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"Me and my girls, we're gonna find each other again."

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Fight Scenes Night
17-19 Feb 2023 | 7pm

Raya is directing Swarthmore's first Fight Scenes Night as a thesis in fight directing.
Upper Tarble, Clothier Hall, Swarthmore PA
​Free and open to the public
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details here
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Eurydice
31 Mar - 2 Apr 2023

Raya will play the title character in Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of the Greek myth.
Frear Ensemble Theater, Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore PA
​Free and open to the public

details here

past events

2023
"26th Annual Poetry Ink"
10 January 2023
​Moonstone Arts Center,
Philadelphia PA​
​Reading with 100 other poets
2022
"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

apocalypse blues published with Plan B Press
16 August 2022


Teaching at Brooklyn New School
4 February 2022
Brooklyn NY
2021
"Wheel of Fortune"
December 2021
Button Poetry Video Contest
Collaboration with Bitaniya Giday took runner-up in the Emerging Artists category

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
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
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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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  • Note from Raya
  • Events + Press
  • Acting
    • Bella Bateekh in: Out of Mind
  • Writing
    • apocalypse blues
    • To All the Yellow Flowers
  • Contact