- World of Wires Premieres at The Kitchen January 6, 2012 : Tickets Here
- Scheib named 2011 Guggenheim Fellow!
- Scheib to Direct a new dance theater work with choreographer Yin Mei and the Hong Kong Dance Company, March 16, 2012
World of Wires
World Premiere: January 6, 2012 at The Kitchen: Tickets Here
MUTATIONS OF THE AVANT GARDE
2 October 2011: Usine C, Montreal, presentation on SImulated Cities/Simulated Systems
FIDELIO, opera by Beethoven
01/29/11: Saarlandisches Staatstheater, Saarbruecken
BELLONA, DESTROYER OF CITIES, play after Samuel R. Delany's novel Dhalgren
17, 18, 19 March 2011: Maison des Arts / Cretéil : (Paris) France
13, 14, 15 May 2011: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
A HOUSE IN BALI, opera by Evan Ziporyn
October 8-9, 2010: Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston
October 14-16, 2010: BAM Next Wave Festival, New York City
PUNTILA UND SEIN KNECHT MATTI, play by Brecht
Dates TBA 2010: Theater Augsburg, Augsburg Germany
Jay Scheib directs The American Academy in Rome CABARET
10/ 26/10 Curated by Laurie Anderson.
2011 Guggenheim Fellow, Scheib is a Writer, director and designer of plays, operas, and installations. His work has been presented throughout Europe and the U.S. He is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a frequent Guest Professor for Acting and Directing at both the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and the Norwegian Theater Academy in Fredrikstad. Based dually in Cambridge and New York, Scheib's recent works include a mulitmedia staging of Evan Ziporyn's new opera A House in Bali as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, a sold- out run of Bellona, Destroyer of Cities at The Kitchen in New York, Beethoven's Fidelio at the Saarlandisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, and a new production of Bertolt Brecht's Puntila und Sein Knecht Matti at Theater Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
SIMULATED CITIES / SIMULATED SYSTEMS
World of Wires, after the SciFi TV Series by Fassbinder
Premieres January 6, 2012 at The Kitchen (World of Wires Press Release Here)
In development is a trilogy of hybrid performance works under the banner, Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. All three have been developed In residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) premiered at Performance Space 122 (April 2008) in New York followed by performances at the Hungarian National Theater, Budapest; Bellona Destroyer of Cities played a sold out run at The Kitchen (April 2010) and was presented as part of the Maison des Arts Cretéil (MAC) Exit Festival in Paris followed by a run at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, (May 2011) ; Part 3, World of Wires will premiere at The Kitchen January 6, 2012. Envisioned as an ongoing series of collaborations across disciplines, Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems flows an exchange of ideas with aerospace and astronautics, architecture and conceptual civil engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence.
A House in Bali Bellona, Destroyer of Cities Puntila und sein Knecht Matti Addicted to Bad Ideas, Peter Lorre's 20th Century Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) This Place is a Desert, The Power of Darkness Draußen tobt die Dunkelziffer Mozart Luster Lustik Herakles Persona World of Wires Fidelio Women Dreamt Horses |
Bambiland MargarethHamlet Kommander Kobayashi Our Town Lorenzaccio The Demolition Downlown The Making of Americans The Vomit Talk of Ghosts West Pier In This is the End of Sleeping The Medea Falling and Waving The War Plays
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We greatly appreciate the support of all the individuals and institutions listed above. Donors are listed in alphabetical order and not separated by amounts. Please consider contributing to the productions of Jay Scheib and Tanya Selvaratnam. Your name will be added to the list above or you may choose to remain anonymous.
If you are interested in being a contributor next season, please contact jayscheib@jayscheib.com
Producer of Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems
Tanya Selvaratnam, 1.917. 754.4179
tselvar@aol.com
Press Contact:
Blake Zidell & Associates
tel: 718.643.9052
fax: 718.643.9502
blake@blakezidell.com
Worldwide Tour Representation:
(Untitled Mars, Addicted to Bad Ideas,and Bellona)
Thomas O. Kriegsmann, President
ArKtype, P.O. Box 1948; New York, NY 10027
http://www.arktype.org, 1.917.386.5468
tommy@arktype.org
for A House in Bali:
Kenny Savelson, Executive Director
Bang on a Can, 80 Hanson Place, Suite 701
Brooklyn, NY 11217 USA, tel: +1 718.852.7755
fx: +1 718.852.7732, kenny@bangonacan.org
www.bangonacan.org
Jay Scheib, jayscheib@jayscheib.com, 1.917.612.2137