IAMA Staff
Cara Greene Epstein, Executive Director
CARA GREENE EPSTEIN (she/her) isn’t a doctor, but she has played one on TV. As a theatre-maker, Cara has worked with theater companies from coast to coast, including The Old Globe, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, New York Theatre Workshop, and the American Theater Wing. Cara wrote and co-directed the award-winning feature film Dragonfly, currently streaming on Amazon Prime, and is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Fellow.
In her viral TED Talk How Theater Weathers Wars, Outlasts Empires, and Survives Pandemics (1M+ views), Cara focuses on how we can use the arts to build a better world together, onstage and off. She holds an honors degree in Theater Arts from Cornell University, an MFA from The Old Globe/USD, and is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA.
