Arin Arbus

Arin Arbus is a director.

2022 productions include THE MERCHANT OF VENICE for Theater for a New Audience (TFANA) and Shakespeare Theatre of DC; LA TRAVIATA for Canadian Opera Company (8 Dora Award nominations).

In 2019, she made her Broadway debut directing Terrence McNally’s FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE (Tony nomination for Best Revival) starring six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald and two-time Oscar nominee, Michael Shannon.

For a decade Arbus served as associate artistic director at TFANA — an off-broadway company whose mission is to develop and vitalize the performance of Shakespeare and other great dramatic works. At TFANA she directed productions of OTHELLO, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, MACBETH, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, KING LEAR, THE WINTER'S TALE, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, Wilder’s THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (Obie Award), and repertory productions of Strindberg’s THE FATHER and Ibsen’s A DOLL'S HOUSE.

For Houston Grand Opera she has directed Britten’s RAPE OF LUCRETIA and LA TRAVIATTA, which she also directed at The Chicago Lyric Opera and COC.

Arbus spent several years making theatre with prisoners at a medium security prison in upstate New York in association with Rehabilitation Through the Arts. In 2018, she directed an Arabic adaptation of The Tempest, performed by refugees in a camp in Greece for Campfire Project.

She has directed productions and taught courses at The Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, NYU Grad Acting, Columbia University and The New School. She was a Drama League Directing Fellow, a Princess Grace Award Recipient, a Samuel H. Scripps Award Recipient, and a member of Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab.