Catherine Coray is and Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, a Producing Affiliate with the Noor Theatre, and the founder of the Arab Voices project.
Catherine Coray has taught at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts since 1991, and has taught and collaborated with artists in Austria, Belarus, Chile, Cuba, Egypt and Lebanon. As an actor, she worked regionally and off-Broadway with directors such as Anne Bogart and Andre Gregory. She was the curator of the hotINK Festival at Tisch School of Arts and at The Lark, and was Director of The Lark Middle East-US Playwright Exchange. She curated and co-produced Arab Voices: here/there/then/now (Abu Dhabi, 2016), Arab Voices: Stories of Palestine (Beirut, 2018), and Arab Voices: Three New Dramatic Texts from Beirut and Berlin, at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in NYC (2019.) She recently produced, with Noor Theatre and the Foundation for Arab Dramatic Arts, the latest iteration of Arab Voices, Identities in Translation (Beirut, 2024.) Catherine is an Affiliate Producer with the Noor Theatre and serves on the advisory board of Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco, and on the Artistic Advisory Council of Playwrights Horizons and the Georgetown Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics Creative Core.
