Virlana Tkacz [SEP] place of birth
Virlana Tkacz
Virlana Tkacz (born June 23, 1952 in Newark, New Jersey) is the founding director of the Yara Arts Group, a resident company at the world-renowned La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. She was educated at Bennington College and Columbia University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in theatre directing. 
With Yara she created over thirty original theatre pieces that fuse fragments of contemporary poetry and traditional songs, chants, legends and history from East to create an imagistic production with a
in New York: Photographs by Margaret Morton" edited by Virlana Tkacz, Bishkek: University of Central Asia, 2008.
"Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman" by Virlana Tkacz, with Sayan Zhambalov and Wanda Phipps, photographs by Alexander Khantaev, New York: Parabola Books, 2002.
"Ten Years of Poetry from the Yara Theatre Workshops at Harvard" twenty of the best Ukrainian poems from the Yara Workshops in award-winning translations by Virlana Tkacz & Wanda Phipps. The hand-made book was