Tatjana Motta (Venezia, 1988) earned her degree in Visual and Performing Arts from the IUAV University in Venice and, subsequently, her Master in Dramaturgy from the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan.  Her graduation demonstration, the play Tutto a fuoco, debuted at the Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan, in the first edition of Teste Inedite series. In October 2017 she wrote the microdrama I palazzi esplodono, Edgar compra la dinamite which was staged for Metropolis – Promised Lands, a project supported by Fondazione Milano. In the same year she was a finalist at the 12th Premio Riccione Tondelli with her play Nessuno ti darà del ladro. Since April 2018 she has been part of Playstorm, the permanent dramaturgy workshop of the Teatro Stabile in Torino, conceived and directed by Fausto Paravidino. In 2019 she was among the authors selected by ATS Beyond the Sud (Betsud) for a residency at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in collaboration with the international exchange program Complexo Sul di Complexo Duplo. Currently she is among the finalists for a research scholarship for the Betsud project 2020, created in collaboration with El Cultural San Martin (Buenos Aires, Argentina), INAE (Montevideo, Uruguay), Fundación Teatro a Mil (Santiago, Chile), and Teatro Technis Karolos Koun (Athens, Greece). She won the 55th Premio Riccione per il Teatro 2019 with her play Notte Bianca. She lives in Milan.