Tatyana-Marie Carlo (ella/she) is a proud Puerto Rican director from Miami who received her MFA in Directing from Brown University and her BFA in Acting from New World School of the Arts.

As the former Artistic Director of Micro Theater Miami, Tatyana integrated English-language plays where previously all the plays were performed in Spanish. While leading the creation process of 15-minute plays in 20' x 8' shipping containers she was also able to establish Micro-theater for Kids which was never seen in the United States. Soon after she became the Associate Director of Seminole Theatre, a performing arts center in Homestead FL. In her role she aided in the reopening of the theater after a 40-year closure.

She has directed a diverse body of works including: Sueño and Marisol by José Rivera, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez,  Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, several bilingual adaptations of Shakespeare with La Bulla Collective, She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen, References to Salvador Dali Make me Hot by Jose Rivera, Fade by Tanya Saracho, Subliminal by Ren Dara Santiago, Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes, The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis,  A Little Less Lonely at Dallas Theater Center, Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Behold, a Negress by Jacqueline E. Lawton, Carmela Full of Wishes by Alvaro Saar Rios, Fedra, Queen of Haiti by J. Nicole Brooks, Paris by Eboni Booth, The Inferior Sex by Jacqueline E. Lawton, Vámonos by Julissa Contreras, La Gringa by Carmen Rivera, Pride & Prejudice by Kate Hamill, La Broa' (Broad Street) by Orlando Hernández,  Far Far Better Things by Geetha Reddy, and Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías.
Most recently, she directed La Egoísta by Erlina Ortiz at Philadelphia Theatre Company, in association with Edgewood Entertainment.
Tatyana is currently producing an event with Nuyorican Poets Cafe and directing A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company.

One of "2023 Broadway Women to Watch" at Broadway Women's Fund.
​2019 Matt Harris Directing Fellow at Williamstown Theater Festival.
2021 Drama League Public Works Fellow.​
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