Tatiana (she/they) is a director, writer and producer of theater and film. A Chronically-ill Queer Jew from the South, Tatiana makes visceral theater that embodies stories at the intersections of disability, queerness, faith, feminism, and intergenerational society. Their directing experience ranges from new play development and devised theater to classical texts reimagined. Tatiana serves as Artistic Director of Experimental Bitch, where she creates nd produces badly-behaved new performance. 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 Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play by Anne Washburn (CMU), Lear by Young Jean Lee (CMU) and Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph (Jobsite Theater). Tatiana is Asolo Rep’s 2025 Directing Fellow where they will assist Peter Amster on the regional premiere of Goodnight, Oscar by Doug Wright. Tatiana was a 2020-21 Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist, where they 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).

A fierce advocate for community-centered programming underpinned by a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, 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 will receive her MFA in Directing as a John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University 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 society’s most pressing 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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