Tamar is a theatre director and a dramaturg who works collaboratively with playwrights to develop new plays. She trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, and was a Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre from 2019-2020. Tamar is co-founder of RoughHewn Dramaturgy - the only company solely dedicated to the practice of dramaturgy currently operating in the UK. RoughHewn were proud winners of the 2021 Olwen Wymark Award, and over the past three years they have worked with over 100 writers for theatre and for screen - both in the UK and internationally - supporting them to hone and develop their scripts.
Tamar has been a script reader for the UK's most prolific new writing theatres and playwriting awards, including The National Theatre, Almeida, Bush, The Royal Exchange, Soho Theatre, the Bruntwood Prize, the Papatango Prize and The Verity Bargate Award. She also works as a script reader and script editor for TV: she is a reader for BBC Writersroom, and was shadow Script Editor on the esteemed Channel 4 Screenwriting Course 2021.
Tamar’s directing and assistant directing credits include:
PHEADRA’S GHOSTS by Emily Renée (2022, ALRA South); ALICE by Emily Renée (Vaults 2020, dir.); MIDNIGHT MOVIE by Eve Leigh (2019, Royal Court Theatre, assistant dir. to director Rachel Bagshaw); VASSA adapted by Mike Bartlett (2019, Almeida, assistant dir. to Tinuke Craig); THE NOISES by Jacqueline Saphra (2019 Old Red Lion, dir.).
Tamar’s dramaturgy credits include:
HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTION by Einat Weizman with Issa Amro (2021, Finborough & Kurve Wustrow, dir. Tommo Fowler); GREAT MEN by Emily Renée (2021/22 Galeria d.Italia, Milan, dir. Fabio Cherstich); ANDROMACHE by Jean Racine (2021, National Theatre Studio, dir. Emily Burns, R&D).