Felicia Lobo
Felicia Lobo is a Costa Rican American director, musician, performer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her genre-defying work confronts our greatest fears with a punk-rock sensibility. She is the 2026 Drama League Special Projects Directing Fellow and a 2026/27 Ars Nova Artist in Residence. Recent directing credits include Everyone's Seen My Tits (Edinburgh Fringe; Rolling Stone UK 5-star pick), Technocelibites (ALAB Theatre Festival), Wood Demon (East Village Basement), & Snow Dance (East Village Basement). She has developed new work with playwrights at New York Stage and Film, The Brick, Judson Church, The Tank, Pipeline Theatre, Parsnip Ship, and The Flea. She currently serves as the resident director at New Orange Theatre Company. As a musician, she is the frontwoman of Brooklyn punk band QWAM and writes music for film and commercials. BFA: NYU Tisch. MA: Educational Theatre, CCNY. Colt Coeur Company Member. SDC Associate Member. felicialobo.com
If you got through the polished stuff…feel free to read this part.
I’ve always felt more at home in dark dusty theaters than anywhere else. I am deeply invested in live performance and fear it’s our last avenue left for genuine connection. When I was 14, I sat in the front row of a community theatre production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. A few minutes in, the performer spit his beer into the audience, and I felt alive for maybe the first time. Like a light switched on in the deep recesses of my soul. We are here. In this room. Your spit is on my face.
Looking back on my work, that’s what I’m always chasing (without the spit). I want to give audiences that moment of awe. Or a moment of clarity. Or a moment that makes them feel so human, it’s like magic.
When the bad days come, all I long to do is go into a dark room, turn my phone off and feel something. Theatre has always done that for me. Theatre has done everything for me.
