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Tara Nicole Hughes

Dancer

“Those performances with him were very special and profound artistic moments for me. I am so grateful to have been a part of his magic.” Tara

Tara Nicole Hughes is a creative force. She has an impressive list of Choreography collaborations including iconic musical films Joker: Folie a’ Deux, Disney’s live action The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins Returns, Nine and Burlesque.

As warm, patient and inspiring as she is talented, Hughes has a particular gift for creating a safe and energizing work environment for actors who may be intimidated by movement. As a result, she’s worked with some of the most brilliant of our time including Daniel Day Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt as well as with music stars Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez.

Tara Nicole Hughes

Tara Nicole Hughes

Other Choreographic credits include, for television, Good Girls Revolt, House of Lies, The Middle, Trophy Wife, Raising Hope and My Name is Earl. Feature films include Kiss of the Spider Woman (Dir. Bill Condon), Good Fortune (Dir. Aziz Ansari), Danny Collins starring Al Pacino (Dir. Dan Fogelman), The Terminal (Dir. Steven Spielberg) and The Next Best Thing (Dir. John Schlesinger).

With Tara’s Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology and her understanding of the healing power of dance, she has created the program INsideOUT , a powerful and practical workshop using meditation, visualization and dance movement to bring more inner peace and well-being.

In 2004, Tara performed with Joe at the Chicago Art Institute and later, for two performances of the same show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco

Learn more about Tara at her web site.

Reviews of Joe’s Work

"[Frank] travels in the emotional landscape of Bergman and Fellini; there's a tension and sense of mystery halfway between Kafka and Chandler... and a satiric edge worthy of Firesign Theatre and Woody Allen... No one else in radio is doing what Frank does."

The Washington Post

"Joe Frank is an original whose work has helped form some of the most eccentric, dark and interesting parts of public radio's personality. "

Terry Gross, Fresh Air

"The world of Joe Frank is a wildly entertaining surrealistic universe...hilarious, unsettling, zany, powerful, moving and perhaps the most unique, inventive and effective use of radio since Orson Welles convinced much of America there was a War of the Worlds."

The L.A. Weekly

"You don't have to close your eyes to appreciate Joe Frank's dense audio universe cascading out of your radio. It helps, though, because there are so many layers - of sound, philosophy, of reality-coursing through his dramas... Come to think of it, after awhile, you won't want to close your eyes because in Frank's short stories for the radio, the tension and pathos are as enveloping as they are intriguing... "

The Washington Post

"Radio's Prince of Darkness Rules the Freeways. [Frank is] alternately dark, bizarre and very funny - but always hard to turn off."

The Wall Street Journal

"Mixing bizarre monologues, multi-sequenced dramatic vignettes and mock-solemn critiques, [Joe Frank's work] is both sophisticated and surreal. A sizable cult has been growing around Frank...a rare radio talent."

The Village Voice

"Joe Frank is an invaluable warrior who stands in defense of our fears, our vanities and our forever-eroding sense of ourselves. He transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation. Sartre would have called it nausea; Frank makes it art."

Spin Magazine

"In an arena in which formats are sacrosanct, Joe Frank has charted new territory with his literate, frequently bizarre, wildly funny essays and parodies... He can be funny, poignant, serious and off the wall - sometimes within the framework of the same piece. Unique is one word to describe it. Brilliant is another."

Los Angeles Times

"To me, he's what radio is really for... his show makes me think he's getting to some great truth... so completely captivating and just unlike anything else."

David Sedaris, writer

"A strange, different, wondrously offbeat, frequently hilarious, altogether brilliant piece of work..There's never been anything quite like it...Joe Frank is an audio Fellini."

The Los Angeles Times