Tonya is a Washington DC-based actor, educator, and dialect coach. She has a strong background in Shakespeare and other classical work, comedy, as well as new play development.

Credits include Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, Theater J, Constellation Theatre (Helen Hayes Outstanding Lead Performer nomination for The Skin of our Teeth); Mosiac Theater Company, Solas Nua, 1st Stage, Imagination Stage, Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse, Fulton Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Public Theatre of Maine, Purple Rose Theatre, Human Race Theatre. Dialect coaching credits include Theater J, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co, Round House Theatre, Rep Stage, Imagination Stage, Constellation Theatre, Longacre Lea, Anacostia Playhouse, Levine Music Theatre, and Lumina Studio Theatre.
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Tonya is a company member at Taffety Punk Theatre Company. She is on the theatre faculty at George Washington University,  a lecturer at Catholic University, and is the resident dialect coach at The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts.

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