Tami Canaday
PLAYWRIGHT
Tami's short play
A Real Soap Opera will be part of One Night Stand Theater's "By Popular Demand" evening
Vintage Theatre
1468 Dayton St.
Aurora, Colorado
Sunday, August 11
7:30 p.m.
Tami's experimental play Public Duty, dealing with the ambivalence of the time surrounding the Vietnam war, is published in an anthology by Qutub Minar Review.
Tami's play
No Longer a Maiden is published in Stonecoast Review Literary Journal, Issue 13.
Mrs.Green, a comedic podcast play, can be found at
and on Spotify.
PLAYS
FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
IN THE PRESS
JEREMIAH
"JEREMIAH is a thought provoking play presented from a perspective that I hadn't considered until last night."
—OnStage Colorado
"Producing new and difficult plays can be a boon."
—Denver Post
UNCLE ROOSTER
"The full effect [of Uncle Rooster], like a children's story gone horribly wrong, is a dystopic cartoon world where things don't quite fit together, where value and morality reveal intrinsic dissonances, and any possibility of a peaceful, just resolution disappears."
—Living Arts Chronical
LIVER FOR DINNER
"On press night, the crowd favorite seemed to be Tami Canaday's Liver for Dinner, a surreal play that demonstrates the impact of how something is said. It is intriguing."
—Denver Post
SANTA TELLS A STORY
"Santa [Tells a Story] is an amusing glimpse at an unsettling urban experience."
—Denver Post
BIO
Tami Canaday's stage plays have been performed in the U.S., Canada, and Japan.
Highlights include performances at the Left Theatre, the Changing Scene, the Luminous Group Theatre, Buckham Alley Theatre, Source Theatre, and the Producer’s Club. She was dramaturg and contributing writer for Bingo Boyz: Columbine, which received the Denver Post’s Ovation Award for best new work. Count Down to Zero Theatre in Denver and New York commissioned and produced her play Uncle Rooster. Recently, her play Jeremiah was produced in Denver by Benchmark Theatre.
Tami’s plays have been selected for festivals like the Athena Project, the Western Playwright’s Showcase, the Boulder Acting Group, the New York International Fringe Festival, and the Colorado Women’s Playwright Festival. In addition, her literary work has been featured in The Best Stage Scenes, The Best Women’s Stage Monologues, The Good Ear Review, Young Women’s Monologues from Contemporary Plays, Qutub Minar Review, and the StoneCoast Review among others.
Tami graduated from the University of Nebraska with degrees in English and History. She has a Master of Arts in History from Colorado State University. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild.