Tatyana is currently a PhD Candidate at NYU’s Departments of Comparative Literature and Russian & Slavic Studies.

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.

Tanya has written numerous short screenplays and directed two short narrative films.