Photo: Corinne Louie

Tatiana (she/they) is a director, writer and producer making tragicomic theater and films that explore grief, disability, dissent, and intergenerational change by connecting with audiences through the inexplicable. Their directing includes assistant/associate work, new play development and production, and adapting classics to meet our socio-political moment.

Directing highlights include the world premiere of Radio Man by Sarah Groustra (The Paradise Factory/Underbelly Theatre), Then Act Like It by Savannah Lyons Anthony (Writing is Live Fest/Brown University), Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play by Anne Washburn (Carnegie Mellon), Lear by Young Jean Lee (Carnegie Mellon) and Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph (Jobsite Theater). Tatiana served as Asolo Rep’s 2025 Directing Fellow where they assisted Peter Amster on the regional premiere of Goodnight, Oscar by Doug Wright.

Tatiana serves as Artistic Director of Experimental Bitch, developing badly-behaved new performance with artists/companies such as Nia O. Witherspoon, HERE Arts Center, Diana Zaza Oh, The Bushwick Starr, JACK Arts and Samieva Theater. An advocate for disability visibility, Tatiana produced Bitchin’ Heals, a weekend of workshops, performances and artist markets dedicated to uplifting disabled joy by centering disabled artists and accessibility, co-presented with JACK Arts and Experimental Bitch in 2023.

Tatiana received their MFA in directing in 2025 from Carnegie Mellon University. They are currently a Drama League Stage Directing Fellow, working with Red Bull Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Stage & Film, and the Playwrights’ Center.

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I am passionate about innovating theatrical forms, pushing our field toward a more expansive imagination of how, where, and, most importantly, for whom, theater is created.

Artist Statement

I believe in the theater’s epic soft power to grapple with society’s most pressing questions. Fostering equitable collaboration with accessibility and artistic rigor at the forefront are the primary pillars of my artistic process.

My work leans toward the tragicomic, making the absurd poignant and the heartbreaking unexpectedly funny. I’m drawn to stagecraft that highlights theatrical construction, showing seams and artifice, so the audience is reminded that what’s being made is happening in real time, by actual people, in a shared civic space.

I seek generative collisions between highbrow and lowbrow that harness the rigor of dance, film, and visual art alongside the gloriously trashy kitsch. I live for spectacle, but I’m equally interested in the quietly transformative power of spectatorship: what happens to us when we become aware of our own looking, interpretive habits, and social dynamics in a room.

My rehearsal rooms run on collective curiosity, supported risk and building cultures of consent. I’ve been known to table-work on our feet, use games when actors are stuck, and craft ensemble-oriented transitions as connective tissue. I build active consent through community agreements and restorative justice/accessibility models I’ve learned from Theatrical Intimacy Education, Seema Sueko, Daniel Banks, Christine Bruno, and Claudia Alick. It is this combination of rigorous world-building in design and collaborative ensemble-building in the rehearsal room that inspires me to make work that feels distinctly alive, cohesive, and filled with poignant, idiosyncratic moments of humor and heartbreak on stage.

dream productions

CONTEMPORARY

  • Indecent by Paula Vogel

  • Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery

  • Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi

  • Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch

  • In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl

  • Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George

  • People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan

  • Dance Nation by Clare Barron

  • Dr. Ride’s American Beach House by Liza Birkenmeier

  • The Cost of Living by Martyna Majok

MODERN

  • A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

  • MUD by Maria Irene Fornés

  • Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill

  • Machinal by Sophie Treadwell

MUSICALS

  • Cabaret

  • Spring Awakening

  • Fun Home

  • Next to Normal

  • Heathers

CLASSICS

  • An adaptation of The Bacchae set in a hotel room in DC the night before the insurrection (in progress)

  • A reimagining of Chekhov’s Three Sisters set in The Villages, the largest retirement community in the USA (in progress)

  • Twelfth Night

  • The Winter’s Tale