IAMA Staff
Cara Greene Epstein, Executive Director
CARA GREENE EPSTEIN isn’t a doctor, but she has played one on TV. A writer/producer, actor and passionate arts educator, Cara has worked with theater companies from coast to coast, including The Old Globe, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Writer’s Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theatre Company, Epic Theatre Ensemble, People’s Light and the American Theater Wing. Her viral TED Talk How Theater Weathers Wars, Outlasts Empires, and Survives Pandemics (1M+ views) focuses on how we can use the arts to build a more just, representative, and beautiful world together, onstage and off.
Cara wrote and co-directed the award-winning feature film Dragonfly, currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Additional TV and film work includes Chicago Med, Sky Burial, Chaos Theory, and They’re Out of the Business. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Fellow and a Sundance Writers Lab finalist.
Cara holds an honors degree in Theater Arts from Cornell University, an MFA in Acting from The Old Globe/USD, an MFA in Television and Screenwriting from Stephens College and is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA. You might also want to ask her about motherhood, competitive swimming, and how to portage a 75lbs canoe through the wilderness.