He has written and directed numerous plays, including Pot Mom (which won a Pen West Award), Teen Girl, Bitter Women, Tent Show, and Coyote Woman.
Tanner also wrote, with then-partner Andy Daley, Zombie Attack, which ran for ten years at the Cast Theater in Hollywood, and has since had numerous revivals.
Tanner was resident playwright of the Cast Theater which was originally run by the late Ted Schmitt and Dana Gibson.
[1] His many other projects have included doing a weekly late-night live comedy serial called The Strip starring, among others, John Waters luminary Mink Stole, and being a staff writer on television's Gilmore Girls and the short-lived cult favorite Love Monkey, and directing the yearly Christmas satire Bob's Office Party.
[4][5] Voice Lessons received its East Coast premiere at the Mad Horse Theater Company in Portland, Maine, opening for a limited run on March 22, 2010.