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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.

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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