Orlando Pabotoy
Orlando Pabotoy is an Obie Award-winning multidisciplinary theatre artist—a director, choreographer, designer, playwright and performer—and esteemed faculty member at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he is head of the Physical Acting Intensive Lab in the Department of Drama’s New Studio on Broadway. He is also a passionate artist activist and seeks to create change through his work, both locally and abroad.
A graduate of the Juilliard School, Pabotoy is based in New York City. Recent projects include directing Everybody by Brandon Jacob Jenkins (Playmakers Rep.) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Arts Center, NYU-Abu Dhabi).
His recent work in devising and creating new productions include: writing/performing SESAR, commissioned by the Ma-Yi Theater Company and directed by Richard Feldman; collaborating in The Object Lesson (New York Theatre Workshop, BAM, various international festivals); Home (BAM, various international festivals), and other projects. He was also the Movement Designer for Henry VI (NAATCO) and Marisol (Trinity Rep). As a playwright: That Beautiful Laugh and an adaptation of Goldoni’s The World In the Moon.
His professional works in performance, direction and movement design have been seen in (selected venues): NAATCO, Ma-Yi Theater, the Public Theater, NYTW, Yale Rep., Met Opera, Kirk Douglas, the Guthrie Theater, American Airlines Theater, TFANA, the Lake Lucille Project, Salzburg Festival (Austria).
Pabotoy has worked for the following networks and studios: Comedy Central, WB, NBC, ABC.
Awards: Obie (2003), TCG Fox Fellow, et al.