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Director/Producer Tamara Ruppart is an award-winning director and producer who has worked in both theater and film. On stage, she has directed Komachi, A Thousand Cranes, The Fantasticks, Strike-Slip, two productions of Velina Hasu Houston’s Kokoro (True Heart), and will direct Broken Story for New York’s White Horse Theater Company in Nov. 2022.
Behind the theatrical scenes, Ms. Ruppart has worked at The Charlotte Repertory Theater (Picasso at the Lapin Agile) and on Broadway (Phantom of the Opera). In television production, she has worked on Mike & Molly (CBS), Sullivan & Son (TBS), My Life As An Experiment (NBC pilot), The Mummy Road Show (National Geographic Television series); Shift (feature), and directed Season 1 of The Kool School (an educational series). In film, Ms. Ruppart has worked on An American Poet’s State of the Union (doc), Alana (short), The Day the Ponies Come Back (feature), 18 Shades of Dust (feature), and she directed Rising Sun, Rising Soul (doc). Ms. Ruppart is currently developing a feature film with writer Velina Hasu Houston.
Ms. Ruppart has a particular affinity for Japan and Japanese culture, after studying Japanese in college and living in Niigata, Japan, teaching English for 15 months after college. In 2001, Ms. Ruppart went on an overland trip from Beijing, through Inner Mongolia, across the Tibetan Plateau, up to Mt. Everest Base Camp, and down into Kathmandu, Nepal. She has also traveled in Southeast Asia and Europe.
Ms. Ruppart has studied Digital Filmmaking at New York Film Academy in Los Angeles as well as Script Supervision and Continuity under Shari Carpenter in New York City. After receiving a scholarship, Ms. Ruppart attended The New School for Drama. Having studied directing with Elinor Renfield, Casey Biggs, Austin Pendleton and Olympia Dukakis, Ms. Ruppart graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Directing. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Davidson College. She is a member of Women in Film (WIF) and the Alliance of Women Directors (AWD).
