Bio

Eliana Cohen-Orth is a playwright, director, and all-around theatre-maker born and raised in NYC. She previously developed Affecting Expression with Princeton University’s Lewis Center for The Arts and Kitchen Sink Theatre Company. Favorite directing projects include Jen Silverman’s The Moors, Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice and Dracula, and the first production of Emma Catherine Watkins’ Unbecoming. While studying English and Theater at Princeton University (’21), Eliana served as Artistic Director of Princeton Summer Theater and General Manager of Theatre Intime. She is the recipient of the Alan S. Downer Prize and the Francis LeMoyne Page Theater Award. When not making theatre, Eliana works as the Event Production Coordinator for The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn