About Me
Hi, I'm Tara P. Nyingjè 寜婕 -- an actor and theatre-maker based in New York City.
I'm the co-founder of SpArkling Theatre Studio and Stage Director of AAAAH!Culture. I'm a graduate from New York University Tisch School of the Arts majoring in Drama with a focus on Experimental Theatre and Screen-Acting.
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If you ever come across the name Sophia (Jiening) Zhu, that's also me, just before the name caught up with who I've become.
My artistic practice is rooted in physical theatre and devised theatre, guided by a deep reverence for the body as a vessel of memory, emotion, and transformation. As a performer, director, and playwright, I explore how movement, silence, and rhythm can reveal what words cannot -- tracing the unseen desires, contradictions, and longings that live beneath the surface of human experience.​
Beyond the stage, I also move through life as a yoga instructor, model, and host, all of which are extensions of the practice of presence. Whether guiding breath, embodying shape, or holding a shared moment, I see those roles as continuous ways of being attentive -- to people, to space, and to the inner landscape of feeling.
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