Nelle Tankus

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Nelle Tankus (she/her) is a playwright & performer whose work explores queerness, the absurd, and metamorphosis. Her full-length work has been seen most recently in Seattle at Annex Theatre (Tenderness, dir. Grace Carmack and E. Pike), Copious Love Productions, (The Untitled Play About Art School, dir. L. Nicol Cabe), and Parley Productions (Yom Kippur, dir. Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth). Her shorter works have been seen at 12 Minutes Max, Parley, Parley Lit, and MirrorStage. She was a semi-finalist for the Jerome Fellowship (2021-2022), Playwrights Realm Scratchpad Series (2019), and the Eugene O'Neil National Playwright's Conference (2018). She is a two-time Lambda Literary fellow (2015 & 2017), and was was a 2021 María Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop fellow. She holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. She is based on Duwamish Land [aka Seattle], and is a proud member of Parley Playwrights Group.

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