Sona Tatoyan
writer. performer. producer.
contemporary hakawati.
Sona Tatoyan is a Syrian-Armenian-American writer, performer, producer, and contemporary hakawati.
Her work brings personal narrative, ancestral history, irreverent comedy, live music, and contemplative inquiry into encounters that ask how story can expand perception.
Her theater work AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf) was named among KQED’s Best Bay Area Theater of 2025.
the work
about sona
Born between places, languages, and competing accounts of the world. A practice built on paradox, archive, and contemplation.
modern caravanserai
Modern Caravanserai is a twenty-first-century gathering place where storytelling, live performance, and research meet to expand how we see one another.
Stories can change what we see.
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