Tonya Goltsev (she/they) is a theatre-maker, educator, visual artist, and director based in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up between California and Moscow, she trained at the American Conservatory of Theatre in San Francisco. Her studies took her to New York and Berlin, and in 2020, she earned a BFA in Acting from the  Experimental Theatre Wing and a minor in Film Production, at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Tonya’s artistic influences include training with theatre and movement practitioners such as Enrico Stolzenburg, Monika Gossman, Kevin Kuhlke, K.J. Holmes, and Ishmael Houston-Jones. Previously, she taught theatre at Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory in the Bay Area, and developed Arts and STEM curricula at Curious Jane in Brooklyn. In 2023, she started the theatre program at The Ephyras, where she teaches acting, improv, and devised theatre in weekly classes and summer programs. Passionate about fostering spaces for laughter, creativity, and collaborative storytelling, Tonya is dedicated to empowering young performers through movement-based theatre.