Tariro (she/her) is an artist through and through.
Whether it’s workshop facilitation or working with the likes of LEXUS, BMX, DFO, Thomas The Tank Engine on voice over jobs, making poetry/spoken word and music with collaborators such as I Hold The Lion’s Paw, being a dramaturg on new Afro-futuristic or working on the business side of the arts to champion communities and independent artists, Tariro lives and breathes creativity. Nominated for an Aria Music Award in 2021 with her collaboration with The Australian Art Orchestra for Best Jazz Album last year and won an APRA AMCOS award for Work of the Year: Electroacoustic/Sound Art, for Closed Beginnings.
After living in Barbados, an island in the Caribbean for a year. Tariro returned to Australia to co-direct Maxine Beneba Clarke’s theatrical production of The Hate Race which premiered at Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne in 2024 and was the associate director of Outer Urban Project’s production ‘The Audition’ which had a season at La Mama Theatre and toured at Bunjil Place and The Bowery Theatre. After nearly five years away from the stage as an actor Tariro was an actor in La Belle Epoque a Black Australian love story of a Congolese man reconciling his present life in Australia with his heritage in the heart of Africa where its children are exploited in the West’s scramble for the DRC’s natural resources and minerals premiering at Theatreworks.
