Hammerstein, But..."
March 2021
The Next Canon Podcast, Seattle WA
Interviewed with Dani Rei
"The Diva Gap"
February 2021
Voices, Swarthmore PA
Essay on the dehumanization of women of color in the theatre industry
2020
Judge for BNV 2020
22 July 2020
Virtual
YouthSpeaks + Brave New Voices
Swarthmore Intercultural Center Awards
April 2020
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
"To All the Yellow Flowers" awarded the 2020 Arts in Activism Award
To All the Yellow Flowers published with Golden Antelope Press
1 March 2020
22 July 2020
Virtual
YouthSpeaks + Brave New Voices
Swarthmore Intercultural Center Awards
April 2020
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
"To All the Yellow Flowers" awarded the 2020 Arts in Activism Award
To All the Yellow Flowers published with Golden Antelope Press
1 March 2020
2019
"A View From The Bridge"
December 2019
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Zaina Dana
"Homecoming: The Slam Showcase"
August 2019
Hugo House, Seattle WA
Celebration of Seattle's performance on the youth and adult slam poetry stages in 2019
Placed third at BNV (Team Seattle)
25 July 2019
Brave New Voices, Las Vegas NV
Coached by Will Nu'utupu Giles and Azura Tyabji
December 2019
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Directed by Zaina Dana
"Homecoming: The Slam Showcase"
August 2019
Hugo House, Seattle WA
Celebration of Seattle's performance on the youth and adult slam poetry stages in 2019
Placed third at BNV (Team Seattle)
25 July 2019
Brave New Voices, Las Vegas NV
Coached by Will Nu'utupu Giles and Azura Tyabji
In this review, Aviva Weiser and Raya Tuffaha unpack the process of creating Fight Scenes Night and introducing the Swarthmore community to an exciting, important art form.
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In this interview, Katherine Kihiczak sits down with Raya Tuffaha to discuss meta theatre, creating and performing violence for an audience, and what it means to write a play with care.
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Jaimie Lopez at Swarthmore College sits down with Tuffaha to discuss her co-hosting of a BIPOC-Authored Night of Scenes with Thandiwe McMillan. They talk successes, failures, and hopes for the future.
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