BIOGRAPHY:
Tatyana Kot (Director/Actor) was born in the Soviet Union (Kazakhstan), trained to be a ballerina, studied History and Archaeology in university and worked with people with disabilities for 14 years. Breast cancer survivor and advocate. Best actress winner at Planet Connections theater festivity, Midtown international theater festival and First prize at Secondo Theater festival (Zurich, Switzerland) multiple nominee and winner of New York Innovative Theater Awards. She has been a company member of Blessed Unrest, a teaching artist and will be going on tour with the critically acclaimed show “The Singing Windmills” written by Roman Freud. A VR immersive documentary about her life with cancer NORMAL DAY was internationally released in 2018. Tatyana discovered an illegal copy of “Master and Margarita” in the back of her parents’ bookcase when she was 12, read it and it has been her favorite book since.
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
Ballet training-Russia
Theatre training-Russia
Studied History and Archeology
OTHER SKILLS:
Fluent in Russian