About

Here's what I've got going on:

March 2025: Associate director on Julius Caesar at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Photo by Ella Pennington.

Hi! It's nice to meet you! 

Here's a little bit about how I think about art:
As an artist, I aim to illuminate the realities of our lives through the exploration of the strange, the absurd, the magical, and the horrific. Using camp, spectacle, and impossibility, I create spaces where audiences can unpack the painful and frightening elements of our world through a circumstantial distance and investment in imagination. For me, theater has been proved to be uniquely suited to activating the unfamiliar and the wondrous to create experiences of self love, communal healing, and collective empathy. My artistry is oriented toward action – the idea that we have a responsibility to care for each other, and that our systems are a reflection of the world we are capable of imagining together, whether beautiful or destructive. These stories can be painful, but within the painful and the brutal, we get to witness the incredible resilience of humanity and our capacities for hope. I frequently gravitate towards stories of children, teenagers, and growing up, as I think that youth on the precipice is an incredible tool for understanding our world.  My work has been described as magical, bold, political, and bizarre (in a good way).

Here's a little bit about what I've done:
I have spent the last decade building a career surrounding devised work and new plays, as well as urgent productions of classics. New work and world premieres include Doug Robinson's Cactus Queen, Stefani Kuo's Wake (The School of Drama at Yale) The Betrayal Project a devised project with Stefani Kuo and UDO by Abigail Onwunali and Nomé SiDone (The Yale Cabaret), The Things are Against Us by Susan Soon He Stanton (Washington Ensemble Theatre), devised projects BrechtFest, The Great Noise, ...And Hilarity Ensues...(The Horse in Motion), and staged readings and workshops with The Lark, ACT Theatre, The Seattle Art Museum, among others.

Other notable projects include  Suzan-Lori Parks' Fucking A and an original adaptation of Macbeth at the Drama at Yale, Arlington by Enda Walsh the Yale Cabaret; Dance Nation by Clare Barron, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch and Jennifer Haley's The Nether at Washington Ensemble Theatre; The Arsonists by Max Frisch, Wellesley Girl by Brendan Pelsue, and Attempts on her Life by Martin Crimp  with The Horse in Motion; Waiting for Godot with Arts on the Waterfront. Last year, Bobbin wrote and directed her first short film, BACKCOUNTRY, which is currently screening at film festivals around the country.

Bobbin was the Associate Artistic Director with the Washington Ensemble Theatre and a founding Artistic Director of a site-specific and experimental theatre company, The Horse in Motion. She is an alumna of the SDCF Observership Program, a winner of a Seattle Times Footlight Award, and the recipient of the Donal Harrington Memorial Award in Directing. She has been a finalist for the following: Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, WP Theater Writer/Director Lab, New Georges Jam. MFA: David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. SDC Associate Member.