Taya Dixon as Mariane

Taya Dixon (she/her/hers) – Taya received her B.F.A in Performance from Southern Oregon University. She was also the 2022 winner of the Yale Young Native Actors Award in memory of Misty Upham. You may have seen her recently in Convergence (as Dee) at Oregon Origins Project; and Our Utopia (as Columbia) at Bag&Baggage. Other roles include: Midsummer Night’s Dream (as Demetrius); King Henry IV pt. 1-2 and Henry V (as Westmerland);and Two Gentlemen of Verona (as Lucetta) at Original Practice Shakespeare; The Muskrat (as Bee); 12 Angry Indians (as Juror 12); and Butterfly (as Ket) for the Yale Indigenous Playwright Festival. Also Hedda Gabler (as Aunt Julia); Love’s Labour’s Lost (as Berowne); Silkworms (Teresa); and Into the Woods (as Jack’s Mother) all at the Oregon Center for the Arts. Taya is currently a substitute teacher in Hillsboro, and absolutely loves it. Taya loves singing, photography, making people laugh, and telling meaningful stories. She would like to thank her family for always telling her to reach for her dreams (even if it means watching her talk to herself all day long, and quote movies and TV shows that she deems “the peak of comedy”).