Yarger trained for three years in the Broadway League’s Producer Development Program, completed the Commercial Theater Institute’s Producing Three-Day Training and produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene that toured nationally and closed with an off-Broadway Showcase run.
She’s working on several plays and screenplays. She co-wrote a Christian musical version of A Christmas Carol which played to sold-out audiences of over 3,000 in Vermont and was awarded the 2000 Vermont Bessie (theater and film awards) for “People’s Choice for Theatre.” She also has written two other dinner theaters, sketches for church services and devotions for Christian artists.
Theater critic and freelance writer Lauren Yarger has written, directed and produced numerous shows and special events for both secular and Christian audiences. She served in women and prayer ministries for twenty years before becoming a full-time writer and speaker. Tessa holds a Master of Divinity from Yale, where she was elected as the co-chair of the Evangelical Fellowship at the Divinity School for one year. Her conversion to Christianity in her twenties changed the course of her life forever. She then moved to England, where she survived boarding school for girls and fell in love with Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, before moving to the United States permanently. Tessa was born in the Middle East and lived there for the first fourteen years of her life. The Way Home was chosen by Moody Radio SFL for their summer of 2020 book study. Tessa’s first book-length Bible study, The Way Home: God’s Invitation to New Beginnings, based on the book of Ruth, was released in June, 2020, alongside optional videos of the same title. Harvest of Rubies was a finalist for the 2013 ECPA Christian Book Award for fiction. In 2011, after publishing her first novel, Pearl in the Sand, Tessa was named New Author of the Year by the FamilyFiction-sponsored Reader’s Choice Awards. Tessa Afshar is the bestselling author of biblical and inspirational historical fiction, including Land of Silence, which won an INSPY Award and was voted by Library Journal as one of the top five Christian fiction titles of 2016, and Harvest of Gold, which won a Christy Award in the Historical Romance category.
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