Raya Tuffaha

Raya (she/her) is a Palestinian actor, fight director and writer from Seattle. She is an Advanced 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 Union Arts Center (the aves, A Midsummer Night's Dream), Renton Civic Theatre (Dracula), Latitude Theatre (Miss Holmes), Theatre33 (The Marriage of Figaro), Rainy Day Artistic Collective (The Pillowman), Ballyhoo Theatre (Pippin, Carrie the Musical), 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. Arab America's 30 Under 30. BA Swarthmore College, add'l ​British American Drama Academy, School of Amman Ballet. www.rayatuffaha.com