​Bobbin Ramsey (she/her) is a theatre & film director dedicated to telling complex stories about the beautiful messiness of human existence. Through bold visuals, an investment in community, and stories of compassion, Bobbin aims to create a more just, connected, and joyful world through art. She focuses on telling stories that invite and insists audiences to view the world with more empathy and a critical eyes towards the the systems that oppress us. Her works has been described as magical, bold, political, and bizarre (in a good way). 

Bobbin has spent the last decade building a career surrounding devised work and new plays, as well as urgent productions of classics. She has premiered over ten new plays between in time on the West and East coast, and deeply values the collaborative relationship between director and playwright. Bobbin is currently earning her MFA in Directing from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. 

While in graduate school she has directed Doug Robinson's Cactus Queen, Suzan-Lori Parks' Fucking A, an original adaptation of Macbeth, Stefani Kuo’s WAKE in the Langston Hughes Festival, and Form One as a part of the New Play Lab, also written by Kuo. Other notable projects include The Betrayal Project, an original devised piece based on interviews about people's personal experiences with betrayal; UDO by Nomè SiDone and Abigail Onwunali, and Arlington by Enda Walsh the Yale Cabaret; Dance Nation by Clare Barron, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch and the world premiere of Susan Soon-He Stanton’s The Things Are Against Us with 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, Men on Boats and Peter and the Starcatcher with Cornish College of the Arts; an original devised musical piece tilted The Great Noise at On the Boards; and staged readings and workshops with The Lark, ACT Theatre, The Seattle Art Museum, Macha Productions, Taproot Theatre Company, Annex Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and New Century Theatre Company. 

While in Seattle, Bobbin was the Associate Artistic Director with the Washington Ensemble Theatre and a founding Artistic Producer of a site-specific and experimental theatre company, The Horse in Motion. Last year, Bobbin wrote and directed her first short film, BACKCOUNTRY, which is currently screening at film festivals around the country. She is an alumna of the SDC Observership Program, and a winner of a Seattle Times Footlight Award. Bobbin graduated with her BA in Drama: Performance and Creative Writing from the University of Washington where she received the Donal Harrington Memorial Prize.

Upcoming: ENRON by Lucy Prebble at the Atlantic Theater School, October 2024

Photos by Ella Pennington.