India Kotis is a playwright and anthropologist, chiefly interested in why and how the meanings of things change.
Plays include PHILIA (James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting, Young Playwrights, Inc. National Competition); THE TANGIBLES (Playscripts); HERE BE MONSTERS (G45 Productions); and THE SECRET LIFE OF BICYCLES (The Blank), among others. Her work has been developed, produced, and recognized by The UCross Foundation, The Blank Theatre, The Tank, The Road Theatre, The Secret City at Dixon Place, The 24 Hour Plays Nationals, Young Playwrights Inc., Manhattan Repertory Theatre, G45 Productions, Rascal Arts, The Scholastic Awards, The Drama Bookshop, The Alliance for Jewish Theatre, and Downtown Art.
She has performed with Dzieci Theatre Company, and can be seen in Marjorie Prime (2017...
India Kotis is a playwright and anthropologist, chiefly interested in why and how the meanings of things change.
Plays include PHILIA (James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting, Young Playwrights, Inc. National Competition); THE TANGIBLES (Playscripts); HERE BE MONSTERS (G45 Productions); and THE SECRET LIFE OF BICYCLES (The Blank), among others. Her work has been developed, produced, and recognized by The UCross Foundation, The Blank Theatre, The Tank, The Road Theatre, The Secret City at Dixon Place, The 24 Hour Plays Nationals, Young Playwrights Inc., Manhattan Repertory Theatre, G45 Productions, Rascal Arts, The Scholastic Awards, The Drama Bookshop, The Alliance for Jewish Theatre, and Downtown Art.
She has performed with Dzieci Theatre Company, and can be seen in Marjorie Prime (2017), Cymbeline (2014), and Michael Almereyda's Hamlet. Her academic research, most recently a study of sex and gender categories in Umayyad Iberia, has been published in The Macksey Journal, of Johns Hopkins University, and The Lambda Alpha Journal. She was a contributing editor at the celebrated science literary journal Lyceum for several years, where she focused on the intersections between science and politics. Kotis's numerous accolades include the Robert L. Baker Prize in History, the Margaret Mead Award for Excellence in Anthropology, the Muriel B. Kahrl Award for studies in American Women's Culture, Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Competition, and the James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting.