Awards & Acknowledgements
2026 OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE - SPREAD
DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD NOMINATIONS:
2026 OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY - SPREAD
2026 OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY - SPREAD
2026 DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD - SPREAD
2023 INDUSTRY WOMEN TO WATCH
2023 8 BEST OFF-BROADWAY SHOWS - VÁMONOS
DRAMA LEAGUE
2021 PUBLIC WORKS FELLOW
WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL
2019 MATT HARRIS DIRECTING FELLOW
Primary Trust by Eboni Booth at Trinity Rep.
“Trinity Rep’s production of Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust, directed with gentle precision by resident company member Tatyana-Marie Carlo, offers a softly illuminated evening of theatre, one that locates grace in the smallest human gestures…Carlo’s direction leans into the play’s intimacy. She trusts the silence, the hesitations, the small ruptures in Kenneth’s emotional armor. The result is a production that never forces its metaphors. Instead, it lets the audience arrive at them naturally: that imaginary friends can be the voices we need most; that hard work can be a lifeline; that kindness, even from strangers, can alter a life’s trajectory.” - Primary Trust at Trinity Rep Finds the Extraordinary Inside an Ordinary Life, The Providence Eye
SPREAD by Jesús I. Valles at Intar Theatre
“This very powerful work had direction by Tatyana-Marie Carlo. As the audience sat in an intimate classroom setting, it’s as if we were eavesdropping on these boys’ conversations and their troubled home lives.” - SPREAD at Intar Covered a lot of Emotional Ground, New York Amsterdam News
“The cast of Intar Theatre’s Spread—Daniel Bravo Hernández, Ricardy Fabre, Danny Gómez, Ishmael Gonzalez, and Jaden Perez—for creating warm camaraderie and individual vulnerability, bringing heft to Jesús I. Valles’s sharply observant and deeply compassionate coming-of-age tale of adolescents bravely facing challenges, current and future.” - 2026 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
2026 DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD NOMINATIONS:
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A PLAY
DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens at Trinity Rep.
"The company has gone from a theater that seats 550 at maximum to one that holds 3,000-plus patrons...Yet director Tatyana-Marie Carlo and a talented cast fill the space to overflowing with joy, spirit and heart that reaches into the farthest rows.
This “Carol” is comfortingly traditional. It begins with a character identified as Reader doing just that: reading Dickens’ novella to Reader Kid, quoting the original text. Good to be reminded how beautiful the language is in this tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and the lessons learned from visits by the ghost of former business partner Jacob Marley and those from Christmas Past, Present and Future. Not for the first time, Trinity’s Scrooge is a woman, and company member Anne Scurria is pitch-perfect in the role... Scurria leads a cast that brings depth to supporting roles, from the love in the Cratchit family, barely surviving on Bob Cratchit’s salary as Scrooge’s clerk, to Fred, Scrooge’s nephew and emotional opposite. The show runs a tight two hours, including intermission, but there is time for every character’s personality to play a part." - Trinity Rep Once Again Delivers with Re-Tooled A Christmas Carol, The Independent
La Egoísta by Erlina Ortiz at Philadelphia Theatre Company
Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías at Dorset Theatre Festival
"The Dorset Theatre Festival production is light summer entertainment featuring actors who make the laugh lines sparkle...Director Tatyana-Marie Carlo is impressively moderate in making each character sympathetic. Viewers can't take sides because each side is worthy, and fairness itself becomes an elusive goal...Squabbles with neighbors can bring out one's most primal instincts. The characters in Native Gardens become buffoons, but not before they prove that there's nothing people fight harder for than property and cultural identity." - Theatre Review: Native Gardens, Dorset Theatre Festival, Seven Days Independent
"La Egoísta alternates between her stand-up routines and the push-and-pull of sibling drama, with creative staging that ensures a mic stand is never too far. Merci was confident and commanding with Josefina’s mic...they also passed for the quick-pivoting stagecraft of a budding comic trying to test and push the audience...The play shined when Josefina’s stand-up made the theater feel more like a comedy club. And all jokes aside: the show made me want to call my own my brother." - In La Egoísta, a Philly-raised Comedian Confronts Her Selfishness - The Philadelphia Inquirer
La Broa by Orlando Hernández & Marta V. Martínez at Trinity Rep.
"Plays whose theatrical narratives and cast of characters are built from historical and archival materials have been called “testimony’s ambitious sister” by the late South African Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu. They not only provide a voice for ordinary, often underrepresented people who have lived through extraordinary circumstances, but do so with creative embellishment and dramatic flair. And so they have the great potential to break stereotypes, enhance understanding, and foster empathy by being entertaining as well as informative." - Trinity Rep’s La Broa delivers a love letter to the Founding Families of La Comunidad Latina of Providence, The Boston Globe
"Currently on Trinity Rep’s Dowling Theater stage is a fine example of this: the world premiere production of “La Broa’,” escrito por Orlando Hernández y bajo la dirección de Tatyana-Marie Carlo. This locally sourced work esta’ inspirada en, and adapted from, the sizable collection of Marta V. Martínez’s oral histories of the Spanish-speaking Mexicanas, Guatemaltecos, Colombianos, y Dominicanos quien se instaló en Providence, R.I., in the mid-20th century." - Trinity Rep’s La Broa delivers a love letter to the Founding Families of La Comunidad Latina of Providence, The Boston Globe
Pride & Prejudice by Kate Hamill at Hartford Stage
“The 60th anniversary season of Hartford Stage is off to a crowd-pleasing start. Playwright and actress Kate Hamill specializes in lively, contemporary adaptations of classic novels. Her bright and fun take on Jane Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice is given a fully frenetic realization by director Tatyana-Marie Carlo. The cast is having so much fun it all feels quite infectious.” - A Pride & Prejudice to be Proud Of, New Haven Review
Pride & Prejudice Moves from Parodic to Romantic at Hartford Stage, The Hartford Courant
Vámonos by Julissa Contreras at Intar Theatre
"An excellent reminder that some of the absolute best productions in New York can be found in smaller off-Broadway theaters, Julissa Contreras’s electrifying drama Vámonos had its world premiere at INTAR. It told the story of the subtle, and not-so-subtle, effects of trauma on a Dominican family living in the Bronx in the wake of 9/11. Tatyana-Marie Carlo directed a phenomenally talented ensemble in a bilingual production that captured the family’s everyday life with uncanny realism on a set that was precisely detailed, right down to the green can of Keebler “Export Sodas” on the counter. The production delivered a dramatic wallop through top-notch performances and brilliant direction that showed how you can make big theater on a small stage." - The 8 Best Off-Broadway Shows of 2023, TheaterMania
The Inferior Sex by Jacqueline E. Lawton at Trinity Rep.
“Trinity Artistic Director Curt Columbus said in a statement that "Lawton’s beautiful, comic take on the historic events of 1972 is a rare theatrical gem." "It is a story populated entirely by women, and it centers the story on their struggles to make a world of their own," Columbus added. "The production, helmed by our brilliant company member Tatyana-Marie Carlo, is at turns funny, serious, and straight-up glamorous.”” - The Inferior Sex, The Westerly Sun
“Much of the play, which is in English and Spanish, is taken up with magical realism-style scenes in which Carmela envisions what it would be like if her wishes were to come true. Director Tatyana-Marie Carlo uses subtle shifts in acting style, lighting and music to capture these dream sequences. And Carmela directly addresses the audience — like Hamlet, she's a protagonist who misses her dad and chats with us about it — to draw us into her thought process. It's a smart way to acknowledge that kids — the ones onstage and in the seats — have the best imaginations.” - Carmela Full of Wishes is Filled with Dreams & Heart, The StarTribune
Carmela Full of Wishes by Alvaro Saar Rios & Matt de la Peña at Children’s Theater Company
“The language throughout is vivid and beautiful, with appropriately florid monologues and razor-sharp ripostes. Couple that with vibrant direction by Tatyana-Marie Carlo - which includes a framing device that wraps the entire story within the sound stage of a telenovela -- and you have two and half hours of delightful theater…Carlo's direction, combined with the intricately beautiful set design by Patrick Lynch, constantly keeps things moving…This production is an absolutely perfect union of directorial approach and superb script, and anyone who enjoys a thoughtful, fun evening at the theater is in for a heck of a good time.” - Review: SUEÑO at Trinity Rep, BroadwayWorld
“Trinity's production — directed by the brilliant Tatyana-Marie Carlo — is over-the-top hilarious — even though there's many a dark and gory moment, and even though at its heart, the play deals with some pretty heavy existential topics — free will, destiny, gender, betrayal, assault, revenge, nature vs. nurture, fathers and sons, fathers and daughters. By staging "Sueño" on the set of a telenovela, Carlo allows — almost encourages — the audience to sit back and laugh and enjoy the wild ride instead of trying to make sense of the mayhem. The presence of the stagehands — who dart about throughout the play — helps keep things light and ridiculous.” - Trinity Rep’s Sueño is Serious Fun, The Westerly Sun
Sueño by José Rivera at Trinity Rep.
“I’d like to point out, admiringly, a few elements of Tatyana Marie-Carlo’s direction. The characters’ stage business while alone fleshes out who they are very effectively (guess who anxiously sneaks biscuits, prays, and guzzles wine; guess who sings to herself and plays the piano). The servant girl, an assistant stage manager dressed in period clothing, expands the universe of the two-hander and moves props while not disrupting the world created by the play.” - Theater Review: Behold, A Negress at Everyman Theatre, MD Theatre Guide