Tatyana is currently a PhD Candidate at NYU’s Departments of Comparative Literature and Russian & Slavic Studies. She holds an MA in Individualized Studies (Russian Theatre and Literature, Adaptation Studies) from NYU Gallatin. She is also an alumna of Cornell University, where she received her BA in English, Performing & Media Arts and a minor in Russian.

Currently her research explores the intersections between literature, film, theatre, and dance–with a localized interest in the archival of performance in the Americas and Eastern Europe, and the theorization of production as performance. She is developing a project that synthesizes productions of Alberto Alonso’s Carmen (1967) performed by ballerinas Alicia Alonso and Maya Plisetskaya in the context of political archival of the ephemeral.

As an actor, she has previously trained at Cornell University, The Moscow Art Theatre School (MXAT), T. Schreiber Studio, and the Actors’ Workshop of Ithaca. A classically trained ballet dancer, she has extensive training in Modern, Tap, and Contemporary.

Starting from Cornell University, Tanya has written multiple short screenplays and directed two short narrative films.

Currently, she is developing an auto-ethnographic documentary on the relationship between herself and her mother (also Tatyana) and the cultivation of the garden as a representation of her and her mother’s Ukrainian-American experience.