‏Tanya Selvaratnam‏

Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Long Beach, CA, Tanya Selvaratnam is a producer, writer, actor, and activist based in New York City and Portland, Oregon. Her films have played on television channels including HBO, IFC, PBS, and the Sundance Channel; at festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Locarno, and Berlin; and theatrically around the world including two features at the prestigious Film Forum in New York. She is the author of THE BIG LIE: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock. Her writing has been in Vogue, Bust, Paper, xoJane, Huffington Post, Pop and Politics, the Toronto Review, Art Basel Magazine, Tokion, the Journal of Law and Politics, on Women's eNews and CNN. She has produced projects by Gabri Christa, Chiara Clemente, Catherine Gund, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, and Jed Weintrob; and has appeared in shows by The Wooster Group, The Builders Association, Mike Iveson Jr., Sibyl Kempson, and Andrew Ondrejcak, among others. Tanya has been a fellow at Yaddo and Blue Mountain Center. As an activist, she has worked with the Ms. Foundation, NGO Forum on Women, Third Wave Fund, and World Health Organization. She serves on the advisory boards of The Wooster Group and The DO School and the board of Boom Arts. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Chinese language and history from Harvard University.