Dori Robinson
DIRECTOR, PERFORMER, PLAYWRIGHT, EDUCATOR
Welcome... ...ברוכים הבאים
I am a director, playwright, performer, and educator focused on identity, heritage, and our shared stories. With my unique background as an American Israeli Jew with Egyptian roots and a Master’s degree from New York University’s Educational Theatre program, I have dedicated years to developing dynamic theatre in a variety of communities. My creative journey encompasses text-driven plays, devised ensemble theatre, magical realism, puppetry, masks, exploring gender and politics, new play development, and an enormous love of Shakespeare.
My original plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Boston, most recently The Elm Tree with my company, Alight Theater Guild, with whom I am also the co-host of the TREE SPEECH PODCAST, where we explore the nexus of our personal, historical, and cultural ties to trees. I'm proud to teach at Northeastern and Brandeis University, and am a member of SDC.
Please reach out - I look forward to many creative conversations together.
Welcome... ...ברוכים הבאים
I am a director, playwright, performer, and educator focused on identity, heritage, and our shared stories. With my unique background as an American Israeli Jew with Egyptian roots and a Master’s degree from New York University’s Educational Theatre program, I have dedicated years to developing dynamic theatre in a variety of communities. My creative journey encompasses text-driven plays, devised ensemble theatre, magical realism, puppetry, masks, exploring gender and politics, new play development, and an enormous love of Shakespeare.
My original plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Boston, most recently The Elm Tree with my company, Alight Theater Guild, with whom I am also the co-host of the TREE SPEECH PODCAST, where we explore the nexus of our personal, historical, and cultural ties to trees. I'm proud to teach at Northeastern and Brandeis University, and am a member of SDC.
Please reach out - I look forward to many creative conversations together.
Director
Art enables an experience which can inspire, heal, motivate, and fashion a common vocabulary between people despite social and geographic boundaries. I want to generate these kinds of exchanges by creating innovative stories and challenging questions. Theatre and education elicit my strongest skills: leadership, textual analysis, my concern with current events (and their past counterparts), and most of all, my ability to collaborate with an ensemble to generate visceral and immediate work. Amalgamating these skills enables me to fulfill my potential as an artist, an activist, and a person.
Let's ask challenging questions and create authentic and engaging stories together.
Playwrighting and Dramaturgy
Playwriting THE ELM TREE Alight Theater Guild
THE GREAT HARVEST * American Alliance for Theatre Educators
THE WINDOW TO BARBADOS Theatrix, New York University
(the curse of the) 7 VEILS Bailiwick Director’s Festival
MEET JOHN DOE co-adapt w/Lou Contey ◆ Shattered Globe Theatre
SIX WINGS TO ONE Brandeis University Theatre Dept.
THE PRINCIPAL STREAM Theatre Hikes
THE NAME OF A WOMAN Theatre Hikes
DRINK ME * First Foot Theatre
CRANBERRY SOLDIERS Barnstable Comedy Club
Dramaturgy
SKIN OF OUR TEETH - d. Betsy Goldman Curry College
JACK AND THE GIANT - d. Tyler Rosati Greater Boston Stage
LOBSTERGIRL - d. Weylin Symes Greater Boston Stage
IT’S NOT ABOUT MY MOTHER - d. Cassie Loverling Fresh Ink Theatre
CHRISTMAS ON THE AIR - d. Shana Gozansky Greater Boston Stage
MACBETH - d. Nancy Smithner Looking for Shakespeare, NYU
JUDGMENT AT NURENBERG* - d. Lou Contey Shattered Globe Theatre
A SEASON IN THE CONGO* - d. Brian Voelker Timeline Theatre Company
Samples forthcoming! Thanks for your patience.
Playwrighting and Dramaturgy
Educator and Consultant
Incorporating various traditional and experiential learning components, my teaching style allows students to connect with dramatic works and ideas through their minds, hearts, hands, and bodies. My techniques ranges from classical (including Greek and Elizabethan performance) to modern styles, such as Viewpoints, Poor Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, Playwriting and Ethnodrama.
Educational Theatre
PIPPIN The Young Company, Greater Boston Stage
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, co-director S. Richert The Young Company, Greater Boston Stage
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH Advanced Young Company Ensemble, GBSC
BIG LOVE, movement director Curry College
PLAY DATE, Forum Theatre Jewish Theatre Collective
INTO THE WOODS Rochelle Zell Jewish High School
THE PAJAMA GAME Rochelle Zell Jewish High School
Presentations and Guest Facilitations
Playwriting Youth Exchange Project
Dramaturgy 101 Greater Boston Stage
Political Theatre The Young Company
Performing Gender The Young Company
Forum Theater: Rehearsal for Revolution UMass Amherst Hillel, Amherst
Shakespeare’s First Folio: Breathe Jewish Theatre Collective
Text Analysis: Backwards and Forwards New York University, New York, NY
What is Your Will? Dramaturgy and Shakespeare Looking for Shakespeare-NYU
Playwriting: Making a Character Payomet Performing Arts Center
Ragtime and the Immigrant Experience Kidz Theatre, New York, NY
More about my teaching philosophy and classes I've taught forthcoming. Thanks for your patience, and come back soon!