Tatiana (she/they) is a director and creative producer hailing from a town in 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. They were part of the 2019-21 SDCF Observership class, where they assisted Pirronne Yousefzadeh on Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (Geva Theatre Center).
In the summer of 2023, 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 in Brooklyn.
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.
“I make theater that misbehaves, pulses with athleticism, and grapples with big questions.”