Felicia Lobo
is a Brooklyn-based director, songwriter, performer and educator. As a director she specializes in horror and fantastical theatre. Her work creates visceral responses from audiences, exploring the terror and humor of our mortality. Recent projects include; GAS at Theatre Row, Pop Punk High at Le Poisson Rouge, Immersive Horror Experiences with Insomnium Theatre Company, and the development of new plays with playwrights such as Francesca Pazniokas, AJ Ditty, and Matt Minnicino. She is also a theatre educator, currently teaching at a performing arts high school in the Bronx and directing for conservatory programs such as Atlantic Acting School. Outside of her theatre work, Felicia is the frontwoman of QWAM (Brooklyn punk band), runs a YouTube channel dedicated to horror (GirlyGore), and hosts a podcast with strange stories from all over the world (Sinister Sisters). Felicia holds a BFA from NYU Tisch in Drama (Atlantic Acting School) and a Masters in Educational Theatre from CCNY.
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.
