Tara Sissom

A graduate of Elon University, with a BFA in Music Theatre, Tara Sissom is an actress, musician, playwright, improviser and dancer originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Raised in Orlando, Florida; she is an Core Company Ensemble Member of the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, California and an original member of The New Colony, in Chicago, Illinois. Tara has spent more than 10 years onstage with B Street Theatre. She has received 2 Joseph Jefferson Awards: in 2010 Non AEA wing: Best Original Incidental Music for The New Colony's That Sordid Little Story (with Henry Riggs, Chris Gingrich and Thea Lux) and in 2012 AEA wing: with the Goodman Theatre's production of The Iceman Cometh, for Best Ensemble. She played Pearl in both iterations of the Goodman's The Iceman Cometh in both Chicago and BAM in Brooklyn, NYC. She wrote Pancake Breakfast and co-wrote 11:11 with Evan Linder, both developed and produced in world premieres with The New Colony. Her play Treatment co-written with Stephanie Altholz and Amy Kelly premiered on the Mainstage at the B Street Theatre in 2017, a semi-autobiographical piece in which the 3 playwrights played fictional versions of themselves. Tara works year-round administratively and also teaches performing arts to adults and children at the B Street Theatre, in it's new home The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts in Sacramento. She plays ukulele, banjo, toy piano, harmonica, tambourine and 5 Card Texas Hold 'Em.