Drama
Education
BA, Wesleyan
MA, Ph.D., Performance Studies NYU
Biography
Cobina has been teaching theatre studies in the Drama department since 1998. Her areas of expertise include Asian performing arts, with a focus on Indonesian traditional and contemporary theatre, and 20th-century Western avant-garde theatre. Her recent publications include “Indonesian Theatre and its Double: Putu Wijaya Paints a Theatre of Mental Terror,” in
Performance of the Senses, Eds. Sally Banes and André Lepecki (Routledge 2006) and multiple entries on Southeast Asian theatre in
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. Ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 2003),
The Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre ed. Samuel Leiter (Greenwood Press, 2006), and
Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama eds. Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn (Columbia University Press, 2007). She has also published several English translations of Indonesian plays and edited, translated and wrote the introduction to
The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama,
Volume III: 1965-2000 (Lontar Foundation, forthcoming 2007). She is also a member of Teater Mandiri, based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
