Tara Branham

Tara Branham is a freelance director and producer of theatre and opera living in Chicago.

[Tara Branham @TaraBDirect]

@neilhimself I'm so glad you think so! Any chance you'll be in the Bay Area on July 30th? We've got seats for opening with your name on them...

[Tara Branham @TaraBDirect]

Efraín Solis @solisef as Father/Other Father

[Tara Branham @TaraBDirect]

Hey #operatwitter I’m directing the American premiere of @TurnageTime @coolguy9244 opera Coraline, based on the book by @neilhimself , produced by @westedgeopera in collaboration with Papermoon Opera Productions. Follow along for creepy updates on this opera- cast below!

[Tara Branham @TaraBDirect]

Kendra Boom as Coraline

[The Black Abolitionist Network @BlkAbolitionChi]

Chicago has more police per capita than any other major U.S. city but it hasn’t made us any safer. It’s time to invest in treatment, not trauma. #DefundCPD #TakeBackTheBudget

[Tara Branham @TaraBDirect]

What @ZacariasM said. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Tara Branham @TaraBDirect]

The Mutual Aid Mourning and Healing Project offers free support to people struggling w grief during the pandemic. If you're grieving a recent loss & would like to speak to a therapist, a death doula or clergy, please reach out. #WeGrieveTogether #200KGone https://t.co/qJyzoGxCrb

[Ejeris Dixon @ejeris]

It's really important for folks to keep their eye on what's happening with the LAPD's blaming Black organizers, abolitionists, and anti-police violence organizers for the shooting of two cops this weekend.

[The Chicago Alliance @CAARPRNow]

Fill out the survey to let @chicagosmayor know that we demand that the city #DefundCPD and #FundOurCommunities.

Chicago's budget currently gives more money to CPD than to public health & community services COMBINED. That ain't right!!

*ENDS TODAY*

https://t.co/kk2zktkO4M

[BLMChicago @BLMChi]

Today is the last day to fill out the city's budget survey to say #DefundCPD & fund our communities! Organize a friend to fill it out & share these graphics today & take 5 min to fill it out yourself if you haven't already. https://t.co/rapFAfled3

[dramaturgically it tracks @YasminZacaria]

FYI: NYT is a cop. You can't just throw a BIPOC critic in the masthead.

What culture shift will happen in this pause and search?

BB wasn't a one-man operation of ableist, sexist, racist theatre writing 👀

[Isiah's Soul..... @thought_poet77]

Y’all please RT this?

I’m a photographer/organizer from Chicago falling under some hardships, also I have to finally repair my camera from being damaged at protests..

Anything is appreciated..

Here’s my cash app and Venmo
$thoughtpoet
@thought_poet77

https://t.co/4GWOJcWak3

[The Black Abolitionist Network @BlkAbolitionChi]

40% of the city budget goes to CPD while Black & poor communities get told year after year there is no money to fund necessities like housing, healthcare, & education. Take 5 min & fill out this survey to tell the city that we want to defund CPD & refund communities! #defundcpd

[BraveSpaceAlliance @BraveSpaceChi]

Today, we’ll be supporting Chicago s*x Wor*ers working towards equitable working conditions in the Chicagoland area. Racial sensitivity training, the protection of Black lives, and the restorative justice process is something we can commit to as a community.#StripperStrikeChicago

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

“Why can’t people pick their race?”

I don’t know for some reason the cops see our skin color & shoot before we have a chance to tell them we’ve chosen not to be Black that day.

[IL Immigrant Rights @icirr]

Who shuts it down? WE shut it down! The ICE "Academy" has been shut down for 2020. This is a HUGE win for our communities. Read the statement from ICIRR, @CAARPRNow, and @OCAD_CHI here: https://t.co/ZpOS11JKtV

[Tara Branham @TaraBDirect]

This whole thread. There is no such thing as objectivity.

[dramaturgically it tracks @YasminZacaria]

"Unlike minstrelsy or blackface in the United States, this make up was done as a sign of empathy and realism."

OBJECTIVITY IS WHITE SUPREMACY @NPR

This is UNACCEPTABLE reporting. You cannot divorce the Black experience from "A Raisin in the Sun."
https://t.co/FNuTwCuv4K

[Tara Branham @TaraBDirect]

If you are not already following @harikondabolu the trials and tribulations of parenting are definitely bringing me joy right now. #fatherhood #parentingtips

[Hari Kondabolu @harikondabolu]

“If he’s screaming, it means he’s breathing.”

-ME, A NEW FATHER, CHANGING MY FEELINGS ON CRYING BABIES

[Tara Branham @TaraBDirect]

August 30: Trump retweets a false claim that only 9,000 Americans have died of the coronavirus.
#WeGrieveTogether #TrumpKenosha