press & recognition

“Wondrous … shattering theater.”

Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle

“An expansive, visionary performance … a visual and virtuosic standout.”

Nicole Gluckstern, KQED

“an engaging tour-de-force …”

Pina Piccolo, theatrius

AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf) at Potrero Stage, San Francisco — Sona Tatoyan, April 2025

AZAD(the rabbit and the wolf) production photograph · potrero stage · april 2025

“The Best Bay Area Theater We Saw in 2025”KQED, December 2, 2025

“‘Azad’ Review: The Armenian Genocide and Puppets Make for Shattering Theater”San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2025

“AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf) Unleashes People and Puppets”Theatrius, April 16, 2025

“Puppets Break Silence of Armenian Genocide at Golden Thread”San Francisco Chronicle, April 4, 2025

AZAD shadow puppet performance with live oud

azad Storytelling · University of Michigan · 2024

profiles, interviews, and conversations

“Quantum Healing: When Art, Tech & Resilience Meet”MIT Open Documentary Lab, 2025

“The Places We Are Broken Could Be Our Greatest Source of Empowerment”CivilNet, 2024

“Sona Tatoyan | Storyteller”Qisetna, 2024

“The Storyteller”Wake Forest Magazine, 2024

“She Searched for Her Family’s Century-Old Legacy in War-Torn Syria. Inside an Old Trunk, She Found It.”Los Angeles Daily News, 2022

“Countering Destruction With Creation: How Azad, a Multimedia Performance, Changed My Life”The Armenian Weekly, 2022

“Storytelling Alchemy With Sona Tatoyan”HowlRound, 2025

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