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TALIA FOSSUM-WERNICK
I'm Talia, a versatile storyteller crafting compelling narratives for stage and screen. I am a New York City-based, Twin Cities-raised, Philadelphia-born, and Syracuse-trained artist (open to adding more major cities to my bio). My playwriting and directorial debut, The Lolita Apologies, premiered at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2025, received 4-star reviews, and was deemed FringeReview’s “Hidden Gem” of the Fringe. I have performed and created original work in NYC venues such as New York Theatre Festival, The Tank, The PIT, and Theatre 68. I received my BFA in Acting from Syracuse University, and I also studied Shakespeare’s Globe in London, where I played Don Pedro in my third production of Much Ado About Nothing (all, somehow, set in the ‘80s). Let’s work together!
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The Lolita Apologies
by Talia Fossum-Wernick

Written and directed by Talia Fossum-Wernick, The Lolita Apologies premiered at The 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it received 4 star reviews and was deemed FringeReview's "Hidden Gem" of the Fringe. The Lolita Apologies returns to the stage in New York City at The Tank Theater in August 2026.
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The Lolita Apologies follows a frustrated young woman having a series of imagined conversations with famous men whose poor adaptations of Lolita have done Nabokov's story and women at large a great disservice. As the play progresses, she is forced to reckon with her personal relationships with men, her desire for atonement, and, ultimately, a need for healing.

Every woman deserves an apology.

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"A tightly written two-hander that combines theatrical minimalism with
thematic boldness"
- FringeReview
"The kind of theatre that provokes conversation in the bar afterward and lingers in your thoughts days later"
- FringeReview
"A worthy piece of theatre"
- TheatreWeekly
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