Orlando Pabotoy

New York-based Orlando Pabotoy (Group 27) is an Obie-winning multidisciplinary theater artist—a director, choreographer, designer, playwright, and performer. His recent directing projects include Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Playwrights ’14) with PlayMakers Repertory Company and Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center. Pabotoy’s work in devising and creating new productions includes writing and performing Sesar, commissioned by the Ma-Yi Theater Company and directed by Richard Feldman (faculty 1987-present), and collaborating on The Object Lesson (New York Theatre Workshop, BAM, international festivals), Home (BAM, international festivals), and other projects. Pabotoy was also the movement designer for Henry VI (National Asian American Theatre Company) and Marisol (Trinity Rep). As a playwright, he has written That Beautiful Laugh and an adaptation of Goldoni’s The World in the Moon.