writing & dramaturgy
five wishes
Curated by Nida Rehman
Written and Directed by Tatiana Baccari
2022 // Commissioned by Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Arts and Society
When Mariana finds herself in the intensive care unit battling COVID, she makes a call. Five Wishes is a short play presented in exhibition as an audio play about the power of proxy that examines the endurance of agency both in life and in closeness to death.
Featuring: Sophie Hosna, Ariela Pineda, Kiara Lee and Clark Atkinson.
Dr. Ride's American
Beach House
by Liza Birkenmeier
Directed by Roxanne Fay
Dramaturgy by Tatiana Baccari
Fall 2021 // Jaeb Theater, Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Lighting Design by Jo Averill-Snell
Scenic Design by Rebekah Eugenia Lazaridis
Costume Design by Katrina Stevenson
Production Stage Manager: Matthew Ray
Rehearsal Stage Manager: Teah Banks
Technical Director: Brian Smallheer
Scenic Artist: Tea Roberts
Featuring: Emily Belvo, Susan Haldeman, Leah LoSchiavo, Andresia Moseley.
Produced & Directed by Coral Cohen
BETWEEN THE THREADS: JEWISH WOMEN PROJECT
Co-created by Hannah Goldman, Lea Kalisch,
Luisa Muhr, Daniella Seidl, Laura Lassy Townsend and Tatiana Baccari
Original music by Zoë Aqua
Dramaturg & Script Supervisor Tatiana Baccari
Set Designer Lauren Barber
Lighting Designer Elizabeth M. Stewart
Costume Designer Johanna Pan
Associate Producers Kimberly Dillon & Lucy Powis
JCC of Northern Virginia
June 15-16, 2019
HERE Arts Center
January-February 2019
Between the Threads (Jewish Women Project) is a devised theatre piece about Jewish women in America exploring their relationship to their Judaism. The project is an interdisciplinary work that uses performance as a way to interrogate Jewish identity today by looking to our past and confronting our future. A group of seven female-identified artists explore their personal history to present a collage of varied perspectives on what it means to be perennially in-between: in the intersection of tradition and modernity, power and oppression.
Baccari wrestles with her identity as a “chosen Jew” — a Jew by choice — recalling when together with her Italian mother they used the ocean as a mikvah for their conversion on a South Florida beach . . . What worked best was the drama woven into these different yet universal life stories.
— Washington Jewish Week
Superb . . . The women make direct eye contact with the audience, reaching out for catharsis, and it’s easy to respond to them as they lay their feelings bare with humor and intelligence.
Honest and unflinching . . . It was all beautifully written, sometimes very raw, sometimes hopeful, even humorous.
— Max Berry, On Stage Blog
GHOST PLAYER
Winner of Theater Tampa Bay’s Jeff Norton Dream Grant
Ghost Player takes place on the West Coast of Florida when Denice discovers that she carries the genetic mutation, BRCA, which she may have passed to her daughter, Stephy, who is too busy working on her college thesis to get tested. As tensions rise between mother and daughter, Denice turns to her weekly Mahjong group for support while Stephy finds an unlikely ally at the public library.
An excerpt of Ghost Player was performed at the Jewish Federation of Pinellas County’s annual “Main Event”in 2015
A subsequent workshop and reading was held by Experimental Bitch Presents at Walsh Family Media in 2016