About
Tai Woodville is a Portland based poet, writer, performer and singer/songwriter.
Tai Woodville was born Thaïs "Tai" Carmen Corina Woodville Albert in 1980. She grew up in Southern California, the only child of actors Kate Woodville ("Star Trek") and Edward Albert ("Butterflies Are Free"). Her grandparents are actors Eddie Albert ("Roman Holiday," "Green Acres") and Margo ("Leopard Man," "Lost Horizon"). Margo Albert founded the still flourishing Plaza de la Raza, a non-profit cultural arts center for children in Los Angeles, emphasizing connection to, and celebration of, Latin heritage. Tai grew up with a close appreciation of her Mexican lineage on her father's side. Her home environment also fostered appreciation for nature, spirituality & the arts.
Woodville studied literature and writing at UCSB's College of Creative Studies, from which she graduated with a bachelor of arts in creative writing in 2002.
In 2003 she formed the indie art rock band, Sugar in Wartime, with Johann Wagner and Ronnie Hanks. The band enjoyed an active local following, playing regularly at classic Los Angeles fixtures like The Derby, The Mint and The Whisky A Go Go. Sugar in Wartime released the album "Out of the Woods" in 2007. The band broke up in 2008 when Woodville moved to Portland, Oregon--although they recorded several unreleased albums, which will someday be archivally released.
In 2010, Tai started her long running blog, PARALLAX: Exploring The Architecture of Reality.
In 2013, Woodville joined forces with A. Walker Spring to write and co-star in a musical, "Aika & Rose," which played for two weeks to sold out shows and positive local reviews at the Headwater Theater.
Finishing Line Press published Tai's poetry collection, "POLLEN", in 2011. Between 2014-2017 Visitant Lit featured Woodville as a monthly guest poet. In 2016 Tai's poem "Winter Fruit," published by Visitant Lit, received a Pushcart Nomination.
2014 saw the release of "HER ANIMAL INHERITANCE," a poetry collection co-authored with Alissa Hattman and Sara Jackson-Holman.
In 2019, Woodville, Hattman & Jackson-Holman expanded their collaboration into a video poem, "HER ANIMAL INHERITANCE II," published by the Atticus Review--a short film featuring the authors and their work, filmed at Seaview, Oregon's, historic Sou' Wester.
Woodville is currently hard at work finishing a novel, a memoir and a conceptual electronic album under the moniker Flight Call. Follow her in-process shares, the journey of an artist, on instagram: @taiwoodville
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