Masha Obolensky

Masha Obolensky is a director, playwright and performer. She has written and directed several original performance pieces, which have been presented in New York City by La Mama E.T.C., New Georges, Here Arts Center, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Access Theatre, and The Director’s Collective. Her play Not Enough Air was presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education/Women in Theatre Conference in Chicago as the recipient of the 2006 Jane Chambers Award. It also was awarded First Prize by Boston Theatre Works and was presented in their 2005 Unbound Festival of New Plays. As an actor, Obolensky has worked with many theater companies in New York and regionally, including New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama E.T.C., Target Margin, Mabou Mines, The Culture Project, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Minnesota Shakespeare Company and Austin Arts Center. Her most recent directing credits include a reading of Dano Madden's Beautiful American Soldier for Boston Theatre Works, Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening for Emerson Stage, Coming Together for the 2005 Cambodian Expressions Festival, The Bug Opera for a tour across New England, and A Thousand Cranes at 59 East 59th Street Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it was nominated for a Total Theatre Award. Obolensky is on the theater faculty at The Boston Conservatory and at Middlesex Community College and is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Boston University.