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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 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 is currently working with Noor Theatre and the Foundation for Arab Dramatic Arts on the next iteration of Arab Voices, to take place in Beirut, Sept 2024. Catherine is a Producing Affiliate with the Noor Theatre, and serves on the advisory boards of several institutions, including The Georgetown Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics Think Tank, Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco, and the Artistic Advisory Council of Playwrights Horizons.