Talaya Delaney, librettist, is an award-winning playwright and teacher who currently works as a research advisor and lecturer at Harvard University. Talaya was chosen as a playwright in residence at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, where her play, The Proposal premiered in a festival of new writing. Her play, Somebody’s Sons, won an Equity premiere at the Main Street Theater in Houston and her play Haarlem Berlin received a production at Vassar College with Obie Award Winners composer Dave Malloy and director Rachel Chavkin. Her plays have been produced in the United States, Germany, and Ireland. She has received grants to support her work from the Humboldt Foundation, the Irish Arts Council, and the Javits Foundation among others, and has been a resident artist at MacDowell and Yaddo. She holds a Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard University and two master’s degrees, one in dramatic writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the other in U.S. history from Harvard University. Her play, House in the North Country, was published in the fall 2011 issue of The Kenyon Review.
Talaya Delaney
Studios
Garland
Talaya Delaney worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…