Tatiana (she/they) is a director and producer of radically hospitable theater and film hailing from Florida’s lesser known (but equally sunny) west coast. They direct new plays and musicals as well as radical reinterpretations of classics.

Tatiana serves as Artistic Director of Experimental Bitch, an NYC-based queer, feminist arts company where she makes badly-behaved new work. This has included collaborations with artists/companies like Nia O. Witherspoon, HERE Arts Center, Diana Oh, The Bushwick Starr, JACK Arts and Samieva Theater.

Recent directing credits include Lear by Young Jean Lee (CMU) and Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph (Jobsite Theater). Tatiana was a 2020-21 Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist, where she directed a site-specific production of Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in Clearwater, Florida. In the 2019-21 SDCF Observership class, Tatiana assisted Pirronne Yousefzadeh on Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (Geva Theatre Center).

An advocate for community-centered programming, Tatiana co-created and 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 in Brooklyn in 2023.

Tatiana received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is currently pursuing an MFA in Directing as a John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (2025). Tatiana will direct Mr. Burns: a post-electric play written by Anne Washburn with music by Michael Friedman for her thesis production in the fall of 2024 and will serve as Asolo Rep’s Directing Fellow in the spring of 2025.

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 am a generative director making new plays, musicals and radical adaptations of classics that misbehave, harnessing art’s soft power to grapple with big questions. The raucous Purim shpiels that I encountered at my Jewish Day School in the ‘90s propelled me toward making rebellious, momentous works of theater that blur the line between stage and audience.

Fostering equitable collaboration with accessibility at the forefront is of the utmost importance to me. I am passionate about innovating theatrical forms to push our field toward a more expansive imagination of how, where, and, most importantly, for whom, theater is created.

Being drawn to theater that experiments with form and embodies stories of queerness, the divine feminine, disability, and intergenerational society, I create rooms of levity and precision. I pursue this as Founding Artistic Director of Experimental Bitch, where I develop contemporary new performance and community programs with TGNC and women artists such as Nia O. Witherspoon, Diana Oh, Anya Pearson and companies that include HERE Arts Center, Bushwick Starr and JACK, among others.

I believe in the director as an enthusiastic coach, a door opener, editor, play doula, and investigative reporter. I come to each play with the preparation required to ask specific, critical questions, the vulnerability required to actively listen to peers, and the courage to imagine new worlds into being.

dream productions

CONTEMPORARY

  • The Flick by Annie Baker

  • 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

  • People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan

  • Pussy Sludge by Gracie Gardner

  • 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

  • West Side Story

CLASSICS

  • Twelfth Night

  • Hamlet

  • The Winter’s Tale

  • Antigone

  • An original adaptation/re-telling of The Bacchae set in a hotel room in DC the night before the insurrection

  • A reimagining of Chekhov’s Three Sisters set in The Villages