Cobina Gillitt, Ph.D. is a freelance new play and production dramaturg based in New York City. Select dramaturgy credits include THE GOLEM, an original horror opera by Elizabeth Swados, DIRTY PAKI LINGERIE by Aizzah Fatima, directed by Erica Gould, MY HEART IS I THE EAST by Jessica Litwak, CLIVE by Jonathan Marc Sherman (a retelling of Bertolt Brecht’s BAAL) directed by Ethan Hawke, SPRING AWAKENING, book and lyrics by Steven Sater directed by Kenneth Noel Mitchell, and MYSELF IS IN PIECES by Kate Maracle. Cobina is also a translator of Indonesian plays into English, several of which are published in Islands of Imagination: Modern Indonesian Plays (U of Hawaii Press, 2016) and The Lontar Anthology of Indonesia Drama Vol 3: 1965-1998 (2010). She is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance at SUNY Purchase. She teaches courses on dramaturgy & translation, adapting literature for performance, Asian theatre and performance theory, and American and European 20th century avant-garde theatre theory, history, and practice. She has been a member of Jakarta-based Teater Mandiri since 1988, performing and holding workshops in Indonesia and internationally.

New play development, production dramaturgy, translation, adaptation, experimental, physical theatre

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English, Indonesian, French