DARA MALINA
Photo Credit: A Silver Photography
Dara Malina is a director of theatre, opera, performance art, and video. Her personal practice interrogates abjection, gender, violence, discomfort and comedy. Most recently, she directed TROUBLE IN MIND by Alice Childress with students at Barnard College. Often working on new plays, she collaborated with Amanda Horowitz on the development of her play, HEAVENLY FOOLS, under the guise of the Rutgers University MFA Playwriting program. Dara completed the 22/23 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship developing COACH COACH by playwright Bailey Williams and directing the workshop production in Winterworks 2023. She directed Alexis Roblan’s SAMUEL, a critically-acclaimed audio play/walk-through experience at The Tank, which Vulture’s Helen Shaw called, “deliciously lurid.” Also working in opera, Dara directed the world premiere of THE ARTWORK OF THE FUTURE, a new opera by Eric Moe and Rob Handel at HERE. Dara has worked as a guest director and educator at Rutgers University, Ramapo College, LIU-Post, Pace University, Montclair State, and Alfred University. She is currently working with frequent collaborator, singer-songwriter Lacy Rose on her next music video. MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts. Member: Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges Affiliated Artist.
