2025-2026 Resident Artist at the cell
2024-2025 Drama League Next Stage Special Residency
2024-2026 Co-Facilitator of the New Georges Jam
2024 Mercury Store Directing Program
2022-2024 WP Theater Directors’ Lab
2023-2024 New Georges Jam
2022-2023 Roundabout Directors’ Group Cohort 4
2021 + 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council Grantee
2023 Puffin Foundation Grantee
2023 NYSCA Support for Artists Commission Grant
2022 + 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA Grantee
2018-2019 Civilians’ R&D Group
2018 Working Theater 5 Boroughs 1 City Initiative Commission
2015-2016 Robert Moss Directing Fellow at Playwrights’ Horizons
2015 SDC Foundation Directing Observership at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
2014 Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab
2010-2015 Working Theater Directors’ Salon Co-Curator
Dina Vovsi is a director, theatermaker, and educator. (full website coming soon!)
Dina Vovsi is a New York-based director, theatermaker, and educator. Recent projects include The Blue Parts with co-creator Liba Vaynberg (2024-25 Next Stage Special Residency at The Drama League, Working Theater 5 Boroughs 1 City Commission, and 2023 NYSCA Support for Artists Grant) and River Watchers, a site-specific, journey-based play she conceived and directed on a 14-seat Langley canoe in Newtown Creek and co-created with Dan Caffrey and Jens Rasmussen (The Motor Company, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council and Puffin Foundation Grants). She is a 2025-2026 Resident Artist at the cell for The Tusk Hunters with playwright Dan Caffrey and puppet artist Betsy Rosen, and is a co-leader of the New Georges Jam.
Dina has directed and developed new work with WP Theater, The Civilians, New Georges, Working Theater, Cape Cod Theatre Project, The Orchard Project, New Dramatists, The Bushwick Starr, and more. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and an alum of the WP Directors’ Lab, the Roundabout Directors Group, the Mercury Store Directing Lab, the Robert Moss Directing Fellowship at Playwrights Horizons, The Civilians’ R&D Group, the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, and the SDC Foundation Observership. With collaborator Dan Caffrey, she is a two-time finalist for The Civilians’ Next Forever Commission with Princeton University’s High Meadows Environmental Institute and Lewis Center for the Arts.
As an associate/assistant director, Dina has worked on Broadway, off-Broadway, and regionally with Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Spoleto Festival USA, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and more. A frequent guest director at universities, Dina also teaches directing at Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and acting at Brooklyn College's MFA Acting Graduate Program.