Overview
July 2024, Tara played Queen Margaret in Richard III for the Ovo Festival at the Roman Theatre in St Albans with an international cast from Kuwait, Berlin and London. She was born in Hollywood where her father was based as a professional musician playing with major artists of the day. Tara trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is acclaimed for her work with composer Philip Glass which began in 2007 with Glass and Leonard Cohen. She continued as a principal in his theatre pieces such as Glass's THE BACCHAE with Jonathan Groff at the New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as international concerts at major houses worldwide, and is the only female singer to have recorded an album on Glass's label TARA HUGO SINGS PHILIP GLASS. She can currently be seen in Glass's INFINITY, a spoken word and song piece performed by 5 musicians and Tara, that had its European premiere 2023 at London's Coronet Theatre. The piece will next be seen in New York at LaMama in 2025. ".. As well as an exceptional singer, Tara is an actress with a strong presence and the ability to illuminate the words and music of my work... Philip Glass". Apart from her appearances with Glass, Tara writes her own work. She won "Best One Woman Show 2021" for WHO GOES THERE directed by Peter Francis James for the NY United Solo Festival. Her first one-woman show was directed by ALAN RICKMAN who throughout his life, was instrumental in helping Tara develop many projects. UK Theatre highlights: a 1995 Laurence Olivier nomination for Jenny in THE THREEPENNY OPERA at the Donmar Warehouse, 2000 KURT WEILL SOLO Concert Batignano, Italy, Madame Raquin in THERESE RAQUIN at the Finborough and Park Theatres, ON BORROWED TIME directed by Imelda Staunton, Terry Johnson’s LA CAGE AUX FOLLES at the Chocolate Factory, LEGACY FALLS (Offie nomination for Best Actress) Nirvana in Arthur Kopit's ROAD TO NIRVANA, Traverse Theatre, Lil in HAPPY END and a US Senator in SPIN with Richard Willis. Several films and television, including SILENT WITNESS, KINGSMEN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE, Richard Attenborough’s IN LOVE AND WAR, Paul Greengrass’s UNITED 93, Guillermo Del Toro’s HELLBOY and in 2022 the independent film COTTON SOMETHING. After RADA, Tara began as a leading actress at the renowned Guthrie Theatre Minneapolis for 3 seasons and played roles such as Juliet, Saint Joan and Ophelia, and then, at other prestigious US Theatres as Regan in KING LEAR, Solveig in PEER GYNT, Charlotta in THE CHERRY ORCHARD as well as performing leading roles off-Broadway in New York and BROADWAY playing Hecuba and understudying Sigourney Weaver in MACBETH, in which she was booked to take over from Weaver.