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 assisting/associate work, developing/premiering new plays, 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 (CMU), Lear by Young Jean Lee (CMU) and Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph (Jobsite Theater). Most recently, Tatiana was 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 as a John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University.

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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 am a generative director of theater and film. My work centers on new plays, musicals and radical adaptations of classics that misbehave, harnessing art’s soft power to grapple with society’s most pressing questions. Fostering equitable collaboration with accessibility at the forefront is the primary pillar of my artistic process. I am passionate about innovating theatrical and filmic forms to push our field toward a more expansive imagination of how, where, and, most importantly, for whom, art is created.

I create rooms of levity and precision.

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

  • 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