Tatiana Pandiani is director-choreographer and writer who works in English and Spanish.
Originally from Argentina, Tatiana grew up around milongas, antique stores and dance studios. After an itinerant childhood, she completed her studies in Miami and New York City. Today her work combines text, dance and music and is inspired by Fornes, Bausch, Kahlo, Fosse, Brecht, and Piazzola.
After receiving her Master in Fine Arts degree at Columbia University, Tatiana worked as an associate director for several of Broadway’s most renowned directors such as Rachel Chavkin, Oliver Butler, Sam Gold. She has directed first national Broadway tours, Off Broadway, regionally across the United States, as well as internationally. Her production of Zakiya Markland’s La Negrophilie by Zakiya Markland toured Barbados, Uganda and Rwanda.
Tatiana has co created and developed bilingual musical AZUL (book writer & director-choreographer) which has been programmed at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub (Public Theatre), National Alliance of Music Theatre (NAMT), NMTC at the O’Neill Center, Tofte Lake Center, New York Theatre Workshop, and others.
As a choreographer, she collaborates with Latin Indie musical artist in concerts & music videos. Other recent: Torera (Alley Theatre, Houston), Our Town (Dallas Theatre Center), Blood Wedding (Yale), When My Mama was a Hittite by Melis Aker (Park Theatre, London), Christina by Alexis Sheer (Cleveland Playhouse, workshop), Dike by Hannah Benitez (Urbanite Theatre), Friends with Guns by Stephanie Alison Walker (NYTW, workshop), Nanas by Leonardo Gonzales (LATEA & IATI), Field Awakening by Melis Aker (Signature).
Tatiana has also been developing new plays with Monet Hurst-Mendoza, Rudi Goblen, Domenica Ferraud, Danny Tejera, Reynaldo Piniella and others with the support of institutions such as the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Signature Theatre, Folger Theatre (DC), Long Wharf Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Urbanite Theater, NYTW, Miami New Drama, Westport Country Playhouse, amongst others. These collaborations are her favorite part of the work.
She is on faculty at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and is the New Works Director at Miami New Drama where she oversees play & musical commissions, as well as development programs and workshops. She was a NYTW Directing Fellow and is a recipient of the National Directors Fellowship from the O'Neill Center & the Kennedy Center. Member of SDC. Representation: United Talent Agency & Brillstein Entertainment Partners. MFA: Columbia.