Tania Notaro

Tania Notaro is an actor, screenwriter and director from Dublin. She has appeared in TV shows such as AMC's Into The Badlands, CBS' Evidence of Evil and feature films such as Mark O'Connor's Cardboard Gangsters. She is a graduate of Bow Street Actors Academy, The Gaiety School of Acting and Momentum Studios where she studied Meisner. As an actress, she became incredibly disappointed with the lack of diverse roles for working-class and LGBTQ+ women so she wanted to create her own. She has a 1st class Master's degree in Screenwriting for Film & TV from The National film school, IADT, and Warner Brothers offered her a scholarship to do so. In 2020 she was inaugurated into the Warner Brothers Creative Talent team as an exceptional artist and one-to-watch. Her first script Boxed won her the John Boorman Scholarship at Irish Film School and she got to direct with Boorman himself. She is the winner of The Ronan Phelan Writers Award at IndieCork, 2020. Her feature screenplay Elephant earned her one of 10 places on the Nostos Screenwriting retreat in Italy and it also earned her a place on the X-Pollinator Elevator program. She is the recipient of the Dublin Artist Award 2021 from the Dublin Arts Council, the recipient of the Artist Resilience Award 2021 from South County Dublin Arts Council and the recipient of the Agility Award from the Arts Council 2021. She is one of 12 writers selected from all over Europe to participate in the Eureka Series program at the Series Mania Institute in Lille, France. Her TV show Cabaret Cartell is in development with Screen Ireland under the Spotlight scheme. In 2022, she made her directorial debut with her short film Glitterbug which was created under the Actor as Creator Scheme which she also wrote and starred in. She is set to make her second short film Postpartum in association with Virgin Media and it will be launched on the Virgin Media Player in January 2023. She is hoping to make socially conscious films from a female perspective.