Tatiana Suarez-Pico

Tatiana Suarez-Pico

Tatiana Suarez-Pico is a writer and an actress. As an actress she has performed extensively in New York City. Tatiana began her career as a freelance writer for publications around NYC. She also co-created BodegaAve.com, a webcomic that centered on multicultural teens living in Brooklyn, NY for which she received a “Groundbreaking Latina” Award from Catalina Magazine. Residencies, fellowships, and other awards...
Tatiana Suarez-Pico is a writer and an actress. As an actress she has performed extensively in New York City. Tatiana began her career as a freelance writer for publications around NYC. She also co-created BodegaAve.com, a webcomic that centered on multicultural teens living in Brooklyn, NY for which she received a “Groundbreaking Latina” Award from Catalina Magazine. Residencies, fellowships, and other awards include: Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program Fellow at The Juilliard School, Dramatists Guild fellow, Mary Louise Rockwell Scholar at ESPA/Primary Stages, MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at The Kennedy Center, New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater Season on a residency sponsored by the Dramatists Guild, and is a member of the SPACE on Ryder Farm’s 2014 season. She has been a finalist for the Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Writers and the Old Vic's 2013 US/UK TS Eliot Exchange, among others. Her short play "Cravings" was produced by Piper Theater Company in 2012 and will be published in their anthology "Piper Plays: Smart Plays for Young Actors." Two of her short plays were also published in 2013 by indietheaternow.com. Other works include The Mystery Spot, Like Water, Profit, LRTC, 443, Flesh & Blood, Dog Day, Mountain Air, and She. Tatiana is currently a staff writer on NBC’s PARENTHOOD. MFA, Actors Studio Drama School/New School University.

Plays

  • Women CEO Play (WORKING TITLE) by Tatiana Suarez-Pico
    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    Mattie is a CEO whose company is a sinking ship, Tania, her hotshot sister, wants to “help her,” Raina wants Mattie’s company to increase her profits, and Arianne wants to help her friend Mattie as long as she doesn’t have to risk anything. In the world of business, winning is everything, but how do you win when the game is rigged, the odds are against you, and the world doesn’t think you can hack it? The high-...
    Mattie is a CEO whose company is a sinking ship, Tania, her hotshot sister, wants to “help her,” Raina wants Mattie’s company to increase her profits, and Arianne wants to help her friend Mattie as long as she doesn’t have to risk anything. In the world of business, winning is everything, but how do you win when the game is rigged, the odds are against you, and the world doesn’t think you can hack it? The high-powered world of business has always been personal, no matter how you look at it. A play about women, power, and what it takes to make it.
  • The Mystery Spot by Tatiana Suarez-Pico
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Connie's life quietly collects dust when her son, Max, arrives from New York unannounced with bruised knuckles and a wounded heart. Connie doesn't want to kick him out (he just arrived), but she doesn't want him to stay, but she just can't say that. Soon after that, Connie's sister arrives from New York looking to recruit Max for her client, or at least that what she says. It's not...
    Connie's life quietly collects dust when her son, Max, arrives from New York unannounced with bruised knuckles and a wounded heart. Connie doesn't want to kick him out (he just arrived), but she doesn't want him to stay, but she just can't say that. Soon after that, Connie's sister arrives from New York looking to recruit Max for her client, or at least that what she says. It's not that they're not honest with each other, it's just that reality is sometimes too much to bear.
  • LIKE WATER by Tatiana Suarez-Pico
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    Aurora’s mom is sick, her aunt has no patience, and she has to go on the trains to sing for money because that’s what Romani children do– they help the family. But Aurora is no ordinary Romani girl, she wants more out of life, she wants an education. And when the cops catch her jumping the subway turnstiles with her friend Daniel, she begins questioning her allegiance to her culture and her family’s loyalty to tradition.
  • PROFIT by Tatiana Suarez-Pico
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    Ana and Ben have maintained their bar & restaurant, "The Midnight Orchid," afloat since their parents died in a tragic accident four years ago. However, Ana has been lying to her younger brother Ben about the stability of their finances and soon enough the lies come crashing down as the bank proceeds on a motion to foreclose them. Ana has decided that she will fight to keep her parents legacy but...
    Ana and Ben have maintained their bar & restaurant, "The Midnight Orchid," afloat since their parents died in a tragic accident four years ago. However, Ana has been lying to her younger brother Ben about the stability of their finances and soon enough the lies come crashing down as the bank proceeds on a motion to foreclose them. Ana has decided that she will fight to keep her parents legacy but all the odds are against her, especially in a country undergoing a mortgage crisis. How far will Ana go to keep her home?
  • FLESH & BLOOD by Tatiana Suarez-Pico
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    In Brooklyn, factories thrive as they hire undocumented workers and skimp on benefits. Luckily for Cala and Evaristo, they work at one of the most successful business on the block: “CINTEO” - Abundio’s tortilla factory. One night, while Cala and Abundio have sex in his office at the tortilla factory, Evaristo gruesomely dies in the room next door. Abundio tries to cover up the real cause of Evaristo’s death...
    In Brooklyn, factories thrive as they hire undocumented workers and skimp on benefits. Luckily for Cala and Evaristo, they work at one of the most successful business on the block: “CINTEO” - Abundio’s tortilla factory. One night, while Cala and Abundio have sex in his office at the tortilla factory, Evaristo gruesomely dies in the room next door. Abundio tries to cover up the real cause of Evaristo’s death forcing Cala to choose between her loyalty to Abundio and her sense of what’s right. Their lives unravel as Abundio slowly realizes that Evaristo’s death has awakened something unexpected in Cala– a desire for justice.
  • The Anatomy of an Accent by Tatiana Suarez-Pico
    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Cari, a Mexican-born 15-year old, has been in United States for almost three years and has been talking to her dead mom for almost as long. Fed up with the racism she has experienced in Ohio, she questions her dad's choice to move to the States. While Cari acts out having sex and smoking pot, Manny, her dad, spends his mornings with aunt Lottie, her mom's sister and his brother's ex. Soon Cari...
    Cari, a Mexican-born 15-year old, has been in United States for almost three years and has been talking to her dead mom for almost as long. Fed up with the racism she has experienced in Ohio, she questions her dad's choice to move to the States. While Cari acts out having sex and smoking pot, Manny, her dad, spends his mornings with aunt Lottie, her mom's sister and his brother's ex. Soon Cari and her dad’s secrets surface, forcing the family members to own up to their mistakes, let go of the past, and try to accept themselves for who they are.