Raya Tuffaha

Raya (she/her) is a Palestinian actor, fight director and writer from Seattle. She is an Actor Combatant with the SAFD, and is currently developing ethnographic research on audience-performer power dynamics in staged violence. Her fights have been seen at Latitude Theatre (Miss Holmes), Theatre33 (The Marriage of Figaro), Studio East (Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Ballyhoo Theatre (Carrie the Musical), Theatre4 (The Pillowman), and more. Raya's also training as an intimacy coordinator. She's interested in muscular stories. 

Publications include To All the Yellow Flowers (Golden Antelope Press, 2020), apocalypse blues (2022), as well as with Seattle Opera, and in Mizna Online, Phoebe Journal, Button Poetry, & Succarnochee Review. BA Swarthmore College, add'l ​British American Drama Academy, School of Amman Ballet. www.rayatuffaha.com