Bio

Eliana Cohen-Orth is a director, playwright, producer, and educator from NYC. Her work explores queerness, gender, claustrophobic spaces, and complex communities. She loves to combine historical and speculative elements to explore contemporary questions and has an affinity for anachronism, shadow play, and ensemble storytelling.

 Directing credits include Nice Fish (ACC Theater), her play Jungle Restaurant (Caveat NYC), Kate Hamill’s Dracula (Princeton Summer Theater), Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice (Princeton Summer Theater), Jen Silverman’s The Moors (Theatre Intime), Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice (Theatre Intime), and Emma Watkins’ Unbecoming (The Lewis Center for the Arts). Workshops of her play Affecting Expression were produced at The Tank and at Princeton University. Most recently, she produced a new solo show, Polin, and served as the assistant director and associate producer on Oklahoma Samovar, which premiered at La MaMa in December.