Roberta Levitow has directed over 50 productions in NYC, LA and nationally, with a particular emphasis on developing original writing and new American work.  In 2004 she co-founded Theatre Without Borders, an informal group supporting international theatre exchange at www.theatrewithoutborders.com and became co-director of the TWB/Coexistence International at Brandeis University "Theatre & Peace Building Initiative".  She was a member of the Creative Team that created BENEDICTUS by Motti Lerner - a collaboration of Iranian, Israeli and US artists. International work includes: Artistic Associate, Sundance Institute East Africa's 5-Year Initiative 2008-2012; Co-Designer, “Eti! East Africa Speaks!”, co-sponsored by Dartmouth College, 651 ARTS/Africa Exchange and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Graduate Center CUNY, July 2008; Workshop leader, “New Writing in East Africa’’, TCG/ITI New Generations International Fellowship, Oct 2007; Fulbright Specialist in the Department of Music, Dance and Drama at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Sept 2006; Project Director, "After the Fall: Reality and the New Romanian Theatre" in New York City, July 2006; Co-coordinator of the Cal Arts symposium ARTS IN THE ONE WORLD: A Consideration of Genocide, Jan 2006; Workshop leader of the Sept 2005 "Training Trainers" Workshop in Bistritza, Romania; Participant in the “African Playwrights Conference”, University of Iowa, Sept 2004; Leader of “How to Write Something New” Workshop in Bistritza/Colibitza, Romania, Aug 2004; Fulbright Specialist at The National University of Theatre & Film, Bucharest, Romania, March/April 2004; Fulbright Specialist Artist-in-Residence at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 2003; the American Honoree at the 15th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre, 2003; leader of the “East African Theatre Workshop” in Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania and “The Three Continents Workshop” at the Warsaw Theatre Academy, Poland (sponsored by the Center for International Theatre Development and IIE/Ford Foundation East Africa Office.) Accomplishments and writings featured in The New York Times, AMERICAN THEATRE Magazine, Theatre in Crisis: Performance Manifestos for a New Century, ROUNDUP (The League of Professional Theatre Women Quarterly), The South Atlantic Quarterly, and Writing the World: On Globalization.  Participation in national service organizations includes Advisory Board, Coexistence International at Brandeis University; Board of Directors, The IGSC – Rwanda (Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center); Peer Panel for the N.E.A., the Executive Board of SSDC (The Society of Stages Directors and Choreographers) and the Executive Board of TCG (Theatre Communications Group).  She was the recipient of TCG’s Alan Schneider Award for directorial excellence in 1992. A Visiting Professor at Bennington College from 2000-2005, she taught from 1990-2000 as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at U.C.L.A. Education: BA in Drama, Stanford University, 1972; AFI Directing Workshop for Women; Otis College of Art & Design.